(Novitiate spirits are men newly deceased, who are called spirits, because they are then spiritual men.)

NATURAL SELECTION, name given by Darwin to the survival of certain plants and animals that are fitted, and the decease contemporaneously of certain others that are not fitted, to a new environment.

Each head represented a victim of the (happily) deceased one's ferocity.

M. le Comte de Naquet, her first husband, who had been declared drowned at sea, and therefore officially deceased by Royal decree, was not dead at all.