Vocabulary : Sanscrit to Santalaceous
Sanscrit : See Sanskrit.Sans-culotte : A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons. ;; Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.
Sans-culottic : Pertaining to, or involving, sans-culottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.
Sans-culottism : Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
Sanskrit : The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda. ;; Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
