One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who
look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second
Adventists.
A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in co...