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(b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting
of the sun, the zenith and nadir. -- Cardinal
signs (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and
Capricorn. -- Cardinal teeth
(Zoöl.), the central teeth of bivalve shell. See
Bivalve. -- Cardinal veins
(Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run
each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the
heart. They remain through life in some fishes. --
Cardinal virtues, preëminent virtues;
among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and
fortitude. -- Cardinal winds, winds
which blow from the cardinal points due north, south, east, or
west.

Car"di*nal, n. [F. carinal,
It. cardinale, LL. cardinalis (ecclesiæ
Romanæ). See Cardinal, a.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) One of the
ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the
sacred college.

The clerics of the supreme Chair are called
Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the
hinge by which all things are moved.

Pope Leo IX.

&fist; The cardinals are appointed by the pope.

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