among logicians, one of the modes of the second figure of syllogisms; the minor proposition of which is an universal affirmative, and the other two universal negatives: thus,

CE No immoral books ought to be read; SA But every obscene book is immoral; RE Therefore no obscene books ought to be read.

**CECENA**, a town of Romagna in Italy, with a bishop's see, subject to the pope, and seated on the river Savio, in E. Long. 12° 46' N. Lat. 44° 8'.

**CESPITOSÆ PLANTÆ** (from *cespit*, turf or sod), are those plants which produce many stems from one root, and thence form a close thick carpet on the surface of the earth.

**CESPITOSÆ Paludes**, turf-bogs.