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Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles. "The muscular motion." Arbuthnot.

The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. A nation is the unity of a people. Coleridge. Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. F. S. Key.

The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.

A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

s to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary. [R.] The triple and novene division ran throughout. Milman.

es, also, in Reid. Subjective is used by William of Occam to denote that which exists independent of mind; objective, what is formed by the mind. This shows what is meant by realitas objectiva in Descartes. Kant and Fichte have inverted the meanings. Subject, with them, is the mind which knows; object, that which is kn…

A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.

, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.

into the water; as, to fall overboard. To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend.

ull orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.

One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preëxistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian. -- Pa`tri*pas"sian*ism, n.

The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.

An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant. Sir W. Scott.

Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. Shak. "The pendulous round earth. Milton.

Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous. Bacon. The long, pensile branches of the birches. W. Howitt.

One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Milton. Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital. Macaulay.

Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies. Huxley.