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To deprive of existence; to annihilate. Who can uncreate thee, thou shalt know. Milton.

Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl.

We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.

Belief in the existence of vampires.

fact; as, the virtual presence of a man in his agent or substitute. A thing has a virtual existence when it has all the conditions necessary to its actual existence. Fleming. To mask by slight differences in the manners a virtual identity in the substance. De Quincey. Principle of virtual velocities (Mech.), the law th…

Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence. [Obs.] In one grain of corn, there lieth dormant a virtuality of many other. Sir T. Browne.

an affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world. One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be my surety. S…

The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. Shak. Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned…

Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world.