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urderer fell, and blood atoned for blood. Pope. The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius.

The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.

Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition. The chillest of social atmospheres. Hawthorne.

hose piston descends by the pressure of the atmosphere, when the steam which raised it is condensed within the cylinder. Tomlinson. -- Atmospheric line (Steam Engin.), the equilibrium line of an indicator card. Steam is expanded "down to the atmosphere" when its pressure is equal to that of the atmosphere. (See Indica…

A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation. [Obs.] He lived from all attainder of suspect. Shak. Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.

false verdict. [Obs.] Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone.

ve rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and…

ntain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.

An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.

, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine…

oming from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.

From a state or condition of being; out of existence. Be near me when I fade away. Tennyson.

The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata.

is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 196,220.) It is etymologically related to p , v , f , w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and…

The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

A support or resource in reserve. This project Should have a back or second, that might hold, If this should blast in proof. Shak.