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563 words match “MISSION”

HUMILITY n.
An act of submission or courtesy. With these humilities they satisfied the young king. Sir J. Davies.
HUSBANDAGE n.
The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
IDIOPLASMA n.
h is the seat of all active changes, and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm.
ILLIMITED a.
minable. Bp. Hall. -- Il*lim"it*ed*ness, n. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon.
IMPALE v.
coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention. Ordered the admission of St. Patrick to the same to be matched and impaled with the blessed Virgin in the honor thereof. Fuller.
IN adv.
Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at o…
INDEED adv.
Denoting concession or admission; as, indeed, you are right. (c) Denoting surprise; as, indeed, is it you Its meaning is not intrinsic or fixed, but depends largely on the form of expression which it accompanies.
INDIRECT a.
or remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and supplied by Great Britain. -- Indirect demonstration, a mode of demonstration in which proof is given by showing tha…
INDUCE v.
To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.
INDULGENCE n.
Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the churc…
INFLUX n.
A coming in; infusion; intromission; introduction; importation in abundance; also, that which flows or comes in; as, a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver. The influx of food into the Celtic region, however, was far from keeping pace with the influx of consumers. Macaulau. The general…
INHERITANCE n.
Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
INITIATION n.
uced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order. Silence is the first thing that is taught us at our initiation into sacred mysteries. Broome.
INSTALLATION n.
ccessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.
INTENSION n.
ss; fervency. Jer. Taylor. Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind. Bacon.
INTERMITTENCE n.
Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall.
INTERMITTENTLY adv.
With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.
INTERMITTINGLY adv.
With intermissions; at intervals. W. Montagu.
INTERPAUSE n.
An intermission. [R.]
INTERPOLATE v.
To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.] Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.
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