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Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.

nything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to Ant: good. Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. Milton. The evil that men do lives after them. Shak.

arent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

s, an ex parte statement. Ex parte application, one made without notice or opportunity to oppose. -- Ex parte council, one that assembles at the request of only one of the parties in dispute. -- Ex parte hearing or evidence (Law), that which is had or taken by one side or party in the absence of the other. Hearings b…

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.

Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.

ducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.

h prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy. Lubbock.

Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous. Owen. Exogenous aneurism (Med.), an aneurism which is produced by causes acting from without, as from injury.

ids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

e to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret. The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. De Quincey.

Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; -- opposed to endothermic.

to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to Ant: contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.

ce, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists. Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.

ngs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration.

from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.

he person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.