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The act of passing from one country to another; migration.

por; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration. Cudworth.

The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc. Paley.

The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.

Suspicious; captious; disposed to take umbrage. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Unregeneracy.

The quality or state of being unsaturated.

The act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation. [R.]

by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations. We find a secret awe and veneration for one who moves about us in regular and illustrious course of virtue. Addison.

The act of verberating; a beating or striking. Arbuthnot.

endulum or musical string. As a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Longfellow.

lame. When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him. Donne.

vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice. Violent gesture and vociferation naturally shake the hearts of the ignorant. Spectator. Plaintive strains succeeding the vociferations of emotion or of pain. Byron.

The act of wounding, or the state of being wounded. [Obs.]

A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.

conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.…

Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

ss matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

Containing abjuration.