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Want of effect, or of power to produce the effect; inefficacy.

power or energy sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.

ce, if they attend. Attebury. The principle which influenced their obedience has lost its efficacy. Rogers.

To hinder; to destroy; as, to infringe efficacy; to infringe delight or power. [Obs.] Hooker.

Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.

Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.

Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.

Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. [Obs.] Holland.

Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.

To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system. I. Taylor.

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

sical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence. "Drugs of potency." Hawthorne. A place of potency and away o' the state. Shak.

The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.

st priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.

Prevalence; superior influence; efficacy. [Obs.] Shak.

Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious. Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title. Sir W. Raleigh.

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.

One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.

To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. Bouvier.

Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.