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98 words match “SPENCE”

DIETETICS n.
of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.
DISCHARGE v.
city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer.
DROP v.
words drop from the lips. Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. H. Spencer. When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. Bryant.
ELEMENTARY a.
r, water, earth, fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region." J. Spencer.
EMPIRIC; EMPIRICAL a.
age carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer.
ESSENTIAL a.
a general Than courage. Denham. How to live -- that is the essential question for us. H. Spencer.
EXPERT v.
To experience. [Obs.] Die would we daily, once it to expert. Spencer.
EXTRA a.
, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay. "By working extra hours." H. Spencer.
FACTOR n.
te to produce a result; a constituent. The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition. H. Spencer.
FAIN v.
To be glad ; to wish or desire. [Obs.] Whoso fair thing does fain to see. Spencer.
FALL v.
ow the matter will fall. Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. H. Spencer.
FAMILY n.
e organization of society. The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society. H. Spencer.
FASHION n.
l regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer.
HALFEN a.
Wanting half its due qualities. [Obs.] Spencer.
HETAIRISM; HETARISM n.
sed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common. H. Spencer. -- Het`a*ris"tic, a.
IMPLORE n.
Imploration. [Obs.] Spencer.
INDIVIDUALITY n.
distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer.
INDIVIDUATION n.
The act of individuating or state of being individuated; individualization. H. Spencer.
INDUSTRIALISM n.
l pursuits or organized labor. Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer.
INEQUITY n.
Want of equity; injustice; wrong. "Some form of inequity." H. Spencer.
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