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1,236 words match “CONDITION”

EVENNESS n.
level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition. It had need be something extraordinary, that must warrant an ordinary person to rise higher than his own evenness. Jer. Taylor.
EVILNESS n.
The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
EX- n.
s as s- or é-; as, escape, scape, élite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as…
EXACTNESS n.
The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.
EXCLUDE v.
e which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction.
EXPANSION n.
The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
EXPERIMENT n.
l or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof. A political e…
EXPUNCTION n.
The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged. Milton.
EXTRA-UTERINE a.
Outside of the uterus, or womb. Extra-uterine pregnancy (Med.), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.
EXTRAORDINARY a.
Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.
EXTREME n.
An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. "Resolute in most extremes." Shak.
EXTROVERSION n.
The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.
EXUVIATE v.
To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt. There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. Huxley.
FACULTATIVE a. 2 definitions
Of such a character as to admit of existing under various forms or conditions, or of happening or not happening, or the like; specif.: (Biol.)
FAGEND; FAG-END n.
An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.
FARE n.
Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. What fare what news abroad Shak.
FARM v.
To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. Burke.
FARRAGINOUS a.
erials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. [R.] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.
FASCIATION n.
The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.
FASCINATION n.
The state or condition of being fascinated.
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