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eautiful . . . that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life. W. Black.

The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.

a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year. Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within. Mrs. Browning.

e stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and that all the higher forms of life now in existence were thus developed by uniform laws from lower forms, and are not the result of special creative acts. See the Note under Darwinian.

To deprive of life or vitality. -- De*vi`tal*i*za"tion, n.

o waste; to annihilate. Famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezek. vii. 15. I waste my life and do my days devour. Spenser.

To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or…

and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.

ask or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

ed much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings. Diogenes' crab (Zoöl.), a species of terrestrial hermit crabs (Cenobita Diogenes), abundant in the West Indies and often destructive to crops. -- Diogenes' tub, the tub which the philosopher…

run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak.

citate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair. A Christian's life is a perpetual exercise, a wrestling and warfare, for which sensual pleasure disables him. Jer. Taylor. And had performed it, if my known offense Had not disabled me. Milton. I have disabled mine estate. Shak.…

To deprive of life. [R.] Cudworth.

Privation of life. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

e nature of disassimilation. Disassimilative processes constitute a marked feature in the life of animal cells. McKendrick.

To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.] The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.

gs. It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession. Rogers.

Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.

ce; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic. That peculiar and discriminative form of life. Johnson.

disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.