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One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

stituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt. Test act (Eng. Law), an act of the Eng…

A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.

pyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.

ating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature. Murdock.

magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.

By means of; by the agency of. Through these hands this science has passed with great applause. Sir W. Temple. Material things are presented only through their senses. Cheyne.

by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes. I was not made for a minion or a tool. Burks.

A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.

uge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

o do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.

Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book. -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. -- Tran"si*tive*ness, n.

A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.

The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow. Milton. he fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Shak.

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith.

ng trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Tennyson.