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Previous accusation.

The act of seizing with violence. [Obs.] Barrow .

Previous sensation, notion, or idea. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery. By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited. Blackstone.

The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken. Gayton.

A second baptism. [Obs.] Hooker.

Recompense. [Obs.]

The act or process of recondensing.

Refusal. [Obs.]

in the internal state of the body. Perception is only a special kind of knowledge, and sensation a special kind of feeling. . . . Knowledge and feeling, perception and sensation, though always coexistent, are always in the inverse ratio of each other. Sir W. Hamilton.

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

e held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

A slight charge or accusation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A trot or trotting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.

ng is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.

The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Holland.

A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accide…