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That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality. So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Milton.

llion, and thy stiff neck." Deut. xxxi. 27. -- To break the neck of, to destroy the main force of. "What they presume to borrow from her sage and virtuous rules... breaks the neck of their own cause." Milton. -- To harden the neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious. Neh. ix. 17. -- To tr…

To neutralize the force of; to counteract.

As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.

Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor. he led me on to mightiest deeds, Above the nerve of mortal arm. Milton.

Nerve force. See Vital force, under Vital.

Nerve force.

, the condition of a neutral power, in time of war, which holds itself ready to resist by force any aggression of either belligerent.

Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.

ctices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.

Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.

Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.

To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system. I. Taylor.

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something. The obliging power of the law is neither founded in, nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments annexed to it. South. Religion obliges men to the practice of those virtues which conduce to the preservation of ou…

The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.

An alleged force or natural power, supposed, by Reichenbach and others, to produce the phenomena of mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by magnets, heat, light, chemical or vital action, etc.; -- called also odyle or the odylic force. [Archaic] That od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from fe…

Of or pertaining to odyle; odic; as, odylic force. [Archaic]

of air (or vacuum) between parallel faces. Also, a reluctance in which unit magnetomotive force sets up unit flux.

ngth or intensity of an electrical current is directly proportional to the electro-motive force, and inversely proportional to the resistance of the circuit.