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ty; to repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe.

s he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion. Wharton.…

Fitted to be a subject of judicial investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined. Cognizable both in the ecclesiastical and secular courts. Ayliffe.

Liable to judicial investigation. Jer. Taylor.

Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.

A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

Gathered together.

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley.

In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

The collective sum. aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

One who litigates or wrangles. [Obs.]

the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can…

A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.

In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played. Combining weight (Chem.), that proportional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a…