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To deprive of soul, spirit, or principle. [R.] Shelton.

Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.

pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical. On I know not what telluric or uranic principles. Carlyle.

The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war. Brande & C.

rtues into one, and would substitute in their place the greatest usefulness, as the alone principle to which every question respecting the morality of actions should be referred. Chalmers. But what is a utilitarian Simply one who prefers the useful to the useless; and who does not Sir W. Hamilton.

Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct. Who . . . heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race. Milton.

ask by slight differences in the manners a virtual identity in the substance. De Quincey. Principle of virtual velocities (Mech.), the law that when several forces are in equilibrium, the algebraic sum of their virtual moments is equal to zero. -- Virtual focus (Opt.), the point from which rays, having been rendered d…

Moral power. Principle of vis viva (Mech.), the principle that the difference between the aggregate work of the accelerating forces of a system and that of the retarding forces is equal to one half the vis viva accumulated or lost in the system while the work is being done. -- Vis impressa Etym: [L.] (Mech.), force ex…

bathmism), and thought force (phrenism), all under the direction and control of the vital principle. Apart from the phenomena of consciousness, vital actions no longer need to be considered as of a mysterious and unfathomable character, nor vital force as anything other than a form of physical energy derived from, and…

The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.

Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.

The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.

The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.

an act of choice. That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy. N. W. Taylor.

The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.

tration of justice, and, indirectly, to encourage the crime. L. Beecher. To vote on large principles, to vote honestly, requires a great amount of information. F. W. Robertson.

o the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence. -- n.

One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.

chain, to that of the axle. Called also axis in peritrochio, and perpetual lever, -- the principle of equilibrium involved being the same as in the lever, while its action is continuous. See Mechanical powers, under Mechanical. -- Wheel animal, or Wheel animalcule (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of rotifers havi…