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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,275 words match “ACTION”

PINGUEFACTION n.

A making of, or turning into, fat.

Previous action.

PROTRACTION n. 3 definitions

ct of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate. A protraction only of what is worst in life. Mallock.

PUTREFACTION n. 2 definitions

The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied. "Putrefaction's breath." Shelley.

cess of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; - - opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.

REACTION n. 5 definitions

Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

REACTIONARY a. 2 definitions

Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.

A reactionary. C. Kingsley.

The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.

Recompense; atonemet; retribution. [Obs.] Howell.

REFRACTION n. 4 definitions

uely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved. Refraction out of the rarer medium into the denser, is made towards the perpendicular. Sir I. Newton.

RETRACTION n. 4 definitions

The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.

RETROACTION n. 2 definitions

Action returned, or action backward.

The act or process of making red.

SATISFACTION n. 3 definitions

e with its desires or demands. The mind having a power to suspend the execution and satisfaction of any of its desires. Locke.

Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself.

SELF-SATISFACTION n.

The quality or state of being self-satisfied.

SPARGEFACTION n.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] Swift.

STUPEFACTION n.

The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. [Written also stupifaction.] Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.