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

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

The act or process of making red.

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

Satisfactory. [Obs.] Satisfactive discernment of fish. Sir T. Browne.

Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.

The quality or state of being self-satisfied.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] Swift.

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.

Same as Stupefacient. [Written also stupifactive.]

A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

Act of tepefying.

The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. Bp. Hall.

The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling. Arbuthnot.

A subordinate party or faction.

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state of being vitrified.

The manufacture of glass and glassware.

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction. [Obs.] Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear. Shak.