Search the Dictionary

The act of catechising.

The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the…

One who believes in the law of universal causation.

Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon.

In a causative manner.

One who causes. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the comm…

The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.

On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

A reveling; a rioting. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Commensality. [Obs.] Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne.

to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

The act or principle of compensating. Emerson.

Affording compensation.

One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.

Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.

Compulsatory. [R.] Shak.

By compulsion. [R.]

g from, or enforced by, compulsion. [R.] To recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. Shak.

A violent shock or agitation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.