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the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoön; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.

emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for d…

States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.

to the existing government. -- Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of grace. -- Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action…

Passiveness; -- opposed to activity. Jer. Taylor.

Any vital action or activity. Mivart.

To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.

Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With fiery quickness. Shak. His mind had, indeed, great quickness and vigor. Macaulay.

Treatment of disease by means of Röntgen rays or other forms of radioactivity.

plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium present, but not on its state of chemical combination or on external conditions.The radioactivity of radium is therefore an atomic property, and is explained as result from a disintegra…

on or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.

To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.

Stimulated by uplift to renewed erosive activity; -- said of streams.

ts; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. Milton. These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss. Roscommon. Its motion becomes more languid and remiss. Woodward.

To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.

Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business. [Colloq.]

Fig.: To impair by time and inactivity. Johmson.

A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.

Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity. [Obs.]

acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.