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The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

Having the power of perceiving; percipient. [Archaic] Glanvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force…

To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. Dryden.

Having the power of giving life or spirit. Johnson.

Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming.

sence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

The thing desired. [Obs.] Power being the natural appetite of princes. Swift.

Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale.

Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.

A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton.

One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.

The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.