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A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime. The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood. Pope. The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius.

ce, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American…

The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.…

specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc. "The average of sensations." Paley.

n animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.

To carry on, or maintain; to have. "The credit of bearing a part in the conversation." Locke.

To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. Byron.

Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

f a ship's company at the time of her leaving port. -- Bill of indictment, a written accusation lawfully presented to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence sufficient to support the accusation, they indorse it "A true bill," or "Not found," or "Ignoramus", or "Ignored." -- Bill of lading, a written account o…

To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.

by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.

ute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.

The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.

Cessation; end. [Obs.]

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

s food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.