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Correction or government of one's self for the sake of improvement.

Want of confidence in one' self; diffidence.

Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or without pecuniary assistance from others.

Having the right of electing one's self, or, as a body, of electing its own members.

Enjoyment of one's self; self-satisfaction.

The holding a good opinion of one's self; self-complacency.

The act of estimating one's self; self-esteem.

The quality or state of being self-evident. Locke.

reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth. -- Self`-ev"i*dent*ly, adv.

Evolution of one's self; development by inherent quality or power.

The act of exalting one's self, or the state of being so exalted.

One who examines himself; one given to self-examination. The humiliated self-examinant feels that there is evil in our nature as well as good. Coleridge.

An examination into one's own state, conduct, and motives, particularly in regard to religious feelings and duties.

To energize or excite (the field magnets of a dynamo) by induction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or a part of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.

Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Blackmore.

Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.

Explaining itself; capable of being understood without explanation.

The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.

The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.

Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.