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Materia medica; the science of remedies.

Acquirement. [Obs.] Barrow.

The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.

e; a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.

The measurement of the force of solar radiation. Maury.

Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.

The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.

ome to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.…

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

scertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

Same as Admeasurement.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

e of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

ple, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell.

The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.