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Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.

That distributes; dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

- Diurnal revolution of a planet, the motion of the planet upon its own axis which constitutes one complete revolution.

The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

ginal, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent. The doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. ii. 13.

To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.

Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.

That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

a person skilled in the science of civil engineering. -- Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.

One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being. Among the higher Æons are Mind, Reason, Power, Truth, and Life. Am. Cyc.

al essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors und…

Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness. Quincy.

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.

One who executes; an executer. Bacon.

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak.