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of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.

accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. Blest with each grace of nature and of art. Pope.

e or appearance in protoplasm due to death or the use of reagents and not present during life.

ts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]

rizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.

In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things. I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters…

The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.

One whose life or property is insured.

One who takes out a life assurance policy.

rmometer at 80º; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.

make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to).

The life principle, soul, or individual essence.

To make satisfaction for; to expiate. Or each atone his guilty love with life. Pope.

hed by efforts directed to the object. The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. Addison.

try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp. Without attempting his adversary's life. Motley.

modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden.

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

One who writers his own life or biography.

One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]