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o, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately.

Capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.

A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. He howhere, that I know, says it in direct words. Locke. A direct and avowed interference with elections. Hallam.

Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.

Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately. "Will she go now to bed' Directly.'" Shak.

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond.

ns . . . were only disciplinary. Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. Buckminster.

mission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

ion of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death. We expected Immediate dissolution. Milton.

Melted in the crucible dissolvents. A. Smith. The secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce. Mothley.

ed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.

complaint] (Eccl. Law), a complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop. Mozley & W. -- Duplex telegraphy, a system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously. -- Duplex watch, one with a duplex escapement.…

E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and E.

h decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communion in both kinds (using leavened bread) and to infants as well as adults, permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward, but not to marry a s…

In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury. The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

e refraction and their relation to the elastic force of the luminous ether in crystalline media.