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

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.

Added; additional. [Obs.] An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon.

Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

A patch; an addition; a piece put on. [Obs.] John Lewis (1731).

The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

agnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.

The relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.

The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.

Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition. The chillest of social atmospheres. Hawthorne.

A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

lse verdict. [Obs.] Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone.

Enlargement by addition; increase.

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

in that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

Received by the ear; known by report. "Auricular traditions." Bacon.

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.

n automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or…

ng from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.