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269 words match “WATT”

OBVERT v.
To turn toward. If its base be obverted towards us. I. Watts.
OCCURRENCE n.
Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts.
OVERBEARING a.
Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts.
PARENTHESIS n.
Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts.
PASS v.
ed upon all men. Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. I. Watts.
PENETRATION n.
nvisible virtue even to the deep. Milton. A penetration into the difficulties of algebra. Watts.
PHENICINE n.
uced by the action of a mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acids on phenylic alcohol. Watts.
PHOCENIC a.
n acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid. Watts.
PIET n.
The dipper, or watter ouzel. [Scot.]
PLENARY a.
plenary license; plenary authority. A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full. I. Watts. Plenary indulgence (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all sins. -- Plenary inspiration. (Theol.) See under Inspiration.
PLUNGE v.
ound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts.
PONCELET n.
an expenditure of one hundred kilogram-meters of energy per second. One poncelet equals g watts, when g is the value of the acceleration of gravity in centimeters.
POSITION n.
any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before. I. Watts.
POSTHUME; POSTHUMED a.
Posthumos. [Obs.] I. Watts. Fuller.
POWER n.
or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc. I. Watts. The guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness . . . into a received belief. Shak.
PRECIPITANCE; PRECIPITANCY n.
g a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. "Precipitance of judgment." I. Watts.
PRECISIVE a.
not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction. I. Watts.
PREJUDICE v.
not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. I. Watts
PREMISS n.
Premise. Whately. I. Watts
PREPONDERATION n.
The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. I. Watts.
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