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ing power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.

Intermediate agency.

A subordinate agency.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

ce, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

Agency. Beau. & Fl.

Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.] The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind- Fertilized. Lubbock.

In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.

The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.

ng out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

ctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the…

That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

s food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.