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A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

tics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to th…

Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. [Archaic] The full bent and stress of the soul. Norris.

A rush or impetus; force.

Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. Byron.

g body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.

igencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.