Word Meanings - ADYNAMIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

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• VITALIZATION
  The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.
• VITALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
• VITAL
  1. Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions. 2. Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood. Do the heavens afford him vital food Spenser. And vital
• VITALLY
  In a vital manner.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DEBILITY
  The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot. Syn. -- Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility. An infirmity belongs, for the
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• VITALISM
  The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• VITALIC
  Pertaining to life; vital.
• VITALIZE
  To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
• VITALITY
  The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.
• VITALIST
  A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist.
• VITALS
  1. Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain. 2. Fig.: The part essential to the life or health of anything; as, the vitals of a state. "The vitals of the public body." Glanvill.
• REVITALIZE
  To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• ELECTRO-VITAL
  Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
• DEVITALIZE
  To deprive of life or vitality. -- De*vi`tal*i*za"tion, n.
• ELECTRO-VITALISM
  The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.