Word Meanings - DEPRESSANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.

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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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• 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.
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• 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.
• REMEDY
  The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong. Civil remedy. See under Civil. -- Remedy of the mint , a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance. Syn. -- Cure;
• 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.
• AGENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.
• 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.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• REVITALIZE
  To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.
• 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.
• SUBAGENT
  A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
• 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.
• UNDERAGENT
  A subordinate agent.
• ELECTRO-VITALISM
  The theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.
• REAGENT
  A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.