Word Meanings - ELECTROTONUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.
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- MODIFICATION
The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley. - CONDITIONALITY
The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms. - NERVELESSNESS
The state of being nerveless. - CONDITIONAL
Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . - CONSTANTIA
A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony. - ANELECTROTONUS
The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster. - NERVELESS
1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne. - THROUGH
thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece - CONDITIONATE
Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall. - MODIFICATIVE
That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause. - MODIFIABILITY
Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable. - CONDITIONLY
Conditionally. - CONDITION
A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of - ELECTRICITY
1. A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by - NERVED
Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. Gray. (more info) 1. Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved. - MODIFIER
One who, or that which, modifies. Hume. - CONSTANT
Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, forc, law, etc. 4. Consistent; logical. Shak. Syn. -- Fixed; steadfast; unchanging; permanent; unalterable; immutable; perpetual; continual; resolute; firm; unshaken; determined. -- Constant, - MODIFIABLE
Capable of being modified; liable to modification. - THROUGHLY
Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden. - CATELECTROTONUS
The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it. - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - JAPAN CURRENT
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion - PHASING CURRENT
The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period. - ALTERNATING CURRENT
A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed. - PERCURRENT
Running through the entire length. - SNEAK CURRENT
A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out. - PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
Electricity produced by light. - OSCILLATING CURRENT
A current alternating in direction. - NONRECURRENT
Not recurring. - UNNERVE
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak. - INCONDITIONAL
Unconditional. Sir T. Browne. - UNCONDITIONAL
Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.