Word Meanings - EXINANITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
n. An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. Fastings to the exinanition of spirits. Jer. Taylor.
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- EXHAUSTION
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications - ENFEEBLISH
To enfeeble. Holland. - EMPTY
æmtig, æmetig, fr. æmta, æmetta, quiet, leisure, rest; of uncertain 1. Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, - ENFEEBLER
One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble. - EMPTYING
The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl. - TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in - ENFEEBLEMENT
The act of weakening; enervation; weakness. - EXINANITION
n. An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. Fastings to the exinanition of spirits. Jer. Taylor. - ENFEEBLE
To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott. Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate. - HUMILIATION
1. The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification. Bp. Hopkins. 2. The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission. The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood. - OVEREMPTY
To make too empty; to exhaust. Carew. - KEMP; KEMPTY
Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.