Word Meanings - PASSIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.

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• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• EXCITATE
  To excite. Bacon.
• MINISTERY
  See MILTON
• INFLUENCIVE
  Tending toinfluence; influential.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• EXCITO-NUTRIENT
  Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
• MINISTERIALLY
  In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
• 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
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• MINISTER
  orig. a double comparative from the root of minor less, and hence meaning, an inferior, a servant. See 1st Minor, and cf. Master, 1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. Moses rose
• INFLUENCER
  One who, or that which, influences.
• EXCITANT
  Tending to excite; exciting.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.
• EMPASSION
  To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
• UNDERMINISTER
  To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. Wyclif.
• IMPASSION
  To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman.