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Audacity
Audacity Au*dac"i*ty, n.
1. Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.
The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce
of men. --Tatler.
2. Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a
contempt of law or moral restraints.
With the most arrogant audacity. --Joye.
Bibacity
Bibacity Bi*bac"i*ty, n.
The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling.
--Blount.
Carnivoracity
Carnivoracity Car*niv`o*rac"i*ty, n.
Greediness of appetite for flesh. [Sportive.] --Pope.
DisputacityDisputacity Dis`pu*tac"i*ty, n. [See Dispute, v. i.]
Proneness to dispute. [Obs.] --Bp. Ward. Edacity
Edacity E*dac"i*ty, n. [L. edacitas.]
Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. --Bacon.
Feracity
Feracity Fe*rac"i*ty, n. [L. feracitas.]
The state of being feracious or fruitful. [Obs.] --Beattie.
Furacity
Furacity Fu*rac"i*ty, n. [L. furacitas.]
Addictedness to theft; thievishness. [Obs.]
Inveracity
Inveracity In`ve*rac"i*ty, n.
Want of veracity.
MendacityMendacity Men*dac"i*ty, n.; pl. Mendacities. [L.
mendacitas.]
1. The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of
lying. --Macaulay.
2. A falsehood; a lie. --Sir T. Browne.
Syn: Lying; deceit; untruth; falsehood. Minacity
Minacity Mi*nac"i*ty, n.
Disposition to threaten. [R.]
Nugacity
Nugacity Nu*gac"i*ty, n. [L. nugacitas, fr. nugax, -acis,
trifling.]
Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery. [R.] --Dr. H.
More.
Pervicacity
Pervicacity Per`vi*cac"i*ty, n.
Obstinacy; pervicaciousness. [Obs.] --Bentley.
Procacity
Procacity Pro*cac"i*ty, n. [L. procacitas.]
Forwardness; pertness; petulance. [R.] --Burton.
RapacityRapacity Ra*pac"i*ty, n. [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacite. See
Rapacious.]
1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness;
ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of
wolves.
2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive
injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. ``The rapacity
of some ages.' --Sprat. SagacitySagacity Sa*gac"i*ty, n. [L. sagacitas. See Sagacious.]
The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of
sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration
with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell.
--Cowper.
Natural sagacity improved by generous education. --V.
Knox.
Syn: Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness.
Usage: Sagacity, Penetration. Penetration enables us to
enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to
detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to
penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables
one to guard against the designs of others, and to
turn everything to the best possible advantage. Saponacity
Saponacity Sap`o*nac"i*ty, n.
The quality or state of being saponaceous.
Sequacity
Sequacity Se*quac"i*ty, n. [L. sequacitas.]
Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.
--Bacon.
Unveracity
Unveracity Un`ve*rac"i*ty, n.
Want of veracity; untruthfulness; as, unveracity of heart.
--Carlyle.
Vital capacityVital Vi"tal, a. [F., fr. L. vitalis, fr. vita life; akin to
vivere to live. See Vivid.]
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 virtue infused, and vital warmth.
--Milton.
3. Containing life; living. ``Spirits that live throughout,
vital in every part.' --Milton.
4. Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends;
mortal.
The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part. --Pope.
5. Very necessary; highly important; essential.
A competence is vital to content. --Young.
6. Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. [R.]
Pythagoras and Hippocrates . . . affirm the birth of
the seventh month to be vital. --Sir T.
Browne.
Vital air, oxygen gas; -- so called because essential to
animal life. [Obs.]
Vital capacity (Physiol.), the breathing capacity of the
lungs; -- expressed by the number of cubic inches of air
which can be forcibly exhaled after a full inspiration.
Vital force. (Biol.) See under Force. The vital forces,
according to Cope, are nerve force (neurism), growth force
(bathmism), and thought force (phrenism), all under the
direction and control of the vital principle. Apart from
the phenomena of consciousness, vital actions no longer
need to be considered as of a mysterious and unfathomable
character, nor vital force as anything other than a form
of physical energy derived from, and convertible into,
other well-known forces of nature.
Vital functions (Physiol.), those functions or actions of
the body on which life is directly dependent, as the
circulation of the blood, digestion, etc.
Vital principle, an immaterial force, to which the
functions peculiar to living beings are ascribed.
Vital statistics, statistics respecting the duration of
life, and the circumstances affecting its duration.
Vital tripod. (Physiol.) See under Tripod.
Vital vessels (Bot.), a name for latex tubes, now disused.
See Latex.
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