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Absistence
Absistence Ab*sist"ence, n.
A standing aloof. [Obs.]
AdvertenceAdvertence Ad*vert"ence, Advertency Ad*vert"en*cy, [OF.
advertence, avertence, LL. advertentia, fr. L. advertens. See
Advertent.]
The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent;
attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.
To this difference it is right that advertence should
be had in regulating taxation. --J. S. Mill. Armipotence
Armipotence Ar*mip"o*tence, n. [L. armipotentia, fr.
armipotents.]
Power in arms. [R.] --Johnson.
Centripetence
Centripetence Cen*trip"e*tence, n.
Centripetency.
Coexistence
Coexistence Co`ex*ist"ence, n.
Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary
existence.
Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any
condition. --Jer. Taylor.
Commissary general of subsistenceCommissary Com"mis*sa*ry, n.; pl. Commissaries. [LL.
commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to
commit, intrust to. See Commit.]
1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by
a superior power; a commissioner.
Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne.
2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises
ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a
distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe.
3. (Mil.)
(a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the
commissary of musters.
(b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a
body of troops or a military post; -- officially
called commissary of subsistence. [U. S.]
Washington wrote to the President of Congress .
. . urging the appointment of a commissary
general, a quartermaster general, a commissary
of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W.
Irving
Commissary general, an officer in charge of some special
department of army service; as:
(a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and
transport department, or of the ordnance store
department. [Eng.]
(b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.]
Commissary general of subsistence (Mil. U. S.), the head of
the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase
and issue of provisions for the army. commissary of subsistenceCommissary Com"mis*sa*ry, n.; pl. Commissaries. [LL.
commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to
commit, intrust to. See Commit.]
1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by
a superior power; a commissioner.
Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne.
2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises
ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a
distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe.
3. (Mil.)
(a) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the
commissary of musters.
(b) An officer whose business is to provide food for a
body of troops or a military post; -- officially
called commissary of subsistence. [U. S.]
Washington wrote to the President of Congress .
. . urging the appointment of a commissary
general, a quartermaster general, a commissary
of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W.
Irving
Commissary general, an officer in charge of some special
department of army service; as:
(a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and
transport department, or of the ordnance store
department. [Eng.]
(b) The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.]
Commissary general of subsistence (Mil. U. S.), the head of
the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase
and issue of provisions for the army. Consistence
Consistence Con*sist"ence, Consistency Con*sist"en*cy, n.
[Cf. F. consistance.]
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being
fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence;
firmness; coherence; solidity.
Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it
restore itself to the natural consistence. --Bacon.
We are as water, weak, and of no consistence. --Jer.
Taylor.
The same form, substance, and consistency. --T.
Burnet.
2. A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude.
Let the expressed juices be boiled into the
consistence of a sirup. --Arbuthnot.
Existence
Existence Ex*ist"ence, n. [Cf. F. existence.]
1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of
being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and
of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul;
immortal existence.
The main object of our existence. --Lubbock.
2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of
events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of
a state of war.
The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but
another word for its being perceived, or for the
inferred possibility of perceiving it. --J. S. Mill.
3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as,
living existences.
Ignipotence
Ignipotence Ig*nip"o*tence, n.
Power over fire. [R.]
ImpotenceImpotence Im"po*tence, Impotency Im"po*ten*cy, n. [L.
impotenia inability, poverty, want of moderation. See
Impotent.]
1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of
strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral;
weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.
Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young
fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots,
and cripples. --Hayward.
O, impotence of mind in body strong! --Milton.
2. Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] --Milton.
3. (Law & Med.) Want of procreative power; inability to
copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility;
barrenness. InadvertenceInadvertence In`ad*vert"ence; pl. -ces, Inadvertency
In`ad*vert"en*cy; pl. -cies, n. [Cf. F. inadvertance.]
1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or
attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes
proceed from inadvertence.
Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and
intention of our prayers. --Jer. Taylor.
2. An effect of inattention; a result of carelessness; an
oversight, mistake, or fault from negligence.
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses
an inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to
works of an inferior kind of author which are
scrupulously exact. --Addison.
Syn: Inattention; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence;
thoughtlessness. See Inattention. Incoexistence
Incoexistence In`co*ex*ist"ence, n.
The state of not coexisting. [Obs.] --Locke.
Inconsistence
Inconsistence In`con*sist"ence, n.
Inconsistency.
Inexistence
Inexistence In`ex*ist"ence, n. [Pref. in- in + existence.]
[Obs.]
(a) Inherence; subsistence. --Bp. Hall.
(b) That which exists within; a constituent. --A. Tucker.
Inexistence
Inexistence In`ex*ist"ence, n. [Pref. in- in + existence: cf.
F. inexistence.]
Want of being or existence.
Insistence
Insistence In*sist"ence, n.
The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the
act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence;
urgency.
Intermittence
Intermittence In`ter*mit"tence, n. [Cf. F. intermittence.]
Act or state of intermitting; intermission. --Tyndall.
Latence
Latence La"tence, n.
Latency. --Coleridge.
Metencephalon
Metencephalon Met`en*ceph"a*lon, n. [Met- + encephalon.]
(Anat.)
The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the
afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.
Misadvertence
Misadvertence Mis`ad*vert"ence, n.
Inadvertence.
Nonexistence
Nonexistence Non`ex*ist"ence, n.
1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity.
--A. Baxter.
2. A thing that has no existence. --Sir T. Browne.
PersistencePersistence Per*sist"ence, Persistency Per*sist"en*cy, n.
[See Persistent.]
1. The quality or state of being persistent; staying or
continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense,
doggedness; obstinacy.
2. The continuance of an effect after the cause which first
gave rise to it is removed; as:
(a) (Physics) The persistence of motion.
(b) (Physiol.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the
visual impression; auditory persistence, etc. Plenipotence
Plenipotence Ple*nip"o*tence, Plenipotency Ple*nip"o*ten*cy,
n.
The quality or state of being plenipotent. [R.]
Postencephalon
Postencephalon Post`en*ceph"a*lon, n. (Anat.)
The metencephalon.
Postexistence
Postexistence Post`ex*ist"ence, n.
Subsequent existence.
PotencePotence Po"tence, n. [F., fr. LL. potentia staff, crutch, L.,
might, power. See Potency.]
Potency; capacity. [R.] --Sir W. Hamilton. Preexistence
Preexistence Pre`["e]x*ist"ence, n.
1. Existence in a former state, or previous to something
else.
Wisdom declares her antiquity and pre["e]xistence to
all the works of this earth. --T. Burnet.
2. Existence of the soul before its union with the body; -- a
doctrine held by certain philosophers. --Addison.
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