Word Meanings - ABIRRITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

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• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• 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 . . .
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• IRRITATION
  The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• STRENGTH
  1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
• ASTHENIA; ASTHENY
  Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.
• DEBILITY
  The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot. Syn. -- Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility. An infirmity belongs, for the
• 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
• STRENGTHNER
  See STRENGTHENER
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• STRENGTHY
  Having strength; strong.
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• CONDITIONALLY
  In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
• STRENGTHING
  A stronghold.
• STRENGTHLESS
  Destitute of strength. Boyle.
• OPPOSITE
  1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• NEURASTHENIA
  A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.
• PATHOLOGIC; PATHOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to pathology. -- Path`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
• 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.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
• ABIRRITATION
  A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
• PRECONDITION
  A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.