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.