Word Meanings - INVALIDITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. 2. Want of health; infirmity. Sir W. Temple.
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- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - COGENCY
The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force. An antecedent argument of extreme cogency. J. H. Newman. - LEGALITY
1. The state or quality of being letter of the law. - TEMPLED
Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith. - HEALTHFULLY
In health; wholesomely. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - HEALTHLESS
1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome. - HEALTHFUL
1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful - EFFICACY
Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force; - INVALIDITY
1. Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. 2. Want of health; infirmity. Sir W. Temple. - LEGALIZE
To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal. - HEALTHFULNESS
The state of being healthful. - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - HEALTHSOME
Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak. - LEGALLY
In a legal manner. - HEALTHWARD
In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency. - FORCED
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more - HEALTH
1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not - LEGALISM
Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - ILLEGAL
Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet. - OVERFORCE
Excessive force; violence. - STEMPLE
A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step. - ILLEGALNESS
Illegality, unlawfulness.