Word Meanings - LIQUEFACIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions. (more info) 1. That which serves to liquefy.

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• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• IODINE
  A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic
• SYSTEMATIC; SYSTEMATICAL
  Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• SYSTEMIC
  Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases. Systemic death. See the Note under Death, n.,
• SYSTEM
  The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n. (more info) 1. An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some
• SYSTEMATIZER
  One who systematizes. Aristotle may be called the systematizer of his master's doctrines. Harris.
• SYSTEMIZE
  To reduce to system; to systematize.
• SYSTEMATICALLY
  In a systematic manner; methodically.
• SYSTEMATOLOGY
  The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Dunglison.
• SYSTEMIZER
  One who systemizes, or reduces to system; a systematizer.
• AGENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• TANDEM SYSTEM
  = Cascade system.
• LIQUEFY
  To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
• BLOCK SYSTEM
  A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train
• THREE-TORQUE SYSTEM OF CONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• SUBAGENT
  A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.
• BELL SYSTEM OF CONTROL
  See CLOCHE