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Word Meanings - RENITENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

strive or struggle against, resist; pref. re- re- + niti to struggle 1. Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impluse by elastic force. " soft and yet renitent." Ray. 2. Persistently opposed.

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  • ACTURE
    Action. Shak.
  • ACTURIENCE
    Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
  • FORCE
    To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
  • ACTINOLITE
    A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
  • ACTINOSTOME
    The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
  • ACTINARIA
    A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
  • ACTUARIAL
    Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • ACTUALIZE
    To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • ACTIVITY
    The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
  • ACTUATE
    Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • ACTINOPHOROUS
    Having straight projecting spines.
  • EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
    Effective. B. Jonson.
  • STRUGGLER
    One who struggles.
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • ACTUAL
    1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • SELF-ACTIVE
    Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
  • CHYLIFACTIVE
    Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
  • HEMIDACTYL
    Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
  • PHYLACTERED
    Wearing a phylactery.
  • INACTUATE
    To put in action.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • UNRESISTANCE
    Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
  • RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
    An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
  • LACTOSCOPE
    An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
  • OLFACTOR
    A smelling organ; a nose.
  • AUTODIDACT
    One who is self-taught; an automath.

 

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