Antipyresis :: Antipyresis (n.) The condition or state of being free from fever.

Aphaeresis :: Aphaeresis (n.) Same as Apheresis.

Apheresis :: Apheresis (n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute..

Apheresis :: Apheresis (n.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

Diaeresis :: Diaeresis (n.) Alt. of Dieresi.

Diaphoresis :: Diaphoresis (n.) Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration..

Dieresis :: Dieresis (n.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synaeresis.

Dieresis :: Dieresis (n.) A mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial..

Dieresis :: Dieresis (n.) Same as Diaeresis.

Diuresis :: Diuresis (n.) Free excretion of urine.

Enuresis :: Enuresis (n.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

Exaeresis :: Exaeresis (n.) In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body..

Hysteresis :: Hysteresis (n.) A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity..

Irresistance :: Irresistance (n.) Nonresistance; passive submission.

Irresistibility :: Irresistibility (n.) The quality or state of being irrestible, irresistibleness..

Irresistible :: Irresistible (a.) That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction..

Irresistibleness :: Irresistibleness (n.) Quality of being irrestible.

Irresistibly :: Irresistibly (adv.) In an irrestible manner.

Irresistless :: Irresistless (a.) Irresistible.

Nonresistance :: Nonresistance (n.) The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition..

Nonresistant :: Nonresistant (a.) Making no resistance.

Nonresistant :: Nonresistant (n.) One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force..

Nonresisting :: Nonresisting (a.) Not making resistance.

Paresis :: Paresis (n.) Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation..

Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose..

Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction..

Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To be distasteful to.

Resist :: Resist (v. i.) To make opposition.

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