Definition of agent

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Agent (n.) An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent..

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Mediately :: Mediately (adv.) In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately.
Test :: Test (v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper..
Subject :: Subject (a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2..
Chief :: Chief (n.) The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent..
Understrapper :: Understrapper (n.) A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
Coagency :: Coagency (n.) Agency in common; joint agency or agent.
Agent :: Agent (n.) One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor..
Demiurge :: Demiurge (n.) According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man..
#NAME? :: -or () A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator. It is correlative to -ee. In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and -er to those of English, origin. See -er..
Letheon :: Letheon (n.) Sulphuric ether used as an anaesthetic agent.
Intoxicant :: Intoxicant (n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants..
Impulsive :: Impulsive (n.) That which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.
Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium..
Power :: Power (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity..
Depurative :: Depurative (n.) A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.
Vakeel :: Vakeel (n.) A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador..
Derivative :: Derivative (n.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).
Preservative :: Preservative (n.) That which preserves, or has the power of preserving; a presevative agent..
Inunction :: Inunction (n.) The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed..
Reducent :: Reducent (n.) A reducent agent.
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