Definition of life

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Life (n.) That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise..

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Civilian :: Civilian (n.) One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical..
Monachism :: Monachism (n.) The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.
Hemlock :: Hemlock (n.) The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium..
Person :: Person (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character..
Liken :: Liken (a.) To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage..
Station :: Station (n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.
Jugum :: Jugum (n.) One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
Time :: Time (n.) The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
Term :: Term (n.) The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life..
Envenom :: Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom..
Veinstone :: Veinstone (n.) The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff..
Brunonian :: Brunonian (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation..
Biographer :: Biographer (n.) One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch..
Dully :: Dully (adv.) In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter..
Upstart :: Upstart (n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu..
Wineless :: Wineless (a.) destitute of wine; as, wineless life..
Lovage :: Lovage (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant..
Through :: Through (prep.) From the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year..
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