A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
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An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.
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A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
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That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
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Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
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That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
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The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determinin…
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A game of chance played with dice.
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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…
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Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.
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That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such…
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The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a…
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That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.
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A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
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To leap back; to rebound.
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Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
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The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…
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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
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