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Beyond power; transcending authority; -- a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.
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Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.
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To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
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A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.
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Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
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Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, avowal, or acts.
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Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.
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A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.
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The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.
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A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
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The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
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One who follows or attends another for his support and aid; a backer; an assistant; specifically, one who acts as another's aid in a duel.
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A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
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Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self.
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One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent.
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A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
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Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
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Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires.
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A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.
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To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
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