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Use :: Use (v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger..

Passive :: Passive (a.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues..

Impassivity :: Impassivity (n.) The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness..

Power :: Power (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance..

Fortitude :: Fortitude (n.) That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble..

Resistance :: Resistance (n.) The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active..

Passiveness :: Passiveness (n.) The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Passion :: Passion (n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.

Immovable :: Immovable (a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.

Acquiescence :: Acquiescence (n.) A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction..

Congestion :: Congestion (n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs..

Passive :: Passive (a.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive..

Glassite :: Glassite (n.) A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding. The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass..

Passively :: Passively (adv.) As a passive verb; in the passive voice.

Patient :: Patient (n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient..

Deponent :: Deponent (a.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs..

Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument..

#NAME? :: -ee () A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer..

Ecchymose :: Ecchymose (v. t.) To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed..

Dishevel :: Dishevel (v. t.) To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.

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