Definition of unction

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Unction (n.) That quality in language, address, or the like, which excites emotion; especially, strong devotion; religious fervor and tenderness; sometimes, a simulated, factitious, or unnatural fervor..

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Polymorphosis :: Polymorphosis (n.) The assumption of several structural forms without a corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc..
Psychology :: Psychology (n.) The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul..
Hest :: Hest (n.) Command; precept; injunction.
Impose :: Impose (n.) A command; injunction.
Bioplasm :: Bioplasm (n.) A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.
Octant :: Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees..
Independent :: Independent (a.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.
Meet :: Meet (v. t.) To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear..
Lesion :: Lesion (n.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
Sever :: Sever (v. i.) To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate..
Covariant :: Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic..
Teleorganic :: Teleorganic (a.) Vital; as, teleorganic functions..
Copulative :: Copulative (a.) Serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like and..
Animal :: Animal (a.) Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions..
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Magistery :: Magistery (n.) A magisterial injunction.
Oleate :: Oleate (n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction..
Synodal :: Synod (n.) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
Compunctiously :: Compunctiously (adv.) With compunction.
Rubric :: Rubric (n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural..
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