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Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration..

Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification..

Stringiness :: Stringhalt (n.) An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock..

Tetanus :: Tetanus (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm..

Postlude :: Postlude (n.) A voluntary at the end of a service.

Abdication :: Abdication (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority..

Automatism :: Automatism (n.) The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter..

Involuntary :: Involuntary (a.) Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission..

Condescension :: Condescension (n.) The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

Trespass :: Trespass (v.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

Gift :: Gift (v. t.) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession..

Somnambulism :: Somnambulism (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg..

Spermatorrhoea :: Spermatorrhoea (n.) Abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.

Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..

Adultery :: Adultery (n.) The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband..

Voluntary :: Voluntary (n.) One who advocates voluntaryism.

Involuntary :: Involuntary (a.) Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers..

Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent..

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