Definition of action

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Action (n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim..

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Tabefaction :: Tabefaction (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.
Impurity :: Impurity (n.) That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient..
Gallicanism :: Gallicanism (n.) The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church..
Actless :: Actless (a.) Without action or spirit.
Commentary :: Commentary (v. i.) A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War..
Assignor :: Assignor (n.) An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action..
Addition :: Addition (n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
Duplication :: Duplication (n.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells..
Narration :: Narration (n.) That which is related; the relation in words or writing of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events; story; history..
Answer :: Answer (v. i.) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils..
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action..
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, reptile is an abstract or general name..
Procinct :: Procinct (n.) A state of complete readiness for action.
Arena :: Arena (n.) Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life..
Antiputrescent :: Antiputrescent (a.) Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic..
Fashion :: Fashion (n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
Self-indignation :: Self-indignation (n.) Indignation at one's own character or actions.
Narrative :: Narrative (a.) Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
Origin :: Origin (n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
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