n. See Affluxion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. affixio, fr. affigere. ] Affixture. [ Obs. ] T. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. annexio a tying to, connection: cf. F. annexion. ] Annexation. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An annexationist. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anxius, fr. angere to cause pain, choke; akin to Gr. 'a`gchein to choke. See Anger. ] 1. Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sweet of life, from which
God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anxious is followed by for, about, concerning, etc., before the object of solicitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Solicitous; careful; uneasy; unquiet; restless; concerned; disturbed; watchful. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to axiology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the study of values and value judgments. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. axioma, Gr. &unr_; that which is thought worthy, that which is assumed, a basis of demonstration, a principle, fr. &unr_; to think worthy, fr. &unr_; worthy, weighing as much as; cf. &unr_; to lead, drive, also to weigh so much: cf F. axiome. See Agent, a. ] 1. (Logic & Math.) A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, “The whole is greater than a part;” “A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be.” [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Axiom, Maxim, Aphorism, Adage. An axiom is a self-evident truth which is taken for granted as the basis of reasoning. A maxim is a guiding principle sanctioned by experience, and relating especially to the practical concerns of life. An aphorism is a short sentence pithily expressing some valuable and general truth or sentiment. An adage is a saying of long-established authority and of universal application. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. “Axiomatical truth.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Commix. ] Commixture. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. complexion, fr. L. complexio. See Complex, a. ] 1. The state of being complex; complexity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet . . . it is properly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A combination; a complex. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tall was her stature, her complexion dark. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Between the pale complexion of true love,
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

A moral rather than a complexional timidity. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Constitutionally. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best-colored clay. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. connexio: cf. F. connexion. ] Connection. See Connection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do ye prove
What crucifixions are in love? Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Deflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. defluxio. ] (Med.) A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change the complexion or hue of. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Efflux. ] 1. The act of flowing out; effusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. flexio: cf. F. flexion. ] 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bending; a part bent; a fold. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Physiol.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fluxion. ] The act of flowing. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The matter that flows. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A constantly varying indication. [ 1913 Webster ]

Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Math.) (a) The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential. (b) pl. A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The merely human, the temporary and fluxional. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fluxional. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in fluxions. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Math.) See Fluxion, 6(b). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. génuflexion, fr. LL. genuflexio, fr. L. genu knee + flexio a bending, fr. flectere, flexum, to bend. See Knee, Flexible. ] The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship or reverence. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. implexio. ] Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. influxio : cf. F. influxion. ] A flowing in; infusion. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Influential. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Innitency. ] Act of leaning upon something; incumbency. [ Obs. ] Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. innoxius. See In- not, and Noxious. ] 1. Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless; innocuous. “Innoxious flames.” Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Free from crime; pure; innocent. Pope.

-- In*nox`ious*ly, adv. -- In*nox"ious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Guilty; criminal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See Noisome. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Nox"ious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obnoxius; ob (see Ob-) + noxius hurtful. See Noxious. ] 1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Obnoxious, first or last,
To basest things Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy. “The contrived and interested schemes of . . . obnoxious authors.” Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

All are obnoxious, and this faulty land,
Like fainting Hester, does before you stand
Watching your scepter. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Very offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Ob*nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Ob*nox"ious*ness, n. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Oxy- (a) + iodic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of iodine and oxygen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. prefixion. ] The act of prefixing. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. [ Obs. ] “Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Reflection. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. trans- + L. sexus sex. ] Change of sex. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]