Word Meanings - SECRETO-MOTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• INFLUENCER
  One who, or that which, influences.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• CAUSATION
  The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is
• CAUSTIC; CAUSTICAL
  1. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing. 2. Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark. Caustic curve , a curve to which the ray of light, reflected
• CAUSALITY
  The faculty of tracing effects to their causes. G. Combe. (more info) 1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• EREMACAUSIS
  A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
• CATACAUSTIC
  Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.
• GALVANOCAUSTIC
  Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.
• HYPERSECRETION
  Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.