Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) To change, modify, transform; alteraten to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect beneficially……

Physiol. Pertaining to that 'faculty' of man, seated in the brain and the nervous system, which 'animates', i.e. produces and controls movement, perception, and thought; vertu or spirit animal. …

Physiol. & psych. An inherent urge or drive attributed to the various organs of the body (such as the genitals, the stomach, the senses), to the mental 'faculties', or to the organism as a whole……

(a) To move or proceed upward; ascend, climb, mount, soar; ascenden up(ward); board (a ship); light (upon sb.); (b) to ascend (a hill); rise to (the heavens); also, lift up, raise [quot. a1450]……

Physiol. Assimilation (of nutriments). …

(a) Physiol. To assimilate; (b) ben assimilat, be similar (to sth.), resemble. …

Physiol. vertu (pouere) assimilatif, the power to assimilate nutriments; -- also person. …

(a) An attribute; (b) physiol. quality of 'humors'. …

Physiol. Producing 'cold' quality. …

(a) Of people: banded together; (b) physiol. accumulated (liquid); closed up (wound); contracted (muscle). …

(a) The act or process of joining, combining, or uniting two or more things; the fact of being joined or united, a union; (b) sexual union or intercourse; (c) a juncture or joint. …

Of a person: (a) to compel or force (sb. to do sth.), make (sb. do sth.); also, oblige, induce; (b) constreinen herte, constreinen wil, to exert pressure or compulsion on (someone's) heart or will……

Gram. & rhet. (a) Formation or construction of a sentence; rightful (order of) construccioun, normal order of syntactic elements; (b) a rhetorical figure; figure of construccioun. …

Of physical agents: (a) of fire: to reduce (sth.) to ashes, consume, destroy; also fig.; (b) of heat: to dispel moisture; consumen awei; hence also, destroy life, reduce a corpse (to bones); (c) of……

(a) To digest (food, drink); carry on digestive processes; defien with teth, masticate; god to defien, beneficial to digestion; ppl. defiing, promoting digestion, digestible; (b) to be digested; (c)……

(a) To digest (food, drink); carry on digestive processes; (b) to make (one's stomach) digest; (c) of wine: to cause (food) to be digested; (d) of plants: to transform and assimilate (fluids). …

As adj.: (a) med. able to break down pathological matter, humors, etc.; medecin digestif, a digestive medicine, a drug that prepares pathological matter for evacuation; (b) physiol. having to do with……

(a) The digestion of food and drink; first digestioun, the digestive process carried on principally in the stomach and intestines; (b) the capacity for digesting food or drink; (c) digestibleness; of……

(a) Power to dispose of wealth; (b) eccl. stewardship; (c) physiol. function. …

(a) Preparation, planning, arranging; also, a plan or arrangement; taken disposicioun, to make arrangements; (b) construction or execution according to a plan; building (of a city); structure (of the……