Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 18
Acrid (a.) Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.
Acrid (a.) Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing.
Acrid poison, A poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied. Acridity
Acrid (a.) Strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"; "the acrid smell of burning rubber" [syn: pungent, acrid].
Acrid (a.) Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic].
Acridity (n.) Alt. of Acridness.
Acridness (n.) The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
Syn: acridness
Acridness (n.) Having an acrid smell.
Syn: pungency
Acridity (n.) Having an acrid smell.
Acridity (n.) Extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" [syn: acridity, acridness].
Acridity (n.) The quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone [syn: acridity, acridness].
Acridly (adv.) In an acid manner.
Acrimonious (a.) （言語、態度等）刻薄的；嚴厲的；辛辣的；激烈的 Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic] -- Harvey.
Acrimonious (a.) Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.
Acrimonious (a.) Marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce" [syn: {acrimonious}, {bitter}].
Acrimonious (a.) (Formal) 激烈的；尖刻的；充滿火藥味的 Full of anger, arguments, and bad feeling.
// An acrimonious dispute.
// Their marriage ended eight years ago in an acrimonious divorce.
Acrimoniously (adv.) 毒辣地；尖刻地；刺激地 In an acrimonious manner.
Acrimoniousness (n.) （言語、態度等）刻薄；嚴厲；辛辣；激烈 The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.
Acrimonies (n. pl. ) of Acrimony.
Acrimony (n.) 嚴厲，辛辣，刻毒 A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] -- Bacon.
Acrimony (n.) （言語、態度等的）尖刻；毒辣；辛辣；激烈 Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners.
John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. -- South.
Syn: Acrimony, Asperity, Harshness, Tartness.
Usage: These words express different degrees of angry feeling or language. Asperity and harshness arise from angry feelings, connected with a disregard for the feelings of others. Harshness usually denotes needless severity or an undue measure of severity. Acrimony is a biting sharpness produced by an imbittered spirit. Tartness denotes slight asperity and implies some degree of intellectual readiness. Tartness of reply; harshness of accusation; acrimony of invective.
In his official letters he expressed, with great acrimony, his contempt for the king's character. -- Macaulay.
It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. -- Johnson.
A just reverence of mankind prevents the growth of harshness and brutality. -- Shaftesbury. Acrisia
Acrimony (n.) A rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness].
Acrisia (n.) Alt. of Acrisy.
Acrisy (n.) Inability to judge.
Acrisy (n.) (Med.) Undecided character of a disease. [Obs.]
Acrita (n. pl.) (Zool.) The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.
Acritan (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita.
Acritan (n.) An individual of the Acrita.
Acrite (a.) (Zool.) Acritan – Owen..
Acritical (a.) (Med.) Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess. [R.] AS
Acritical (a.) Without a crisis (as of some diseases).
Acritochromacy (n.) Color blindness; achromatopsy.
Acritude (n.) Acridity; pungency joined with heat. [Obs.]
Acrity (n.) Sharpness; keenness. [Obs.] Acroamatic
Acroamatic (a.) Alt. of Acroamatic
Acroamatical (a.) 深奧的，難解的 Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.
Acroatic (a.) Same as Acroamatic.
Acrobat (n.) 表演特技者，雜技演員 One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.
Acrobat (n.) One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.
Acrobat (n.) An athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination.
Acrobat, () A product from Adobe System, Inc., for manipulating documents stored in Portable Document Format. Acrobat provides a platform-independent means of creating, viewing, and printing documents.
Acrobatic (a.) Pertaining to an acrobat. -- Ac`ro*bat"ic*al*ly, adv.
Acrobatic (a.) Vigorously active; "an acrobatic dance"; "an athletic child"; "athletic playing"; "gymnastic exercises" [syn: acrobatic, athletic, gymnastic]
Acrobatism (n.) Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.
Acrocarpous (a.) (Bot.) Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
Acrocarpous (a.) (Bot.) Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.
Acrocarpous (a.) (Of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem [ant: pleurocarpous].
Acrocephalic (a.) Characterized by a high skull.
Acrocephaly (n.) Loftiness of skull.
Acrocephaly (n.) A congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape [syn: oxycephaly, acrocephaly].
Acroceraunian (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder-smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. -- Shelley.
Acrodactylum (n.) (Zool.) The upper surface of the toes, individually.
Acrodont (n.) (Zool.) One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.
Acrodont (a.) Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.
Acrodont (n.) An animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets.
Acrogen (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.
The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), The age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.
Acrogen (n.) Any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem.
Acrogenous (a.) (Bot.) Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.
Acrolein (n.) (Chem.) A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats containing glycerin. Its vapors are intensely irritating. -- Watts.
Acrolein (n.) A pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene [syn: propenal, acrolein].
Acrolith (n.) (Arch. & Sculp.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. -- Elmes. Acrolithan
Acrolithan (a.) Alt. of Acrolithic.
Acrolithic (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith.
Acromegaly (n.) (Med.) 前端肥大症 Chronic enlargement of many bones of the skeleton, especially bones of hands, feet and face; the condition is due to excessive secretion of growth hormone.
Acromegaly (n.) Enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) [syn: acromegaly, acromegalia].
Acromegaly (n.) Disorder marked by progressive enlargement of the head, face, hands, feet, and thorax, due to the excessive secretion of growth hormone.
Acromegaly (n.) Enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) [syn: {acromegaly}, {acromegalia}].
Acromegaly (n.) 肢端肥大症 Acromegaly is a disorder that results from excess growth hormone (GH) after the growth plates have closed. [3] The initial symptom is typically enlargement of the hands and feet. There may also be enlargement of the forehead, jaw, and nose. Other symptoms may include joint pain, thicker skin, deepening of the voice, headaches, and problems with vision. Complications of the disease may include type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, and high blood pressure. [3]
Acromegaly is typically due to the pituitary gland producing too much growth hormone. In more than 95% of cases the excess production is due to a benign tumor, known as a pituitary adenoma. The condition is not inherited from a person's parents. Rarely acromegaly is due to tumors in other parts of the body. Diagnosis is by measuring growth hormone after a person has drunk glucose or by measuring insulin-like growth factor I in the blood. After diagnosis, medical imaging of the pituitary is carried out to look for an adenoma. If excess growth hormone is produced during childhood the result is gigantism. [3]
Treatment options include surgery to remove the tumor, medications, and radiation therapy. Surgery is usually the preferred treatment and is most effective when the tumor is smaller. In those in whom surgery is not effective, medications of the somatostatin analogue or GH receptor antagonist type may be used. The effects of radiation therapy are more gradual than that of surgery or medication. [3] Without treatment those affected live on average 10 years less; however, with treatment life expectancy is typically normal. [5]
Acromegaly affects about 6 per 100,000 people. It is most commonly diagnosed in middle age. [3] Males and females are affected with equal frequency. [6] The first medical description of the disorder occurred in 1772 by Nicolas Saucerotte. [7] [8] The term is from Greek ἄκρον akron meaning "extremity" and μέγα mega meaning "large". [3]
Acromial (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the acromion. -- Dunglison.
Acromion (n.) (Anat.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.
Acromion (n.) The outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade [syn: acromion, acromial process].
Acromonogrammatic (a.) Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends. Acronyc
Acronyc (a.) Alt. of Acronychal.
Acronychal (a.) (Astron.) Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical.
Note: The word is sometimes incorrectly written acronical, achronychal, acronichal, and acronical.
Acronycally (adv.) In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vice versa.
Acronyctous (a.) (Astron.) Acronycal.
Acronym (n.) 首字母縮略字 A word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name.
ACRONYM, () Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning (slang).
ACRONYM, () Abbreviation by CROping Names that Yield Meaning (slang).
Acronym, () An identifier formed from some of the letters (often the initials) of a phrase and used as an abbreviation.
A TLA is a meta-acronym, i.e. an acronym about acronyms.
This dictionary (FOLDOC) contains a great many acronyms; see the contents page (/contents/all.html) for a list.
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Acrook (adv.) Crookedly. [R.] -- Udall.
Acropetal (a.) (Bot.) Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.
Acropetal (a.) Of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from base to apex [ant: basipetal].
Acrophobia (n.) 恐高症 A morbid fear of great heights.
Acrophobia (n.) Abnormal dread of beig in a high place: fear of heights. -- Acrophobe (n.), -- Acrophobic (adj.)
Acrophony (n.) The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
Acrophony (n.) Naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter.
Compare: Phonetic
Phonetic (a.) (Specialized) 語音的 Using special signs to represent the different sounds made by the voice in speech.
// Pronunciations are shown in this dictionary using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Compare: Phonetic
Phonetic (a.) (Specialized) （拼寫系統）表音的，與發音近似的，拼音的 A spelling system can be described as phonetic if you can understand how words are pronounced simply by looking at their spelling.
Compare: Phonetically
Phonetically (adv.) 按照發音地；語音學上 In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.
// The hard words in the passage have been spelled phonetically.
// She pronounced Leicester phonetically as "Ley-ces-ter', but really we say "Lester."
Acropodium (n.) (Zool.) The entire upper surface of the foot.
Acropolis (n.) The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
Acropolis (n.) The citadel in ancient Greek towns.
Acropolitan (a.) Pertaining to an acropolis.
Acrospire (n.) (Bot.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.
Acrospire (v. i.) To put forth the first sprout.
Acrospore (n.) (Bot.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
Acrosporous (a.) Having acrospores.
Across (n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. -- Dryden.
To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. -- Freeman.
To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.
Across (adv.) From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. -- Shak.
Across (adv.) Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.]
The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. -- Bp. Hall.
Across (adv.) To the opposite side; "The football field was 300 feet across".
Across (adv.) Transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn: across, crosswise, crossways].
Acrostic (n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
Acrostic (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.
Double acrostic, A species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words. Acrostic
Acrostic (n.) Alt. of Acrostical.
Acrostical (n.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
Acrostic (n.) The same down as across [syn: word square, acrostic].
Acrostic (n.) Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message.
Acrostically (adv.) After the manner of an acrostic.
Acrotarsium (n.) (Zool.) The instep or front of the tarsus.
Acroteleutic (n.) (Eccles.) The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.
Acroter (n.) (Arch.) Same as Acroterium.
Acroterial (a.) Pertaining to an acroterium; as, acroterial ornaments. -- P. Cyc.
Acroteria (n. pl. ) of Acroterium.
Acroterium (n.) (Arch.) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. -- J. H. Parker.
Acroterium (n.) (Arch.) One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.
Acrotic (a.) (Med.) Pertaining to or affecting the surface of the body. AS
Acrotic (a.) (Med.) Pertaining to acrotism. -- Dorland. [AS]
Acrotism (n.) Lack or defect of pulsation. AS
Acrotomous (a.) (Min.) Having a cleavage parallel with the base.
Acrylic (a.) (Chem.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical ({R.CH:CH.CO-) of which acrolein ({H2C:CH.CHO}) is the hydride; as, acrylic acid. The characteristic residue in an acrylic compound is the carbonyl group attached directly to an ethylenic carbon.
Acrylic (a.) Of or pertaining to a derivative of acrylic acid, or an object consisting mostly of an acrylic resin; as, an acrylic window.
Acrylic (n.) Polymerized from acrylonitrile [syn: acrylic fiber, acrylic]
Acrylic (n.) A glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives [syn: acrylic, acrylic resin, acrylate resin].
Acrylic (n.) Used especially by artists [syn: acrylic, acrylic paint].
Acrylic (n.) A synthetic fabric.
Act (n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. -- Wordsworth.
Hence, in specific uses:
Act (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.
Act (n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. -- Abbott.
Act (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
Act (n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
Act (n.) A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. [Obs.]
The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. -- Hooker.
Act (n.) Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). "In act to shoot." -- Dryden.
This woman was taken . . . in the very act. -- John viii. 4.
Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder.
Act of bankruptcy (Law), An act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt.
Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-F['e].
Act of God (Law), An inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard.
Act of grace, An expression often used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at the beginning of a new reign.
Act of indemnity, A statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. -- Abbott.
Act in pais, A thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record.
Syn: See Action.
Acted (imp. & p. p.) of Act.
Acting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Act.
Act (v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.]
Self-love, The spring of motion, acts the soul. -- Pope.
Act (v. t.) To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic]
That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. -- Jer. Taylor.
Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. -- Barrow.
Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. -- Cowper.
Act (v. t.) To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
Act (v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
Act (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
With acted fear the villain thus pursued. -- Dryden.
To act a part, To sustain the part of one of the characters in a play; hence, to simulate; to dissemble.
To act the part of, To take the character of; to fulfill the duties of.
Act (v. i.) To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
Act (v. i.) To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest. -- Pope.
Act (v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
Act (v. i.) To perform on the stage; to represent a character.
To show the world how Garrick did not act. -- Cowper.
To act as or To act for, To do the work of; to serve as.
To act on, To regulate one's conduct according to.
To act up to, To equal in action; to fulfill in practice; as, he has acted up to his engagement or his advantages.
Act (n.) A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body [syn: act enactment].
Act (n.) Something that people do or cause to happen [syn: act, deed, human action, human activity].
Act (n.) A subdivision of a play or opera or ballet.
Act (n.) A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did" [syn: act, routine, number, turn, bit].
Act (n.) A manifestation of insincerity; "he put on quite an act for her benefit".
Act (v.) Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" [syn: act, move] [ant: forbear, refrain].
Act (v.) Behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" [syn: act, behave, do].
Act (v.) Play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master" [syn: act, play, represent].
Act (v.) Discharge one's duties; "She acts as the chair"; "In what capacity are you acting?"
Act (v.) Pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad" [syn: act, play, act as].
Act (v.) Be suitable for theatrical performance; "This scene acts well".
Act (v.) Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water" [syn: work, act].
Act (v.) Be engaged in an activity, often for no particular purpose other than pleasure.
Act (v.) Behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting" [syn: dissemble, pretend, act].
Act (v.) Perform on a stage or theater; "She acts in this play"; "He acted in `Julius Caesar'"; "I played in `A Christmas Carol'" [syn: act, play, roleplay, playact].
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ACT, () Civil law, contracts. A writing which states in a legal form that a thing has been said, done, or agreed. In Latin, Instrumentum. Merl. Rep.
ACT. () In the legal sense, this word may be used to signify the result of a public deliberation, the decision of a prince, of a legislative body, of a council, court of justice, or a magistrate. Also, a decree, edict, law, judgment, resolve, award, determination. Also, an instrument in writing to verify facts, as act of assembly, act of congress, act of parliament, act and deed. See Webster's Dict. Acts are civil or criminal, lawful or unlawful, public or private.
ACT. () Public acts, usually denominated authentic, are those which have a public authority, and which have been made before public officers, are authorized by a public seal, have been made public by the authority of a magistrate, or which have been extracted and been properly authenticated from public records.
ACT. () Acts under private signature are those which have been made by private individuals, under their hands. An act of this kind does not acquire the force of an authentic act, by being registered in the office of a notary. 5 N. S. 693; 8 N. S. 568 ; 3 L. R. 419 ; 8 N. S. 396 ; 11 M. R. 243; unless it has been properly acknowledged before the officer, by the parties to it. 5 N. S. 196.
ACT. () Private acts are those made by private persons, as registers in relation to their receipts and expenditures, schedules, acquittances, and the like. Nov. 73, c. 2 ; Code, lib. 7, tit. 32, 1. 6; lib. 4, t. 21; Dig. lib. 22, tit.. 4; Civ. Code of Louis. art. 2231 to 2254; Toull. Dr. Civ. Francais, tom. 8, p. 94.
ACT, () Legislation. A statute or law made by a legislative body; as an act of congress is a law by the congress of the United States; an act of assembly is a law made by a legislative assembly. If an act of assembly expire or be repealed while a proceeding under it is in fieri or pending, the proceeding becomes abortive; as a prosecution for an offence, 7 Wheat. 552; or a proceeding under insolvent laws. 1 Bl. R. 451; Burr. 1456 ; 6 Cranch, 208 ; 9 Serg. & Rawle, 283.
ACT, () Acts are general or special; public or private. A general or public act is a universal rule which binds the whole community; of which the courts are bound to take notice ex officio.
ACT, () Explanatory acts should not be enlarged by equity Blood's case, Comb. 410; although such acts may be allowed to have a retrospective operation. Dupin, Notions de Droit, 145. 9.
ACT, () Private or special acts are rather exceptions, than rules; being those which operate only upon particular persons and private concerns; of these the courts are not bound to take notice, unless they are pleaded. Com. 85, 6; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 105.
ACT, () evidence. The act of one of several conspirators, performed in pursuance of the common design, is evidence against all of them. An overt act of treason must be proved by two witnesses. See Overt.
ACT, () The terra. acts, includes written correspondence, and other papers relative to the design of the parties, but whether it includes unpublished writings upon abstract questions, though of a kindred nature, has been doubted, Foster's Rep. 198 ; 2 Stark. R. 116, 141.
ACT, () In cases of partnership it is a rule that the act or declaration of either partner, in furtherance of the common object of the association, is the act of all. 1 Pet. R. 371 5 B. & Ald. 267.
ACT, () And the acts. of an agent, in pursuance of his authority, will be binding on his principal. Greenl. Ev. Sec. 113.
Actable (a.) Capable of being acted. -- Tennyson.
Actable (a.) Capable of being acted; suitable for the stage; "an actable scene" [ant: unactable].
Actinal (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth. -- L. Agassiz.
Actinal (a.) (Of radiate organisms) located on the surface or end on which the mouth is situated [ant: abactinal].