EFFECTIVELY
EFFECT'IVELY, adverb With effect; powerfully; with real operation.This effectively resists the devil.[In this sense, effectually is generally used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EFFECTLESS
EFFECT'LESS, adjective Without effect; without advantage; useless.
EFFECTOR
EFFECT'OR, noun One who effects; one who produces or causes; a maker or creator.
EFFECTUAL
EFFECT'UAL, adjective Producing an effect, or the effect desired or intended; or having adequate power or force to produce the effect. The means employed were effectualAccording...
EFFECTUALLY
EFFECT'UALLY, adverb With effect; efficaciously; in a manner to produce the intended effect; thoroughly. The weeds on land for grain must be effectually subdued. The city is eff...
EFFECTUATE
EFFECT'UATE, verb transitive To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfil; as, to effectuate a purpose or desire.
EFFECTUATED
EFFECT'UATED, participle passive Accomplished.
EFFECTUATING
EFFECT'UATING, participle present tense Achieving; performing to effect.
EFFEMINACY
EFFEM'INACY, noun [from effeminate.] The softness, delicacy and weakness in men, which are characteristic of the female sex, but which in males are deemed a reproach; unmanly de...
EFFEMINATE
EFFEM'INATE, adjective [Latin effoeminatus, from effoeminor, to grow or make womanish, from foemina, a woman. See Woman.]1. Having the qualities of the female sex; soft or delic...
EFFEMINATELY
EFFEM'INATELY, adverb In a womanish manner; weakly; softly.1. By means of a woman; as effeminately vanquished.
EFFEMINATENESS
EFFEM'INATENESS, noun Unmanlike softness.
EFFEMINATION
EFFEMINA'TION, noun The state of one grown womanish; the state of being weak or unmanly. [Little used.]
EFFERVESCE
EFFERVESCE, verb intransitive efferves'. [Latin effervesco, from ferveo, to be hot, to rage.See Fervent.] To be in natural commotion, like liquor when gently boiling; to bubble ...
EFFERVESCENCE
EFFERVES'CENCE, noun A kind ofnatural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid, which takes place, when some part of the mass flies off in an elastic form, producing innumerable sm...
EFFERVESCENT
EFFERVES'CENT, adjective Gently boiling or bubbling by means of the disengagement of an elastic fluid.
EFFERVESCIBLE
EFFERVES'CIBLE, adjective That has the quality of effervescing; capable of producing effervescence.A small quantity of effervescible matter.
EFFERVESCING
EFFERVES'CING, participle present tense Boiling; bubbling, by means of an elastic fluid extricated in the dissolution of bodies.
EFFETE
EFFE'TE, adjective [Latin effoetus, effetus; ex and foetus, embryo.]1. Barren; not capable of producing young, asanimal, or fruit, as the earth. An animal becomes effete by losi...
EFFICACIOUS
EFFICA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin efficax, from efficio. See Effect.]Effectual; productive of effects; producing the effect intended; having power adequate to the purpose intended;...
EFFICACIOUSLY
EFFICA'CIOUSLY, adverb Effectually; in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. We say, a remedy has been efficaciously applied.
EFFICACIOUSNESS
EFFICA'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being efficacious.
EFFICACY
EF'FICACY, noun [Latin efficax.] Power to produce effects; production to the effect intended; as the efficacy of the gospel in converting men from sin; the efficacy of prayer; t...
EFFICIENCE
EFFI'CIENCEEFFI'CIENCY, noun [Latin efficiens, from efficio. See Effect.]1. The act of producing effects; a causing to be or exist; effectual agency.The manner of this divine ef...
EFFICIENCY
EFFI'CIENCY, n. [L. efficiens, from efficio. See Effect.]1. The act of producing effects; a causing to be or exist; effectual agency.The manner of this divine efficiency is far ...
EFFICIENT
EFFI'CIENT, adjective Causing effects; producing; that causes any thing to be what is is. The efficient cause is that which produces; the final cause is that for which it is pro...
EFFICIENTLY
EFFI'CIENTLY, adverb With effect; effectively.