the act of mastering; overpowering; subduing; subdueing by charms; conjuring up; summoning (spirits etc.); subduing a disease; healing; cure; enforcing payment or recovery (of a debt); bringing about; carrying out; accomplishment; fullilment; completion; perfection; establishment of a truth; proof; demonstration; reason or premiss (in a syllogism); any means of effecting or accomplishing; any agent or instrument or implement or utensil or apparatus; an expedient; requisite for (gen. or comp.); a means of summoning or conjuring up a spirit (or deity); means or materials of warfare; military forces; army or portion of an army; conflict; battle; means of correcting or punishing (as "a stick"); means of enjoyment; goods; commodities; efficient cause or source (in general); organ of generation (male or female); (in gram.) the sense of the instrumental or agent (as expressed by the case of a noun); preparing; making ready; preparation (of food); obtaining; procuring; gain; acquisition; finding out by calculation; computation; fruit; result; the conjugational affix or suffix which is placed between the root and terminations; matter; material; substance; ingredient; drug; medicine; good works; penance; self-mortification; attainment of beatitude; conciliation; propitiation; worship; killing; destroying; killing metals; depriving them by oxydation etc. of their metallic properties (esp. said of mercury); burning on a funeral pile; obsequies; setting out; proceeding; going; going quickly; going after; following; argument