What is the meaning of MATTER. Phrases containing MATTER
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An oath administered to a witness, usually before being sworn in chief, requiring him to speak the truth, or make true answers in reference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to give evidence.
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Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
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Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services.
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One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc.
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Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging.
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The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort.
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Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
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Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
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The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
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Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.
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A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
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Full of substance or matter; important.
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Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; -- chiefly in the phrases what matter ? no matter, and the like.
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To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
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The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.
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The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study.
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Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
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An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
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