Hypnotic suggestion gives him a means of directly combating many cases of sexual excitation, or at least of attenuating them, by directing the cerebral activity of the patient to other subjects.
I do not speak here of the simulation of sentiments of love, for it is too banal, and there is no need to be too exacting over this point, for there are strong attenuating circumstances.
Another process for attenuating the atmosphere over the surface of fluids during evaporation is by the action of an air-pump.
The various qualities that have been ascribed to it by some persons such as dispelling or causing flatulency, removing dizziness of the head, attenuating the blood, causing biliousness, &c.
The idea ofattenuating the virus used for inoculation, and of making the effects minimal, was not his.
The movement towards attenuating the virus used for inoculation was general in Europe.
The evil of attenuating that sentiment is smaller than the evil of allowing one set of persons to realise their own notions of happiness, at the expense of all the rest of the world.
For the felonies they can always discover "the attenuating circumstances;" for the petty larcenies of fashion they have nothing but whipcord.
They are known by the same marks and tokens attenuating medicines are, viz.
In some parts of Germany, large quantities of this root are candied, and used as a stomachic, for strengthening the tone of the viscera in general, and for attenuating tenacious juices.
It is principally recommended in melancholic, scorbutic, and cutaneous disorders; for opening obstructions of the viscera, attenuating and promoting the evacuations of viscid juices.
In the new path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating circumstances.
They become perfect adepts in apologies, and with one cast of the net draw in a whole shoal of attenuating circumstances.
All these were "attenuating circumstances," and as such she accepted them; and the measure of her submission was filled up when she received a portrait of the little girl, painted by a native artist.
If too much twist were inserted at any stage, the drawing rollers of the immediately succeeding machine could not carry on the attenuating process satisfactorily.
Hargreaves had also shown how to produce a thread by attenuating the cotton by means of a travelling carriage.
The most important feature of the invention, of course, was the drawing out or attenuating of the cotton by rollers revolving at different speeds.
The chief difference between these rollers and those of the previously described machines being in the lessened diameters of the mule rollers, and consequently attenuating the cotton to a much greater extent.
On the other hand, they in whose favor such attenuating circumstances do not militate, do the office of the demons.
His refinement and superiority come from his intelligence, and these qualities, far from attenuating his guilt, only serve to aggravate it.
These may, perhaps, be called attenuating circumstances; but they do not go so far as wholly to suppress liberty and responsibility.
In the appreciation of other people's acts, we may allow the attenuating circumstances as large a margin as possible, but in the case of self-government, one should make it as strict and narrow as possible.
Whence Epispasticks, and the most Volatil Attenuating Medicines are more necessarily required, and ought to be oftner repeated, than in preceeding Symptoms.
Its purpose is that of attenuating the law by declaring that all omitted from the list of nobles in the statute, or who have changed their name, and are known by another, are not to be considered nobles.
But it is well known to-day that men can practise a sexual communism which would be impossible if this jealousy were not capable of attenuating itself and even of disappearing when necessary.
The profanation may be permitted or even ordered, but, as we shall see below, only on condition that rites attenuating or expiating it precede or accompany it.
This firmer repression is demonstrated in spite of the continued increase of attenuating circumstances, which rose at the Assizes from 50 per cent.
Ellero, to specify attenuating circumstances, on each of which a special question ought to be put to them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attenuating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
