A dispensation in the strict sense is granted when a legislator relaxes for a particular case the obligation of a law, although the subject-matter of the law still remains.
The commutation of a vow into something less good can be granted only by the one who has a special faculty; for this kind of commutation partakes of the nature of a dispensation, inasmuch as it relaxes to some extent the original vow.
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts--both to an extreme.
There is nothing so sure of succeeding as not to be over brilliant, as to be entirely wrapped up in one's self, and endowed with a perseverance which, in spite of all the rebuffs it may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit of its object.
Wherever love exercises its creative energy the possessive instinct relaxes its hold.
The will is that particular aspect of the soul-monad by means of which it consciously intensifies or relaxes the outward pressure of emotion.
The ends are approximated by placing the limb in an attitude which relaxes the muscle, and the position is maintained by bandages, splints, or special apparatus.
The symptoms are those common to all contusions, and the patient complains of severe pain on attempting to use the muscle, and maintains an attitude which relaxes it.
The patient lies down for a while in the middle of the day and relaxes every muscle of his body.
Even in the afternoon, when nature is exhausted by care and fatigue, we fly for refreshment to tea, which, instead of bracing, still further relaxes the unnerved system.
This distemper of remedy, grown habitual, relaxesand wears out, by a vulgar and prostituted use, the spring of that spirit which is to be exerted on great occasions.
The same discipline which hardens their hearts relaxes their morals.
The wise parent, and wise he must be at this time, relaxes his care in just proportion as the child achieves ability to do things for himself.
Besides the vasoconstrictor center about which we have just been talking there is in the brain stem a center which relaxes the tension of the muscles in the walls of the blood vessels.
Occasionally the sphincter between the stomach and the esophagus relaxes unexpectedly; this is said to happen more often in smokers than in nonsmokers.
What actually happens is that the sphincter relaxes under the stimulus of surplus hydrochloric acid and then as soon as a little food has passed through closes again.
He pauses a moment to rub his hands before the blaze, and then gingerly relaxes into the depths of the armchair, as though fearful his comfort would give way ere fully attained.
On further testing this with the galvanic or continuous current it responds, but the contraction is not brisk but begins slowly and relaxes slowly, though the contraction as a whole may be larger than that of a normal muscle.
If the muscle be wasted from disuse or some local cause unconnected with its nerve-supply, the contraction is smaller, and both arises and relaxes more slowly.
Because the air does not contain its full proportion of oxygen: and 2ndly--Because the damp relaxes their nervous system, and makes them drowsy.
As the air does not contain its full proportion of oxygen, they feel a difficulty in breathing: and 2ndly--As damp relaxes their nerves, they feel languid and uneasy.
External warmth relaxesthe skin and its blood-vessels.
It not only affects the wind, but relaxes the nerves in a way to make them less vigorous for the coming contest.
If he keeps his mouth firmly shut whilst contracting the muscles round the eyes, and then suddenly relaxes his lips, he will feel that the pressure on his eyes immediately increases.
The helpless man unconsciously contracts the muscles of his forehead which are antagonistic to those that cause a frown, and thus raises his eyebrows; at the same time he relaxes the muscles about the mouth, so that the lower jaw drops.
When the muscle 6 contracts, the muscle 3 relaxes and the fore-arm is extended.
Each band relaxes and contracts successively, and thus presses the alimentary ball downward and onward to the stomach.
He now relaxes a little in his Puritanism; he gives dinners, invites guests, and notes that he has to pray against being too particular with regard to his guests.
He relaxes {29} in his determination to avoid whist, and indulges so far that he puts a note of exclamation in his journal at having returned to his chambers one night without having had a game.
The Christian relaxes in the temperate use of all the gifts of Providence.
Pierre's anxiety becomes so great that he relaxes habitual craft of a lifetime in his solicitude for Paul's safety.
Great in outline, pride, force and velocity, it never relaxes its grim grip from the first shrill dissonance to the overwhelming chordal close.
He never relaxes his theme, and its fluctuating surprises are many.
Physical weariness limits obedience, and needful sleep relaxes nervous tension, so that many a strenuous worker and noble aspirant falls beneath his daylight self in wakeful night seasons.
Such clinging demands effort; for every hand relaxes its grasp, unless ever and again tightened.
But as the tension relaxesor the culture enlarges, the moral instincts reassert their existence; and the monstrous distortions incident to any theory which denies their authority become too repulsive to be borne.
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