Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
a.) possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.
2. (a.) Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.
3. (a.) of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.
4. (a.) Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.
5. (a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.
Greek
4423. ptoesis -- a fluttering, excitement, hence terror ... Cognate: 4423 -- properly, "caused by any emotion, but especially by fear, hence, "
(); a scare or
nervous excitement" (, 310). See 4422 ().
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Introduction
... the colt to shy, an assistant holds the paper on the opposite side of the road,
so that the animal shall have the kink taken out of its nervous system and its ...
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History of Public Speaking
... His nervous temperament clung to him, however, since he made this significant
confession after long years of practise in public speaking. ...
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Worry Versus Peace
... desire to do something or get something done; but I also know that, as with bad
tempers, a good deal is put down to physical and nervous disorders which ought ...
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Chapter seven
... He took one last nervous puff on his cigar, tossed it into the street and walked
along with a pale look on his face. Rachel was surprised, but not startled. ...
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Chapter twelve
... "Hadn't we better take a policeman along?" said one of the girls with a nervous
laugh. ... As they neared the district they grew more and more nervous. ...
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Continues to Evangelize. Dr. Cook's Prescription. Incident at ...
... Why, sir, at least two inches of your spinal marrow is inflamed, produced by nervous
exhaustion, the result of overwork and no mental recreation. ...
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Sanctification.
... If they indulge themselves in a stimulating diet, and in the use of those condiments
that irritate and rasp the nervous system, their bodies will be, of course ...
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Egg-Shell Christians
... It is true that some are of a highly nervous temperament and naturally feel things
more keenly than others, but it is not this natural nervous sensitiveness ...
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Love in the Triune Being of God.
... And altho God has so constituted our nervous system that suffering causes us discomfort,
that the sight of pain affects us painfully, so that from a mere ...
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A Rationale of Sleep, of Yawning, and of Dreams .
... 4. And for this reason, if the apparatus of the organs of sense should be closed
and sleep hindered by some occupation, the nervous system, becoming filled ...
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Thesaurus
Nervous (1 Occurrence)... 2. (a.) Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in
sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a
nervous writer.
.../n/nervous.htm - 7kNerve (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying
tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various ...
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Sympathetic (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (a.) of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches;
produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervous system or some part of it ...
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Nest (22 Occurrences)
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Gifts (144 Occurrences)
... The diseases cured appear for the most part to have been not organic but functional;
and many of them would now be classed as nervous disorders. ...
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Welcomed (30 Occurrences)
... affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience
which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with ...
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Feeling (59 Occurrences)
... five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the
body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to ...
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Timidity (2 Occurrences)
... affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience
which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with ...
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Recalls (2 Occurrences)
... affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience
which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with ...
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Drawn (131 Occurrences)
... affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience
which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with ...
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Resources
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