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Influence
IN'FLUENCE, n. [L. influens, influo, to flow in; in and fluo, to flow.] Literally, a flowing in, into or on, and referring to substances spiritual or too subtil to be visible, like inspiration. Hence the word was formerly followed by into.
God hath his influence into the very essence of all things.
It is not followed by on or with.
1. In a general sense, influence denotes power whose operation is invisible and known only by its effects, or a power whose cause and operation are unseen.
2. The power which celestial bodies are supposed to exert on terrestrial; as the influence of the planets on the birth and fortunes of men; an exploded doctrine of astrology.
3. Moral power; power of truth operating on the mind, rational faculties or will, in persuading or dissuading, as the influence of motives, of arguments,or of prayer. We say, arguments had no influence on the jury. The magistrate is not popular; he has no influence with the people; or he has great influence with the prince.
4. Physical power; power that affects natural bodies by unseen operation; as, the rays of the sun have an influence in whitening cloth, and in giving a green color to vegetables.
5. Power acting on sensibility; as the influence of love or pity in sympathy.
6. Spiritual power, or the immediate power of God on the mind; as divine influence; the influences of the Holy Spirit.
IN'FLUENCE, v.t. To move by physical power operating by unseen laws or force; to affect.
These experiments succeed after the same manner in vacuo, as in the open air, and therefore are not influenced by the weight or pressure of the atmosphere.
1. To move by moral power; to act on and affect, as the mind or will, in persuading or dissuading; to induce. Men are influenced by motives of interest or pleasure. An orator may influence the people to take arms, or to abandon an enterprise.
2. To move, as the passions, as, to influence one by pity.
3. To lead or direct. This revelation is sufficient to influence our faith and practice.
influence appears in definitions for these words:
Accurate Activity After Appulsive Areopagus Ascendant Ascendency Astrology Attach Attaching Attract Attractive Auspices Authority Auxiliary Avarice Awe Awed Barberry Bask Bearing Bellatrix Benign Bind Blaast Blast Bring Buy Cabirian Calculalation Calculate Calorimotor Cause Charm Chief Client Command Commandning Communicate Concernment Conciliate Conciliated Concur Concurrence Conjure Conquer Conqueror Conscientious Consequence Consideration Contribute Contribution Contributive Counter-influence Countersway Covert Cranioscopy Creature Credit Crucify Demagogue Demon Demoniac Demoralize Destroy Determine Director Disenchanting Disinterested Divinely Do Dragoon Draw Drift Drive Ductility Effusion Electioneering Electricity Electro-motion Emancipate Emancipation Embrace Embraced Embracer Embracery Embracing Emissary Empire Enchantment Enchantress Exorcise Faith Fanciful Fancifulness Fascinate Fascination Favoritism Flattery Foreknowledge Gain Govern Governed Government Grace Great Guide Hand Harden Head Heavnely Herbage Himself Hold Holding Humorsome Impulse Impulsion Inauspicious Incite Independence Independent Independently Indifferent Induce Induced Inducement Inducer Influence Influential Influentially Influx Influxive Inoperation Inspiration Inspire Instance Interest Jovial Just Lead Light Lightness Live Local Look Lunacy Lunary Lunatic Magic Magnetism Magnitude Malignant Malignantly Material Meliorating Menstruum Mercurial Mercurialist Moment Monthly Moonstruck Move Much Mythology Narrows Object Occasion Operate Ostracism Outweigh Overawe Overpersuade Overrule Overshadow Part Penetrate Persuade Persuaded Persuader Persuasible Persuasibleness Persuasiveness Physically Place Planet-struck Planetary Pliable Pliableness Pliancy Pliant Potency Potent Power Pre-eminence Pre-engage Pre-engaged Precedence Predominance Predominant Predominantly Predominate Predominating Predomination Preponderate Prescribe Preservative Press Prevail Prevailing Prevalence Put React Reasonable Regard Reign Render Respect Sanction Saturnine Self-determining Self-moved Selfish Semi-pelagian Shadow Sin Sober Soft Solar Sphere Spirit Spiritually Star Starred Superior Surrender Susceptible Sway Swayed Sweet Swing Take Talisman Talismanic Tender-hearted Touch Unbeguile Unbribed Unconscionable Uncorrupt Under Underline Uninfluenced Unpersuadable Unphysicked Unswayable Unswayed Venality Virtually Vitiate Voltaism Voluntarily Voluntary Walk Weight Wield Will Win Work Wrought
Accurate Activity After Appulsive Areopagus Ascendant Ascendency Astrology Attach Attaching Attract Attractive Auspices Authority Auxiliary Avarice Awe Awed Barberry Bask Bearing Bellatrix Benign Bind Blaast Blast Bring Buy Cabirian Calculalation Calculate Calorimotor Cause Charm Chief Client Command Commandning Communicate Concernment Conciliate Conciliated Concur Concurrence Conjure Conquer Conqueror Conscientious Consequence Consideration Contribute Contribution Contributive Counter-influence Countersway Covert Cranioscopy Creature Credit Crucify Demagogue Demon Demoniac Demoralize Destroy Determine Director Disenchanting Disinterested Divinely Do Dragoon Draw Drift Drive Ductility Effusion Electioneering Electricity Electro-motion Emancipate Emancipation Embrace Embraced Embracer Embracery Embracing Emissary Empire Enchantment Enchantress Exorcise Faith Fanciful Fancifulness Fascinate Fascination Favoritism Flattery Foreknowledge Gain Govern Governed Government Grace Great Guide Hand Harden Head Heavnely Herbage Himself Hold Holding Humorsome Impulse Impulsion Inauspicious Incite Independence Independent Independently Indifferent Induce Induced Inducement Inducer Influence Influential Influentially Influx Influxive Inoperation Inspiration Inspire Instance Interest Jovial Just Lead Light Lightness Live Local Look Lunacy Lunary Lunatic Magic Magnetism Magnitude Malignant Malignantly Material Meliorating Menstruum Mercurial Mercurialist Moment Monthly Moonstruck Move Much Mythology Narrows Object Occasion Operate Ostracism Outweigh Overawe Overpersuade Overrule Overshadow Part Penetrate Persuade Persuaded Persuader Persuasible Persuasibleness Persuasiveness Physically Place Planet-struck Planetary Pliable Pliableness Pliancy Pliant Potency Potent Power Pre-eminence Pre-engage Pre-engaged Precedence Predominance Predominant Predominantly Predominate Predominating Predomination Preponderate Prescribe Preservative Press Prevail Prevailing Prevalence Put React Reasonable Regard Reign Render Respect Sanction Saturnine Self-determining Self-moved Selfish Semi-pelagian Shadow Sin Sober Soft Solar Sphere Spirit Spiritually Star Starred Superior Surrender Susceptible Sway Swayed Sweet Swing Take Talisman Talismanic Tender-hearted Touch Unbeguile Unbribed Unconscionable Uncorrupt Under Underline Uninfluenced Unpersuadable Unphysicked Unswayable Unswayed Venality Virtually Vitiate Voltaism Voluntarily Voluntary Walk Weight Wield Will Win Work Wrought
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