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Definition of Impellent
1. Adjective. Forcing forward or onward; impelling. "An impellent cause"
Definition of Impellent
1. a. Having the quality of impelling.
2. n. An impelling power or force.
Definition of Impellent
1. Adjective. Having the quality of being impelling. ¹
2. Noun. An impelling power or force. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impellent
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impellent
Literary usage of Impellent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"(a) Analysis of the impellent Mode of Obligation. An attempt to analyse more
completely the sense of obligation shows that it is, in one sense, ..."
2. The Divine Pedigree of Man, Or, The Testimony of Evolution and Psychology to by Thomson Jay Hudson (1899)
"CHAPTER VII. RECAPITULATION. Instincts of the Unicellular Organism. — Its impellent
Energy. — The Constant Force back of Evolution. — The Law is Progress. ..."
3. A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials: From by Isaac Todhunter (1893)
"He concluded that the impulse terminated whenever the two bars had not the same
speed at their impellent terminals. This, as we shall see, is not true, ..."
4. The Elastical Researches of Barré de Saint-Venant by Isaac Todhunter (1889)
"He had forgotten that physically they can never sustain a stretch at the impellent
terminals. In fact Cauchy's condition of excess of speed in the preceding ..."
5. A Treatise on the Steam Engine in Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam by Artizan club (London, England) (1853)
"After the same maner, though alternately, the receiver P 2 is filled with water
by means of the suction, and then emptied by the impellent force of the ..."
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