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Definition of Reagency
1. a substance with a characteristic reaction [n REAGENCIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reagency
Literary usage of Reagency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Analogical Philosophy: Being a Primary View of the Principles by George Field (1839)
"Of the latter we have new proofs in the recent experiments of Mr. Kempt, who has
succeeded, by the reagency of cold, in solidifying liquid gases; namely, ..."
2. Rational Cosmology: Or, The Eternal Principles and the Necessary Laws of the by Laurens Perseus Hickok (1858)
"The agency and reagency of the organism upon itself is distinguished, and the
feeling is a conscious desire; but the self is not recognized, ..."
3. A Practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of spermatorrhœa by François Lallemand, Henry John McDougall (1866)
"The secretion of the mucous membrane of the urethra is usually acid, but at times
an alkaline reagency predominates, arising from a peculiar pathological ..."
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