Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being efficacious; efficaciousness; efficacy; effectiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Efficacy.
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- noun
Efficacy .
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Examples
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When a person becomes a known risk, the insurance pays for their enrollment in a case-management system for that particualr illness, which essentially is the previous, with the uncertainty in the length and efficacity of their particular treatment transferred from the patient to the health-case provider.
Better than Health Insurance?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We must also increase the monitoring of anti-malaria drug efficacity.
WHO Urges Action to Prevent Resistance to Anti-Malarial Drug 2011
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No, for there to be confidence in the efficacity of the sacrament of penance, it can't depend on the completely secret dispositions of the priest.
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I think it's important though, to examine from time-to-time, the efficacity of one's marketing strategies to see if they're really working.
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(As will be seen, in quantum physics these relationships are reversed and enriched: randomness and chaos underlie and constitute the efficacity of both manifest order and manifest chance.)
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001
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Otherwise this unknowable is not only compatible with knowledge but is the efficacity of knowledge, perhaps of all possible knowledge, assuming the world is like this (as opposed to the Blakean world).
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001
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Irish rock star Bono and US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill were due to start a three-day visit to Uganda on Sunday, the third leg of an unusual tour focussing on HIV/AIDS and the efficacity of aid relief in Uganda.
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Palissot, * at sixty years old, was destined to expiate in a prison a satire upon Rousseau, written when he was only twenty, and escaped, not by the interposition of justice, but by the efficacity of a bon mot.
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However, notwithstanding the strong recommendations of the remedy on the part of the above named practitioners and others, the efficacity of it as a general remedy for scarlet-fever has not been confirmed.
Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde
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Palissot, * at sixty years old, was destined to expiate in a prison a satire upon Rousseau, written when he was only twenty, and escaped, not by the interposition of justice, but by the efficacity of a bon mot.
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