devitalization

A graceful girl in pink, with floating scarf, and gleaming _kris_ in her spangled sash, exhibits wonderful skill in the supple play of wrist and fingers, through the process known as devitalization, a form of drill which gives to the arm

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Greek State loses around 2 billion Euros every year from the tax evasion of employers who promote uninsured labor, thus contributing to the devitalization of the pension system.

Greece's debt: The Hypocrisy of Neoliberalism 2009

It also stood for collective devitalization and depression in a society preceived by its members as lacking spiritual roots.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

Pictures of life in the shadows during this phase of devitalization are not very abundant, nor do they convey the essential misery into which a whole generation was born, in which it lived and died.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

I studied the Mason method, and found many helpful, illuminating ideas in regard to relaxation and devitalization.

Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Harriette Brower 1898

But relaxation, even at first, is not the only thing; after devitalization comes organization, firmness and solidity -- in the right places.

Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Harriette Brower 1898

In other words, I am neither an anarchist who wants no government, namely unrestrained devitalization, nor a socialist, whose cry is for all government -- that is, restriction and rigidity.

Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Harriette Brower 1898

If the infection takes place in Peyer's patches, typhoid fever is the consequence; if the local trouble is of the cecum, typhlitis will result, and if the local devitalization is in the appendix, brought on from the irritating effects of a fecal calculus, appendicitis will result.

Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895

Figs. 72 and 79 fairly indicate the effects of undue mental activity, the intellect causing vital expenditure resulting in the devitalization of the blood.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

The managers who oversaw the devitalization of America were part of the Greatest Generation.

doggdot.us 2008