Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Action of or as of a reagent; reflex agency or activity; counter-agency; reaction.

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  • noun power to react

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Examples

  • Will is the sum of physical forces necessary for self-preservation, is reagency against the formidable rivalry of every other organization.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

  • In him, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency might best be studied.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885

  • In him, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency might best be studied.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Epictetus only, that would suffer under this law of Christianity viewed in its reagency, but also Abraham, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Hezekiah.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • But, surely, as against that one poison then familiarly used for domestic murders, a chemical reagency might have been devised in the quality of the glass.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • But, surely, as against that one poison then familiarly used for domestic murders, a chemical reagency might have been devised in the quality of the glass.

    Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • In _him_, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency, might best be studied.

    Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

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