Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Impetus
Subjects in this Topic:
(1):
(n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.
(2):
(n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.
(3):
(n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.