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active adjective assiduous, at work, busily emmloyed, busily engaged, busy, effective, effectual, efficient, energetic, enterprising, functioning, impiger, in a state of action, in actual process, in operation, in practice, industrious, industrius, navus, operant, performing, sedulous, trenchant, vigorous, working Associated concepts: active concealment, active negligence, active participant, active tort feasor, active trust, active wrongdoing, passive negligence, passive tort feasor See also: alert, conscious, effective, expeditious, fervent, industrious, moving, operative, potent, rapid, responsive, sedulous, vigilant, volatile, zealous ACTIVE. The opposite, of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us; passive debts are those we owe. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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What the moon is to the window, just so the Sun is to the Moon:
the active principle filling her with light. Moreover, in Stoic
philosophy, the pneuma or world soul is "intelligent and fiery
spirit"; it is one aspect of the Stoic Logos, which is the rational
and active principle of the world (Collins 1997:196-97). The active principle at work in homeopathy is a verified law of
pharmacology, the Law of Similars. |
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