a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character | the activity of managing or exerting control over something |
animation and energy in action or expression | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc |
an inclination or tendency of a certain kind | a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine |
the intended meaning of a communication | power to direct or determine |
any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings | discipline in personal and social activities |
the vital principle or animating force within living things | great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity |
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment |
the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) | the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. |
| a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance |
| a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another |
| the state that exists when one person or group has power over another |