NEURILITY

Etymology

Noun

neurility (usually uncountable, plural neurilities)

(obsolete, physiology) The special properties and functions of the nerves; the nervous capacity for transmitting a stimulus.

Source: Wiktionary


Neu*ril"i*ty, n. Etym: [Gr. (Physiol.)

Definition: The special properties and functions of the nerves; that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves. G. H. Lewes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Coffee Trivia

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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