Definitionn. being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming
Last update: June 30, 2015
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We may add to this another experiment, viz, that benevolence and anger, and consequently love and hatred, arise when our happiness or misery have any dependance on the happiness or misery of another person, without any farther relation. [Please select]
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I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. [Please select]
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] Those, who represent the distinction betwixt natural abilities and moral virtues as very material, may say, that the former are entirely involuntary, and have therefore no merit attending them, as having no dependance on liberty and free-will. [Please select]
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They dined at the table d'hote, but took all other meals alone, and slept in a detached wing or 'dependance' of the hotel.' [Please select]
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The principal ram-breeders are guided in the choice of their ram-lambs, more by blood or parentage, than by form, on which, at so early an age, little dependance can be placed. [Please select]
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Several Skins are also Spoiled which is a loss, as they are our principal dependance for Clothes to last us to our homes &c. [Please select]
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