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[Lat. operans, pr. par. of operor =to work; opus (gen it, operis ) = work.] The act or state of operating; operation. "[They] do effect Rare i ues by their operance ." Beaum. & Fiet. (f): Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 3. top-er-ant, a. & s. [Lat. operans, pr. par. of operor=to work.] A. As adj .: Operating, effective; having power to produce an effect. "'Faith, I must leave thee love, and shortly too; My operant powers their functions leave to do." Shakesp.: Hamlet , iii. 2. B. As subst.: One who operates; an operator. "They dare know of what may seem deform The supreme fair sole operant." Cole ridge: Religious Musings. õp'-er-āte, v. i. . [Lat. operatus , pa. par. of operor to work; opus (gen it. operis ) =work; Fr. opérer; Ital. operare .] A. Intransitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To act; to perform work; to exercise power or strength, physical or mechanical. "Nature and grace must operate uniformly; even as gravitation operates uniformly upon matter."-Jortin, Di . 1. 2. To have or produce a desired result or effect; to act. [II. 1.] "The plain convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live." -Swift. II. Technically : 1. Med .: To act or produce a certain effect on the human system. 2. Surg .: To perform an operation upon a human body. *B. Transitive : 1. To effect; to produce or accomplish as an agent; to cause. 2. To work; to set or keep in operation or activity, op-er-at-ic, *op-er-at-ic-al, a. [Eng. opera ; t connect., and suff. -ic, -ical .] Pertaining to opera; designed for or appropriate to opera; resembling opera. op-er-ā-tion, *o-per-a-ci-on, s . [Fr. opération , from Lat. operationem , acc us. of operatio =work, from operatus , pa. par. of operor =to work, to operate (q.v.); Sp. opera cion ; Ital. operazione .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act or proce of operating; the exertion of power or strength, physical, mechanical, or moral; agency, action. "In architecture, as in all other operative arts, the and must direct the operation ."- Reliquia Wottoniance, p. 6. 2. Action; power or quality of producing a desired effect or result; mode or power of acting; active qualities; as, the operation of a medicine. 3. An effect or result produced; influence. "That false fruit Far other operation first display'd." Milton: P. L., ix. 1,012. 4. A series of acts or proce es in experiments; proce , manipulation; as, operations in chemistry. II. Technically: 1. Math .: Something to be done; generally some transformation to be made upon quantities, which transformation is indicated either by rules or by symbols. "The very quantities which we should otherwise have to calculate by long and tedious operations."-Herschel: Astronomy (ed. 5th), § 292. 2916 2. Mil . & Naval : The carrying out of preconcerted plans by regular movements; a series of military or naval movements. "In war every operation , from the greatest to the small. est, ought to be under the absolute direction of one mind."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. v. 3. Surg .: An act performed by a properly qualified person upon a human body, either with the hand or by means of an instrument, for the purpose of healing the part operated on, or of restoring it to its normal condition. õp-er-ā-tive, a. & s. [Fr. opérat if; Sp. & Ital. operativo.] A. As adjective : 1. Having the acting or of exciting ophidia õp-er-ōse, *op'-er-ous, a . [Lat. operosus , from opus (gen it, operis )=work; Ital. & Sp. operoso .] Laborious; full of or attained with labor, trouble, and tediousne . "All these operose proceedings were adopted by one of the most decided tyrants in the rolls of history." -Burke: French Revolution. õp-er-ōse-lý, adv. [Eng. operose; -ly.] In an operose manner. op-er-ōse-ne , s. [Eng. operose; -ne .] The quality or state of being operose; laboriousne . "God and nature do things every where in the most frugal and compendious way, and with the least operosene ."-Cudworth: Intell. System , p. 672. top-er-os-i-ty, s. [Latin ope rosit as, from oper ble agency; active in producing results or effects. "The operative strength of a thing may continue the same."-South: Sermons, vol. vi., ser. I. 2. Efficacious, effective; producing effects; having influence. 3. Practical; worked or carried on by mechanical or manual power, as opposed to mental or intellectual; as, an operative art. B. As subst.: A skilled workman; an artisan, a mechanic. õp-er-ā-tive-ly, adv. [Eng. operative; -ly.] In an operative manner. "If the art of the shipwright were in the timber itself, operatively and effectually, it would there act just as nature doth."-Cudworth: Intell. System, p. 155. op-er-ā-tõr, s . [Lat., from operatus , pa. par. of operor to work, from opus (gen it. operis )=work; Fr. opérateur ; Sp. operador ; Ital. opera tore .] 1. Ord . Lang .: One who or that which operates or produces an effect. "Chemical and other accidental discoveries have been made, besides, and beyond and without the intention of the operator."- Hale: Orig. of Mankind, p. 154. the human body, either with the hand or by means 2. Surg.: One who performs an operation upon IMG:content-0303.png:[blocks in formation]