effectuation (efektuashon)

[=Pg. ef fectuação = It. effettuazione; as effectuate + -ion.] The act of effectuating, bringing to pa , or producing a result. The ghostly or spiritual effectuation of natural occurrences has ever been and is still the mode of interpretation most readily seized upon by primitive thinking. Mind , IX. 368. First of all, we must note the distinction of immanent action and transitive action; the former is what we call action simply, and implies only a single thing, the agent; the latter, which we might with advantage call effectua tion, implies two things, i. e., a patient distinct from the agent. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 82.