Definition of Horme

1. purposeful behaviour [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horme

horizontalization
horizontalize
horizontalized
horizontalizes
horizontalizing
horizontally
horizontally challenged
horizontalness
horizontals
hork
horked
horkey
horkeys
horking
horks
horme (current term)
hormes
hormesis
hormetic
hormetically
hormion
hormogonal
hormogonia
hormogonium
hormonal gingivitis
hormonal therapy
hormonally
hormone
hormone-replacement therapy

Literary usage of Horme

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1865)
"... speed and intelligence, and altogether supremely excellent ! '—' Arrian, Barney's translation,' p. 78-82. [We consider horme to have been a female. ..."

2. Mental Conflicts and Misconduct by William Healy (1917)
"Jung has offered the name horme to apply to the energizing principle in mental ... Stoddart suggests that if a certain amount of horme or psychical energy, ..."

3. The Works of Xenophon by Xenophon, Henry Graham Dakyns (1897)
"... so that it may be left to aftertime concerning her that Xenophon the Athenian (sc. the writer Arrian himself) had a hound named horme, the fleetest, ..."

4. A Text-book of Ore and Stone Mining by Clement Le Neve Foster (1897)
"The frames made by the " Compagnie des Fonderies et Forges do 1'horme " (Loire) are almost invariably composed of two semicircles of mild steel. ..."

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