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- Efficacy - n. - Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.
- Nullity - n. - The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.
- Avail - v. i. - To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
- Fleabane - n. - One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria.
- Virtueless - a. - Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.
- Virtually - adv. - In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
- Charm - n. - Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
- Inefficaciously - adv. - without efficacy or effect.
- Quacksalver - n. - One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
- Stand - n. - To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
- Sacramentarian - n. - One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.
- Efficacy - n. - Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.