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Age"less (&?;), a. Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

A*gen" (&?;), adv. & prep. See Again. [Obs.]

A"gen*cy (&?;), n.; pl. Agencies (&?;). [agentia, fr. L. agens, agentis: cf. F. agence. See Agent.] 1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

3. The place of business of am agent.

Syn. -- Action; operation; efficiency; management.

A"gend (&?;), n. See Agendum. [Obs.]

||A*gen"dum (&?;), n.; pl. Agenda (&?;). [L., neut. of the gerundive of agere to act.] 1. Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.

2. A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

Ag`e*nes"ic (&?;), a. [See Agensis.] (Physiol.) Characterized by sterility; infecund.

||A*gen"e*sis (&?;), n. [Gr. 'a priv. + &?; birth.] (Physiol.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

||Ag`en*ne"sis (&?;), n. [Gr. 'a priv. + &?; an engendering.] (Physiol.) Impotence; sterility.

A"gent (&?;), a. [L. agens, agentis, p. pr. of agere to act; akin to Gr. &?; to lead, Icel. aka to drive, Skr. aj. √2.] Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

A"gent, n. 1. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.

Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. Dryden.

2. One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

3. An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.

A*gen"tial (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

A"gent*ship (&?;), n. Agency. Beau. & Fl.

||A*ger"a*tum (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a sort of plant; 'a priv. + &?; old age.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender- blue flowers in dense clusters.

Ag*gen`er*a"tion (&?;), n. [L. aggenerare to beget in addition. See Generate.] The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

||Ag"ger (&?;), n. [L., a mound, fr. aggerere to bear to a place, heap up; ad + gerere to bear.] An earthwork; a mound; a raised work. [Obs.] Hearne.

Ag"ger*ate (&?;), v. t. [L. aggeratus, p. p. of aggerare. See Agger.] To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.

Ag`ger*a"tion (&?;), n. [L. aggeratio.] A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

Ag`ger*ose" (&?;), a. In heaps; full of heaps.

Ag*gest" (&?;), v. t. [L. aggestus, p. p. of aggerere. See Agger.] To heap up. [Obs.]

The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller.