- Life's purpose
- Lifes purpose
- Directionless
- Having no goal or direction
- lacking purpose
- Melissa became frivolous
- Not pointed
- Vagrant
- Wayward
- Decide to do puzzle again?
- Firmness of purpose
- Fixed purpose
- Settle a dispute
- To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the
constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes,
to melt, or dissolve.
- To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of
complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free
from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up,
or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
- To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to
inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
- Egg-hatching
- A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a
brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any
process.
- The development of a disease from its causes, or its
period of incubation. (See below.)
- A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of
dreaming oracular dreams.
- Essential
- Required
- Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be
avoided; inevitable.
- Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with,
without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable;
requiste; essential.
- Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; --
opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a
question much discussed.
- A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some
purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an
essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
- A privy; a water-closet.
- The doctrine of the final causes of things
- the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena
of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only
by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical
explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine
of adaptation to purpose.
- The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival,
motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it,
access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward;
-- opposed to from.
- Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a
time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being
regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going
to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.
- In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of
application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or
indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs
with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon
that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation;
as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this
seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to
the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous
liquor.
- As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last
defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it
as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to
go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my
utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost
constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no
prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or
subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's
country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the
infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed
the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt.
xi. 8).
- In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to
has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
- Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as;
as, they met us to the number of three hundred.
- Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to
his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to
the prejudice of the state.