active principle

The active principle characterizes matter, and gives it its quality.

The individual active principles allow different processing speed for acquiring the information.

In only very few instances is chaos an evil power, an active principle.

The latter is the active principle after being released from the polymer.

Prayer puts into force an active principle of doing.

Qi, in traditional Chinese culture, is an active principle forming part of any living thing.

Either Jefferson was a fool in his zealotry or an active principle of evil.

A chemical or synthetic drug may contain a single, therefore an unbalanced, but very powerful active principle.

Only a few investigations have considered the question whether the active principles of ololiuhqui could find a useful application in medicine.

The chief active principle of peyote is an alkaloid called mescaline.

Efforts were made to isolate the active principles in dead shark bodies that repelled other sharks.

Perhaps that was the active principle.

Shortly before sundown we took the drug, not the mushrooms, but rather their active principle, 20 mg psilocybin each.

The active principle in the eraser pill is an enzyme for just that radical."

However, these 'impurities' are a necessary part of the whole because they work in harmony with the active principle, thus preventing side-effects.

The form was an active principle.

Psilocin is the major active principle in psilocybin mushrooms.

Its main active principle, quinine, is now chemically synthesized.

Western occultists describe Chokhma as the creative, active principle behind the cosmos.

The active principle of these green, glossy leaves is a chemical compound that closely resembles amphetamine.

These studies on the active principles of ololiuhqui seeds, although they were published only in professional journals, had an unexpected sequel.

The active principle is still unknown.

He conceived of matter as a passive possibility that something might be actualized by an active principle, a substantial form, giving it real existence.

But if the active principle is available in pure form, it becomes possible to manufacture a stable pharmaceutical preparation, exactly quantifiable by weight.

The effects are thought to be attributable to the action of harmine, a very stable indole that is the active principle in the plant.