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rigor

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rigor  \Ri"gor\,  n.  [L.  See  {Rigor}.,  below.] 
  1.  Rigidity;  stiffness. 
 
  2.  (ed.)  A  sense  of  chilliness,  with  contraction  of  the  skin; 
  a  convulsive  shuddering  or  tremor,  as  in  the  chill 
  preceding  a  fever. 
 
  {Rigor  caloris}[L.,  rigor  of  heat]  (Physiol.),  a  form  of 
  rigor  mortis  induced  by  heat,  as  when  the  muscle  of  a 
  mammal  is  heated  to  about  50[deg]C. 
 
  {Rigor  mortis}[L.,  rigor  of  death],  death  stiffening;  the 
  rigidity  of  the  muscles  that  occurs  at  death  and  lasts 
  till  decomposition  sets  in  It  is  due  to  the  formation  of 
  myosin  by  the  coagulation  of  the  contents  of  the 
  individual  muscle  fibers. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rigor  \Rig"or\,  n.  [OE.  rigour,  OF  rigour,  F.  rigueur  from  L. 
  rigor,  fr  rigere  to  be  stiff.  See  {Rigid}.]  [Written  also 
  {rigour}.] 
  1.  The  becoming  stiff  or  rigid;  the  state  of  being  rigid; 
  rigidity;  stiffness;  hardness. 
 
  The  rest  his  look  Bound  with  Gorgonian  rigor  not  to 
  move  --Milton. 
 
  2.  (Med.)  See  1st  {Rigor},  2. 
 
  3.  Severity  of  climate  or  season;  inclemency;  as  the  rigor 
  of  the  storm;  the  rigors  of  winter. 
 
  4.  Stiffness  of  opinion  or  temper;  rugged  sternness; 
  hardness;  relentless  severity;  hard-heartedness;  cruelty. 
 
  All  his  rigor  is  turned  to  grief  and  pity.  --Denham. 
 
  If  I  shall  be  condemn'd  Upon  surmises,  .  .  .  I  tell 
  you  'T  is  rigor  and  not  law.  --Shak. 
 
  5.  Exactness  without  allowance,  deviation,  or  indulgence; 
  strictness;  as  the  rigor  of  criticism;  to  execute  a  law 
  with  rigor;  to  enforce  moral  duties  with  rigor;  --  opposed 
  to  {lenity}. 
 
  6.  Severity  of  life;  austerity;  voluntary  submission  to  pain, 
  abstinence,  or  mortification. 
 
  The  prince  lived  in  this  convent  with  all  the  rigor 
  and  austerity  of  a  capuchin.  --Addison. 
 
  7.  Violence;  force;  fury.  [Obs.] 
 
  Whose  raging  rigor  neither  steel  nor  brass  could 
  stay.  --Spenser. 
 
  Syn:  Stiffness;  rigidness;  inflexibility;  severity; 
  austerity;  sternness;  harshness;  strictness;  exactness. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rigor 
  n  1:  something  hard  to  endure;  "the  asperity  of  northern  winters" 
  [syn:  {asperity},  {grimness},  {hardship},  {rigour},  {severity}, 
  {rigorousness}] 
  2:  the  quality  of  being  logically  valid  [syn:  {cogency},  {validity}, 
  {rigour}]




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