efficacious
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"Efficacious?" a raffish physician is quoted in the Journal.
From Slate • May 3, 2013
Efficacious petitions 4:3 What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
Efficacious, ef-fi-kā′shus, adj. able to produce the result intended.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times, Efficacious rhymes; Wait his returning strength.
From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Efficacious as the Christian religion has been to destroy or mitigate evil, it has failed to render the so-called Christian slaveholder better than the pagan, or to improve the condition of the bondsmen.
From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren
Vocabulary lists containing efficacious
"The Witch Boy" by Molly Knox Ostertag
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George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
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The Prince
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