Rigor

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rigor \Ri"gor\, n. [L. See {Rigor}., below.]
     1. Rigidity; stiffness.
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     2. (ed.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin;
        a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill


        preceding a fever.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              The rest his look
              Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. --Milton.
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     2. (Med.) See 1st {Rigor}, 2.
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     3. Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor
        of the storm; the rigors of winter.
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     4. Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness;
        hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
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              All his rigor is turned to grief and pity. --Denham.
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              If I shall be condemn'd
              Upon surmises, . . . I tell you
              'T is rigor and not law.              --Shak.
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     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}.
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     6. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain,
        abstinence, or mortification.
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              The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor
              and austerity of a capuchin.          --Addison.
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     7. Violence; force; fury. [Obs.]
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              Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could
              stay.                                 --Spenser.
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     Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity;
          austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]
       3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
          of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
          [syn: {severity}, {harshness}, {rigour}, {inclemency}, {hardness},
           {stiffness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  240 Moby Thesaurus words for "rigor":
     Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism,
     Waldensianism, Yoga, absolute zero, absoluteness, abstinence,
     abstruseness, accuracy, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony,
     acuteness, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction,
     aggravation, algidity, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism,
     animality, annoyance, arduousness, asceticism, asperity,
     astringency, atrocity, attention to detail, attention to fact,
     austerity, barbarity, bite, bitterness, bleakness, blight,
     bloodlust, bothersomeness, briskness, brutality, bummer,
     burdensomeness, care, care for truth, causticity, chill,
     chilliness, circumstantiality, cold, coldness, complexity,
     complication, conscientiousness, cool, coolness, coolth,
     correctness, crispness, criticality, criticalness, cross,
     cryogenics, cryology, curse, decrease in temperature, delicacy,
     destructiveness, detail, difficulties, difficultness, difficulty,
     downer, edge, eremitism, exactingness, exactitude, exactness,
     exquisiteness, extremity, faithfulness, fasting, faultlessness,
     ferociousness, fidelity, fierceness, fineness, finicality,
     finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, firmness, flagellation,
     flawlessness, force, freezing point, freshness, frigidity,
     frostiness, fundamentalism, furiousness, fussiness, gelidity, grip,
     hairiness, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness,
     hardship, harshness, iciness, impetuosity, impliability,
     inclemency, inexorability, inflexibility, inhospitableness,
     inhumanity, intense cold, intensity, intricacy, irritation,
     keenness, laboriousness, literalism, literality, literalness,
     low temperature, maceration, malignity, mathematical precision,
     mendicantism, mercilessness, meticulousness, mindlessness,
     minuteness, monachism, monasticism, mordacity, mordancy,
     mortification, murderousness, niceness, nicety, nip, nippiness,
     obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, onerousness, oppressiveness,
     orthodoxy, particularity, particularness, perfection, pitilessness,
     plight, poignancy, point, preciseness, precisianism, precision,
     predicament, pressure, punctilio, punctiliousness, punctuality,
     purism, puritanism, rawness, refinement, relentlessness, renitence,
     renitency, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigorism,
     rigorousness, roughness, ruggedness, savagery, scrupulosity,
     scrupulousness, sea of troubles, self-denial, self-mortification,
     severity, sharp air, sharpness, starchiness, sternness, stiffness,
     sting, strenuousness, stress, stress of life, strictness,
     stridency, stringency, stubbornness, subtlety, tartness, tautness,
     teeth, tenseness, tension, tensity, terrorism, textualism,
     the letter, tightness, toilsomeness, toughness, trenchancy, trial,
     tribulation, trouble, troubles, troublesomeness, unbendingness,
     uncompromisingness, ungentleness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness,
     vale of tears, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness,
     vicissitude, violence, virulence, visitation, voluntary poverty