A person or thing exerting such power or action.
Electrostatic induction.
The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
To exert, make use of one's influence.
To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
State of having legal force.
The genuinity - as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity - of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).