Against one’s will
without one’s consent, forcibly, as in the defendant knew he could not be made to testify against his will. originally one meaning of will was “acquiescence” or “consent,” but this sense survives only in this idiom, which today nearly always implies some use of force. [ c. 1400 ]
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against the wall related terms up against the wall
- Agalactia
noun (pathol, obsolete) absence or failure of secretion of milk agalactia a·ga·lac·ti·a (ā’gə-lāk’tē-ə, -shē-ə, āg’ə-) n. absence of or faulty secretion of milk following childbirth. also called agalactosis. a’ga·lac’tous (-təs) adj.
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agalactorrhea agalactorrhea a·ga·lac·tor·rhe·a (ā’gə-lāk’tə-rē’ə) n. cessation of the flow of milk.