What is "painless"

Usage examples of "painless".

The relief of the stricture by our new and painless method was followed by very great improvement in his condition, after which appropriate remedies for the rheumatism were administered, and the result was a very gratifying and satisfactory relief from his difficulty.

It was his home-from-home, his safe haven, his general amnestic, his painless admission of defeat.

Because it is painless, simple, and safe, it will replace other imaging techniques such as CAT scans and angiography and will become the standard procedure.

Its prayer is to hold fast the pious mind, the smooth painless life at peace with heaven and earth, instead of fighting with the invincible, aweless outcast from all law.

Our surgeons have operated upon many hundreds of bad cases by a very ingenious and almost painless method, that requires no use of bougies in the after-treatment.

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Great Abyss, to be distributed impartially amongst the Dholes, Gugs, ghasts and other dwellers in darkness whose modes of nourishment are not painless to their chosen victims.

The vision has been of God in travail of a beautiful offspring, God engendering a universe within himself in a painless labour and--rejoiced in what he has brought into being, proud of his children--keeping all closely by Him, for pleasure He has in his radiance and in theirs.

It set off what became a cascading collapse in public confidence, sealing the final days of an era of giddy markets and seemingly painless, riskless wealth.

I have come back to the Barsoom that I saved from a painless death to again save her, but this time from death in its most frightful form.

Elder stepped back out of its arc, pulled the trigger of his pistol, and Stu felt a heavy but painless boxing glove weighted with lead shot land on his chest.

Painless or painful, useless or useful, however severe or however slight, vivisection is a practice so linked with cruelty and so pernicious in tendency, THAT ANY REFORM IS IMPOSSIBLE, and it should be absolutely prohibited by law for any purpose.

The confounding of a painful vivisection and an experiment which does not cause pain--either because the experiment itself is painless, like those pertaining to the action of most drugs, or because it is a trivial one and gives little suffering--has done great damage to the cause of humanity and has placed the opponent of vivisection at a great disadvantage.

In other words, every conceivable phase of scientific experimentation upon living creatures, even if absolutely painless, should be made a legal offence.

The weakest point in the antivivisection position has always seemed to me the condemnation of every kind of experimentation on animals, however painless.