STRESS, n.
1. Force urgency pressure importance that which bears with most weight as the stress of a legal question. Consider how much stress is laid on the exercise of charity in the New Testament.
This, on which the great stress of the business depends--
2. Force or violence as stress of weather.
3. Force violence strain.
Though the faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength.
STRESS, To press to urge to distress to put to difficulties. Little used.