Energy

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Capacity for performing work.

II. Energy ·noun Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.

III. Energy ·noun Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.

IV. Energy ·noun Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit;

— said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.