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Terms
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Calling
- CALLING, n.
1. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in
order, or a call of names with a view to obtain an answer, as in
legislative bodies.
2. Vocation; profession; trade; usual occupation, or
employment.
- Pope. Swift. 1 Cor. 7:20
- 3. Class of persons engaged in any profession or employment.
- 4. Divine summons, vocation, or invitation.
- Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure. 2
Pet. 1.
- 1 : a strong inner
impulse toward a particular course of action esp. when
accompanied by conviction of divine influence
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Character
- CHARACTER, n.
1. A mark made by cutting or engraving, as on stone, metal or
other hard material; hence, a mark or figure made with a pen or
style, on paper, or other material used to contain writing; a
letter, or figure used to form words, and communicate ideas.
Characters are literal, as the letters of an alphabet; numeral,
as the arithmetical figures; emblematical or symbolical, which
express things or ideas; and abbreviations, as C. For centrum, a
hundred; lb. For libra, a pound; A.D. Anno domini; &c.
2. A mark or figure made by stamping or impression, as on
coins.
3. The manner of writing; the peculiar from of letters used by a
particular person.
You know the character to be your brothers
4. The peculiar qualities, impressed by nature or habit on a
person, which distinguish him from others; these constitute real
character, and the qualities which he is supposed to possess,
constitute his estimated character, or reputation. Hence we say,
a character is not formed, when the person has not acquired
stable and distinctive qualities.
5. An account, description or representation of any thing,
exhibiting its qualities and the circumstances attending it; as,
to give a bad character o a town, or to a road.
6. A person; as, the assembly consisted of various
characters, eminent characters, and low characters.
- All the characters in the play appeared to advantage.
- The friendship of distinguished characters.
7. By way of eminence, distinguished or good qualities; those
which are esteemed and respected; and those which are ascribed
to a person in common estimation. We enquire whether a stranger
is a man of character.
8. Adventitious qualities impressed by office, or station; the
qualities that, in public estimation, belong to a person in a
particular station; as when we ask how a magistrate, or
commander supports his character.
9. In natural history, the peculiar discriminating qualities
or properties of animals, plants and minerals.
- These properties, when employed for the purpose of
discriminating minerals, are called characters.
- 2 a : one of the
attributes or features that make up and distinguish an
individual
6 : moral excellence and firmness <a
man of sound character>
7 a : a person marked by notable or conspicuous traits <quite
a character>
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Character Qualities
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Contentment
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Destiny
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Frugal
- FRU'GAL, a. [L. frugalis. See Fruit.]
Economical in the use or appropriation of money, goods or
provisions of any kind; saving unnecessary expense, either of
money or of any thing else which is to be used or consumed;
sparing; not profuse, prodigal or lavish. We ought to be frugal
not only in the expenditure of money and of goods, but in the
employment of time. It is followed by of, before the thing
saved; as frugal of time. It is not synonymous with
parsimonious, nor with thrifty, as now used.
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Homestead
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Legacy
- LEG'ACY, [L. legatum, from lego, to send, to bequeath.]
A bequest; a particular thing, or certain sum of money given
by last will or testament.
Good counsel is the best legacy a father can leave to his
child.
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Ministry
- MIN'ISTRY, n. [L. ministerium.] The office, duties or
functions of a subordinate agent of any kind.
1. Agency; service; aid; interposition; instrumentality.
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- He directs the affairs of this world by the ordinary
ministry of second causes.
2. Ecclesiastical function; agency or service of a minister
of the gospel or clergyman in the modern church, or of priests,
apostles and evangelists in the ancient. Acts 1. Rom.12. 2
Tim.4. Num.4.
3. Time of ministration; duration of the office of a minister,
civil or ecclesiastical.
- The war with France was during the ministry of Pitt.
4. Persons who compose the executive government or the council
of a supreme magistrate; the body of ministers of state.
5. Business; employment.
- He abhorred the wicked ministry of arms.
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Purpose
- PUR'POSE, n. [L. propositum, propono; pro, before,and
pono, to set or place.]
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be
reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is
directed in any plan, measure or exertion. We believe the
Supreme Being created intelligent beings for some benevolent and
glorious purpose, and if so, how glorious and benevolent must be
his purpose in the plan of redemption! The ambition of men is
generally directed to one of two purposes, or to both; the
acquisition of wealth or of power. We build houses for the
purpose of shelter; we labor for the purpose of subsistence.
2. Intention; design. This sense, however, is hardly to be
distinguished from the former; as purpose always includes the
end in view.
- Every purpose is established by counsel. Prov.20.
- Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who
worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Eph.1.
3. End; effect; consequence, good or bad. What good purpose will
this answer? We sometimes labor to no purpose. Men often employ
their time, talents and money for very evil purposes.
- To what purpose is this waste? Matt.26.
4. Instance; example. [Not in use.]
5. Conversation. [Not in use.]
Of purpose, on purpose, with previous design; with the mind
directed to that object. On purpose is more generally used, but
the true phrase is of purpose.
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Self-Reliance
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RELI'ANCE, n. [from rely.] Rest or repose
of mind, resulting from a full belief of the veracity or
integrity of a person, or of the certainty of a fact; trust;
confidence; dependence. We may have perfect reliance on the
promises of God; we have reliance on the testimony of witnesses;
we place reliance on men of known integrity, or on the strength
and stability of government.
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Self-Government
- GOV'ERNMENT, n. Direction; regulation. These precepts
will serve for the government of our conduct.
1. Control; restraint. Men are apt to neglect the government
of their temper and passions.
2. The exercise of authority; direction and restraint
exercised over the actions of men in communities, societies or
states; the administration of public affairs, according to
established constitution, laws and usages, or by arbitrary
edicts. Prussia rose to importance under the government of
Frederick II.
3. The exercise of authority by a parent or householder.
Children are often ruined by a neglect of government in parents.
- Let family government be like that of our heavenly Father,
mild, gentle and affectionate.
4. The system of polity in a state; that form of fundamental
rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed, or
by which individual members of a body politic are to regulate
their social actions; a constitution, either written or
unwritten, by which the rights and duties of citizens and public
officers are prescribed and defined; as a monarchial government,
or a republican government.
- Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority
of the people alone, without the pretence of miracle or
mystery, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of
mankind.
5. An empire, kingdom or state; any territory over which the
right of sovereignty is extended.
6. The right of governing or administering the laws. The king
of England vested the government of Ireland in the lord
lieutenant.
7. The persons or council which administer the laws of a
kingdom or state; executive power.
8. Manageableness; compliance; obsequiousness.
9. Regularity of behavior. [Not in use.]
10. Management of the limbs or body. [Not in use.]
11. In grammar, the influence of a word in regard to
construction,as when established usage required that one word
should cause another to be in a particular case or mode.
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Simplicity
- SIMPLIC'ITY, n. [L. simplicitas.]
1. Singleness; the state of being unmixed or uncompounded; as
the simplicity of metals or of earths.
2. The state of being not complex, or of consisting of few
parts; as the simplicity of a machine.
3. Artlessness of mind; freedom from a propensity to cunning
or stratagem; freedom from duplicity; sincerity. Marquis Dorset,
a man for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much
regarded.
4. Plainness; freedom from artificial ornament; as the
simplicity of a dress, of style, of language, &c. Simplicity
in writing is the first or excellences.
5. Plainness; freedom from subtilty or abstruseness; as the
simplicity of scriptural doctrines or truth.
6. Weakness of intellect; silliness.
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Godly simplicity, in Scriptures, is a fair open profession
and practice of evangelical truth, with a single view to
obedience and to the glory of God.
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Virtue
- VIRTUE, n. vur'tu. [L. virtus, from vireo, or its root.
See Worth.] The radical sense is strength, from straining,
stretching, extending. This is the primary sense of L. vir, a
man.]
1. Strength; that substance or quality of physical bodies, by
which they act and produce effects on other bodies. In this
literal and proper sense, we speak of the virtue or virtues of
plants in medicine, and the virtues of drugs. In decoctions, the
virtues of plants are extracted. By long standing in the open
air, the virtues are lost.
2. Bravery valor. This was the predominant signification of
virtus among the Romans.
- Trust to thy single virtue.
- [This sense is nearly or quite obsolete.]
3. Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the
abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation
to the moral law. In this sense, virtue may be, and in many
instances must be, distinguished from religion. The practice of
moral duties merely from motives of convenience, or from
compulsion, or from regard to reputation, is virtue, as distinct
from religion. The practice of moral duties from sincere love to
God and his laws, is virtue and religion. In this sense it is
true,
- That virtue only makes our bliss below.
- Virtue is nothing but voluntary obedience to truth.
4. A particular moral excellence; as the virtue of temperance,
of chastity, of charity.
- Remember all his virtues.
5. Acting power; something efficacious.
- Jesus, knowing that virtue had gone out of him, turned -
Mark 3.
6. Secret agency; efficacy without visible or material action.
- She moves the body which she doth possess,
- Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch.
7. Excellence; or that which constitutes value and merit.
- - Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their
fable, the sticking in of sentences.
8. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
- Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
9. Efficacy; power.
- He used to travel through Greece by virtue of this fable,
which procured him reception in all the towns.
10. Legal efficacy or power; authority. A man administers the
laws by virtue of a commission.
- In virtue, in consequence; by the efficacy or authority.
- This they shall attain, partly in virtue of the promise of
God, and partly in virtue of piety.
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Vision
- VI'SION, n. s as z. [L. visio, from video, visus.]
1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
- Faith here is turned into vision there.
2. The faculty of seeing; sight. Vision is far more perfect and
acute in some animals than in man.
3. Something imagined to be seen, though not real; a phantom;
a specter.
- No dreams, but visions strange.
4. In Scripture, a revelation from God; an appearance or
exhibition of something supernaturally presented to the minds of
the prophets, by which they were informed of future events. Such
were the visions of Isaiah, of Amos, of Ezekiel, etc.
5. Something imaginary; the production of fancy.
6. Any thing which is the object of sight.
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