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241 The Victory, p. 339.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… ruin. Alcohol use overcomes reason; sensual indulgence, conflict, and bloodshed follow. War stirs up the worst passions of the heart and sweeps its victims …
242 Seventh-day Adventist: Twenty-eight Fundamental Beliefs, p. 10.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… . Since alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and the irresponsible use of drugs and narcotics are harmful to our bodies, we are to abstain from them as well. Instead …
243 My Journey to Life, Step 19—Christian Behavior, p. 2.1 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… . Since alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and the irresponsible use of drugs and narcotics are harmful to our bodies, we are to abstain from them as well. Instead …
244 My Journey to Life, Step 26—The Lord’s Supper, p. 11.2 (Ellen G. White Estate)
The pure, unfermented juice would be a fitting symbol of the blood of Christ, who calls Himself the “True Vine” ( John 15:1 ). Since alcohol is a product of decay and death, it could not symbolize the redeeming, life-giving blood of Jesus.
245 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ALCOHOL.1 (Noah Webster)
ALCOHOL, n. [Heb. to paint with a preparation of powder of antimony. The oriental females still practice the painting of the eye brows with this material. The …
246 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ALCOHOLIC.1 (Noah Webster)
ALCOHOLIC, a. Pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities.
247 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ALCOHOLIZATION.1 (Noah Webster)
ALCOHOLIZATION, n. The act of rectifying spirit, till it is wholly dephlegmatedor of reducing a substance to an impalpable powder.
248 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ALCOHOLIZE.1 (Noah Webster)
ALCOHOLIZE, v.t. To convert into alcohol; to rectify spirit till it is wholly dephlegmated; also, to reduce a substance to an impalpable powder.
249 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APHLOGISTIC.2 (Noah Webster)
Flameless; as an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.
250 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CASTORIN.1 (Noah Webster)
CASTORIN, CASTORINE, n. An animal principle discovered in castor, and prepared by boiling castor in six times its weight of alcohol, and filtering the liquor. From this is deposited the Castorin.
251 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CERIN.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A peculiar substance which precipitates on evaporation, from alcohol, which has been digested on grated cork.
252 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CERIN.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The part of common wax which dissolves in alcohol.
253 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEFLAGRABLE.1 (Noah Webster)
DEFLAGRABLE, a. Combustible; having the quality of taking fire and burning, as alcohol, oils, etc.
254 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ETHER.4 (Noah Webster)
… of alcohol or rectified spirit of wine, with an acid. It is lighter than alcohol, of a strong sweet smell, susceptible of great expansion, and of a pungent taste …
255 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FERMENTATION.1 (Noah Webster)
… of alcohol or vinegar. Fermentation differs from effervescence. The former is confined to animal and vegetable substances; the latter is applicable to …
256 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GUM.2 (Noah Webster)
… in alcohol, and coagulates in weak acids. When dry, it is transparent and brittle, not easily pulverized, and of an insipid or slightly saccharine taste. Gum …
257 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LAC.2 (Noah Webster)
… in alcohol or other menstrua, by different methods of preparation, constitutes various kinds of varnishes and lackers.
258 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LACKER.1 (Noah Webster)
LACKER, LACQUER, n. A kind of varnish. The basis of lackers is a solution of the substance called seed-lack or shell-lack, in spirit of wine or alcohol. Varnishes applied to metals improve their color and preserve them from tarnishing.
259 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEUCIN.1 (Noah Webster)
LEUCIN, LEUCINE, n. [Gr. white.] A peculiar white pulverulent substance obtained from beef-fibers, treated with sulphuric acid, and afterwards with alcohol.
260 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDULLIN.1 (Noah Webster)
MEDULLIN, n. [L. medulla.] The pith of the sunflower, which has neither taste nor smell. It is insoluble in water, ether, alcohol and oils, but soluble in nitric acid, and instead of yielding suberic acid, it yields the oxalic.