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20701 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DENY.12 (Noah Webster)
To deny ones self, is to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to refrain from; to abstain. The temperate man denies himself the free use of spirituous liquors. I denied myself the pleasure of your company.
20702 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEPRIVATION.4 (Noah Webster)
… his spiritual promotion or dignity; the taking away of a preferment; deposition. This is of two kinds; a beneficio, and ab officio. The former is the deprivation …
20703 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DESERTION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The state of being forsaken by God; spiritual despondency.
20704 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DESIRE.2 (Noah Webster)
… or spiritual, is expected; a passion excited by the love of an object, or uneasiness at the want of it, and directed to its attainment or possession. Desire is …
20705 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DESIRE.17 (Noah Webster)
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts. 1 Corinthians 14:1 .
20706 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEVOUR.14 (Noah Webster)
6. To destroy spiritually; to ruin the soul.
20707 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRAM.4 (Noah Webster)
3. As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as a dram of brandy. Drams are the slow poison of life.
20708 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRINK.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To take spirituous liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the use of spirituous liquors; to be a habitual drunkard.
20709 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRINKER.1 (Noah Webster)
DRINKER, n. One who drinks, particularly one who practices drinking spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard; a tipler.
20710 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRUNK.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Intoxicated; inebriated; overwhelmed or overpowered by spirituous liquor; stupefied or inflamed by the action of spirit on the stomach and brain. It is brutish to be drunk.
20711 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRUNKENNESS.2 (Noah Webster)
… with spirituous liquors, so that his reason is disordered, and he reels or staggers in walking. Drunkenness renders some persons stupid, others gay, others …
20712 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EARTH.15 (Noah Webster)
9. In scripture, things on the earth, are carnal, sensual, temporary things; opposed to heavenly, spiritual or divine things.
20713 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EARTHLY.7 (Noah Webster)
3. Belonging to the earth or world; carnal; vile; as opposed to spiritual or heavenly.
20714 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EBRIETY.2 (Noah Webster)
Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors.
20715 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ECLIPSE.4 (Noah Webster)
All the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life.
20716 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCOMMUNICATE.1 (Noah Webster)
EXCOMMUNICATE, v.t. [L. ex and communico.] To expel from communion; to eject from the communion of the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence, and deprive of spiritual advantages; as, to excommunicate notorious offenders.
20717 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCOMMUNICATING.1 (Noah Webster)
EXCOMMUNICATING, ppr. Expelling from the communion of a church, and depriving of spiritual advantages, by an ecclesiastical sentence or decree.
20718 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXIST.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To be; to have an essence or real being; applicable to matter or body, and to spiritual substances. A supreme being and first cause of all other beings must have existed from eternity, for no being can have created himself.
20719 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FAINTS.1 (Noah Webster)
FAINTS, n. plu. the gross fetid oil remaining after distillation, or a weak spirituous liquor that runs from the still in rectifying the low wines after the proof spirit is drawn off; also, the last runnings of all spirits distilled by the alembic.
20720 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FAR.7 (Noah Webster)
3. Remote in affection or obedience; at enmity with; alienated; in a spiritual sense.