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4921 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOETY.1 (Noah Webster)
GOETY, n. Invocation of evil spirits. [Not in use.]
4922 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HABIT.9 (Noah Webster)
Frequent drinking of spirits leads to a habit of intemperance. We should endeavor to correct evil habits by a change of practice. A great point in the education of children, is to prevent the formation of bad habits.
4923 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUDGMENT.10 (Noah Webster)
7. In Scripture, the spirit of wisdom and prudence, enabling a person to discern right and wrong, good and evil.
4924 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEAP.6 (Noah Webster)
And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped on them and overcame them - Acts 19:16 .
4925 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEMURES.1 (Noah Webster)
LEMURES, n. [L.] Hobgoblins; evil spirits. [Not English.]
4926 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MALICE.1 (Noah Webster)
MALICE, n. [L. malitia, from malus, evil.] Extreme enmity of heart, or malevolence; a disposition to injure others without cause, from mere personal gratification or from a spirit of revenge; unprovoked malignity or spite.
4927 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MALIGN.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Having a very evil disposition towards others; harboring violent hatred or enmity; malicious; as malign spirits.
4928 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MENACE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To show or manifest the probability of future evil or danger to. The spirit of insubordination menaced Spain with the horrors of civil war.
4929 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NICK.1 (Noah Webster)
NICK, n. In the northern mythology, an evil spirit of the saters; hence the modern vulgar phrase, Old Nick, the evil one.
4930 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SATANISM.1 (Noah Webster)
SATANISM, n. The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit.
4931 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SENSUAL.7 (Noah Webster)
4. In theology, carnal; pertaining to the flesh or body, in opposition to the spirit; not spiritual or holy; evil.
4932 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIN.2 (Noah Webster)
… Holy Spirit, is supposed to be a malicious and obstinate rejection of Christ and the gospel plan of salvation, or a contemptuous resistance made to the influences …
4933 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SORCERY.1 (Noah Webster)
SORCERY, n. Magic; enchantment; witchcraft; divination be the assistance of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits. Adder’s wisdom I have learn’d to fence my ears against the sorceries.
4934 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNLICENSED.2 (Noah Webster)
The vending of ardent spirits, in places licensed or unlicensed, is a tremendous evil.
4935 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. angels.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… “ministering spirits” under the command of Christ “sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation” (Hebrews 1:14). Fallen angels are the “principalities …
4936 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. black Americans.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… braggadocio spirit B slaves. During the outbreak of hostilities, she had a vision in Parkville, Michigan, on January 12, 1861, in which she was shown that there …
4937 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. intercourse.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… through evil spirits (PP 638, 684). She also wrote of the “familiar intercourse [conversations] of the home circle” (AA 250) and how important it is that all “social …
4938 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. necromancy.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
The practice of revealing future events by attempting to communicate with the dead. Ellen G. White described how evil spirits were at work with King Saul and the witch of Endor (PP 676).
4939 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. New York.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… with spirits. Ellen G. White considered this “mysterious rapping” as “not the result of human trickery or cunning, but was the direct work of evil angels, who thus …
4940 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. spirit(s).2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
A term sometimes used to denote a person’s dis-position, such as whether someone is happy or sad. At other times, Ellen G. White warned against evil spirits in the nineteenth-century *spiritualism movement.