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8381 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FEEBLE-MINDED.2 (Noah Webster)

Comfort the feeble-minded. 1 Thessalonians 5:14 .

8382 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLAGON.3 (Noah Webster)

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.

8383 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOOD.37 (Noah Webster)

25. Cheerful; favorable to happiness. Be of good comfort.

8384 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEART.40 (Noah Webster)

To speak to one’s heart, in Scripture, to speak kindly to; to comfort; to encourage.

8385 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCONSOLABLE.1 (Noah Webster)

INCONSOLABLE, a. [in and consolable.] Not to be consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort.

8386 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INDIGENCE.1 (Noah Webster)

… of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty. A large portion of the human race live in indigence, while others possess more than they can enjoy.

8387 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INDIGENT.1 (Noah Webster)

INDIGENT, a. [L. indigens.] Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor.

8388 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. KINDLY.5 (Noah Webster)

And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. Genesis 50:21 .

8389 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEANNESS.4 (Noah Webster)

3. In Scripture, want of grace and spiritual comfort.

8390 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIFT.24 (Noah Webster)

To lift up the face, to look to with confidence, cheerfulness and comfort. Job 22:26 .

8392 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIGHT.35 (Noah Webster)

20. Support; comfort; deliverance. Micah 7:8-9 .

8393 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIVE.24 (Noah Webster)

15. To be greatly refreshed, comforted and animated.

8394 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEAT.9 (Noah Webster)

4. Spiritual comfort; that which delights the soul.

8395 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MISERABALE.5 (Noah Webster)

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job 16:2 .

8396 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOURN.4 (Noah Webster)

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 .

8397 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEEDY.2 (Noah Webster)

To relieve the needy and comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way every day.

8398 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOURISH.7 (Noah Webster)

4. To cherish; to comfort. James 5:5 .

8399 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PARACLETE.1 (Noah Webster)

PARACLETE, n. [Gr. to call.] Properly, an advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the consoler, comforter or intercessor, a term applied to the Holy Spirit.

8400 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POOR.2 (Noah Webster)

… a comfortable subsistence; needy. It is often synonymous with indigent, and with necessitous, denoting extreme want; it is also applied to persons who are …