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8401 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POORLY.1 (Noah Webster)
POORLY, adv. Without wealth; in indigence or want of the conveniences and comforts of life; as, to live poorly.
8402 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRE-EMINENCE.7 (Noah Webster)
Above life’s weakness and its comforts too.
8403 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREJUDICE.3 (Noah Webster)
My comfort is that their manifest prejudice to my cause will render their judgment of less authority.
8404 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESSURE.8 (Noah Webster)
To this consideration he retreats with comfort in all his pressures.
8405 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRIVATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The state of being deprived; particularly, deprivation or absence of what is necessary for comfort. He endures his privations with wonderful fortitude.
8406 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUICKEN.8 (Noah Webster)
5. To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace. Psalm 119:25 .
8407 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMFORT.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMFORT, v.t. [re and comfort.]
8408 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMFORT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To comfort again; to console anew.
8409 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMFORTED.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMFORTED, pp. Comforted again.
8410 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMFORTING.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMFORTING, ppr. Comforting again.
8411 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMFORTLESS.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMFORTLESS, a. Without comfort. [Not used.]
8412 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECONSOLATE.1 (Noah Webster)
RECONSOLATE, v.t. To console or comfort again. [Not in use.]
8413 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REST.24 (Noah Webster)
Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and for the rest, it offers us the best security that heaven can give.
8414 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REWARD.20 (Noah Webster)
7. Return in joy and comfort. Psalm 19:11 .
8415 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ROD.12 (Noah Webster)
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4 .
8416 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SINGLE.14 (Noah Webster)
2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire; as an agent singling itself from comforts.
8417 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLACE.1 (Noah Webster)
SOLACE, v.t. [from L. soatium; solor, to comfort, assuage, relieve. See Console .]
8418 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLACE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in afflication; to console; applied to persons; as, to solace one’s self with the hop of future reward.
8419 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLACE.4 (Noah Webster)
SOLACE, v.i. To take comfort; to be cheered or relieved in grief.
8420 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLACE.5 (Noah Webster)
SOLACE, n. Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; recreation. The propersolaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.