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1061 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEEK.4 (Noah Webster)
… divine dispensations. Christ says, “Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls.” Matthew 11:29 .
1062 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PENITENTIARY.4 (Noah Webster)
2. At the court of Rome, an office in which are examined and delivered out the secret bulls, graces or dispensations relating to cases of conscience, confession, etc.
1063 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERPETUAL.8 (Noah Webster)
5. During the legal dispensation. Exodus 29:9 .
1064 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUALIFICATION.2 (Noah Webster)
… often dispense with these and all other qualifications.
1065 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUARTZY.1 (Noah Webster)
QUARTZY, a. Pertaining to quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz; resembling quartz. [Quartzy is the regular adjective, and quartzose and quartzous may be dispensed with.]
1066 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECONCILE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. To bring to acquiescence, content or quiet submission; with to; as, to reconcile one’s self to afflictions. It is our duty to be reconciled to the dispensations of Providence.
1067 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REQUISITE.2 (Noah Webster)
Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; necessary; so needful that it cannot be dispensed with. Repentance and faith are requisite to salvation. Air is requisite to support life. Heat is requisite to vegetation.
1068 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RESIGNATION.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Quiet submission to the will of Providence; submission without discontent, and with entire acquiescence in the divine dispensations. This is christian resignation.
1069 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RHYME.3 (Noah Webster)
For rhyme with reason may dispense, and sound has right to govern sense.
1070 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SANCTIFY.5 (Noah Webster)
So under the Jewish dispensation, to sanctify the altar, the temple, the priests, etc.
1071 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCORNFUL.6 (Noah Webster)
3. In Scripture, holding religion in contempt; treating with disdain religion and the dispensations of God.
1072 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEMI-PELAGIAN.1 (Noah Webster)
… predestination dispensed his grace to one more than another; that Christ died to all men; that the grace purchased by Christ and necessary to salvation, is …
1073 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SENESCHAL.1 (Noah Webster)
… the dispensing of justice, as the high seneschal of England, etc.
1074 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPARE.17 (Noah Webster)
2. That can be dispensed with; not wanted; superfluous. I have no spare time on my hands. If that no spare clothes he had to give.
1075 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPARED.1 (Noah Webster)
SPARED, pp. Dispensed with; saved; forborne.
1076 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPOIL.21 (Noah Webster)
Gentle gales fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole their balmy spoils.
1077 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STEWARD.6 (Noah Webster)
5. In Scripture and theology, a minister of Christ, whose duty is to dispense the provisions of the gospel, to preach its doctrines and administer its ordinances.
1078 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TESTAMENT.4 (Noah Webster)
… new dispensations; that of Moses, and that of Jesus Christ.
1079 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THANKSGIVING.4 (Noah Webster)
… ordinary dispensation of his bounties. The practice of appointing an annual thanksgiving originated in New England.
1080 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THERE.8 (Noah Webster)
5. There is used to begin sentences or before a verb; sometimes pertinently, and sometimes without signification; but its use is to firmly established that it cannot be dispensed with.