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376 words match “HOOKER”

MISCONCEIVE v.
nd. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker.
MISDISTINGUISH v.
To make wrong distinctions in or concerning. Hooker.
MISERABLE a.
Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] Hooker.
MIXTURE n.
The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. Hooker.
MODERATE a.
Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. Hooker.
MOLEST v.
neasy; to interfere with; to vex. They have molested the church with needless opposition. Hooker.
MOMENTANEOUS; MOMENTANY a.
Momentary. [Obs.] Hooker. "Momentany as a sound." Shak.
MORAL a.
Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.
MOTHERLY a.
like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care. Hooker.
MUSTER n.
clif. Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. Hooker.
MYSTIC; MYSTICAL a.
mystic gulf from God to man. Emerson. God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural. Hooker.
NAUGHT a.
house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.
NERVATION n.
n, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.
NOCIVE a.
Hurtful; injurious. [R.] Hooker.
NOTE n.
rtain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. Hooker. She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. J. H. Newman. What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there…
NOTWITHSTANDING adv.
wisdom of God himself, are, notwithstanding, to know that the same had an end in Christ. Hooker. You did wisely and honestly too, notwithstanding She is the greatest beauty in the parish. Fielding. Notwithstanding that, notwithstanding; although. These days were ages to him, notwithstanding that he was basking in the…
NOURISH v.
to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues. "Nourish their contentions." Hooker.
NOURISHMENT n.
t which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker.
OBDURATE a.
custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary. Hooker. Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel, Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth Shak.
OBJECT v.
eat and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong impediment or other objecting itself. Hooker. Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condensed the skies. Pope.
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