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1,092 words match “LOVE”

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE n.
vine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents.
CLAVER n.
See Clover. Holland.
CLEFT-FOOTED a.
Having a cloven foot.
CLOWE-GILOFRE n.
Spice clove. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CLUB n.
Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
CLUSTER n. 2 definitions
mob. As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.
COLONY n.
of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames.
COLOR v.
To hide. [Obs.] That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. Spenser.
COMFORT n. 2 definitions
nxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition. I had much joy and comfort in thy love. Phil. 7 (Rev. Ver. ). He had the means of living in comfort. Macaulay.
COMMANDMENT n.
ty; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another. John xiii. 34.
COMMEMORATE v.
serve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.
COMMEND n.
Compliments; greetings. [Obs.] Hearty commends and much endeared love to you. Howell.
COMMUTATION n.
on. [R.] So great is the commutation that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves. South.
COMPART v.
or subdivisions. [R.] The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.
COMPASS v.
circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish. If I can chek my erring love, I will: If not, to compass her I'll use my skill. Shak. How can you to compass your designs Denham.
COMPETITOR n.
r claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival. And can not brook competitors in love. Shak.
COMPLACENTIAL a.
Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] "Complacential love." Baxter.
COMPLEXION n.
ll was her stature, her complexion dark. Wordswoorth. Between the pale complexion of true love, And the red glow of scron and proud disdain. Shak.
CONCEIT n.
n; as, a man of quick conceit. [Obs.] How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. Sir P. Sidney.
CONCESSION n.
ssion , that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions. Swift.
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