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One who observes forms and rules. [Obs.] Hooker.

One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.

Frequency. Hooker.

one; singleness in number; individuality; unity. Our God is one, or rather very oneness. Hooker.

uthority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish. Hooker.

is said, truly, that the best men otherwise are not always the best in regard of society. Hooker.

Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.

Too capable. [R.] Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.

An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker.

To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down. Drayton. Hooker.

e is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic.

der Most, a. -- In good part, as well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly manner. Hooker. In ill part, unfavorably; with displeasure. -- In part, in some degree; partly. -- Part and parcel, an essential or constituent portion; -- a reduplicative phrase. Cf. might and main, kith and kin, etc. "She was . . . pa…

of impressions from external agents. Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker.

Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] Hooker. They stay upon your patience. Shak.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. Hymns . . . that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself. Hooker.

The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. Hooker.

command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker.

human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. Hooker.

viction, which has been induced. If the general persuasion of all men does so account it. Hooker. My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper.