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when there are hopes of victory. Bp. Burnet. Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest Pope.

r carries on; as, the continuation of a story. My continuation of the version of Statius. Pope.

ke yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long acustomed to lead. Pope.

o contract a debt; to contract a disease. Each from each contract new strength and light. Pope. Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high statiSwift.

convoke. And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes. Pope.

phy. Dryden. he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope. Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper.

; chat. Formed by thy converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

condemned (a. d. 451) by the council of Chalcedon, and allows its priests to marry. The "pope and patriarch" has jurisdiction over the Abyssinian Church. Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian r…

The pomp or assembly at a coronation. Pope.

First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. Pope.

His potentates to council called by night. Milton. O great in action and in council wise. Pope. Aulic council. See under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise con…

To work in oppositeion to; to counteract. That counterworksh folly and caprice. Pope.

To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Pope.

A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] Pope.

of a court; court-craft; finesse. [Obs.] She [the Queen] being composed of courtship and Popery. Fuller.

glish Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house. Macualay.

applied to the hood and garment together. What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl Pope.

Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.

me are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.