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The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.

entury, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.

A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. Balfour (Cyc. of India). Jungle bear (Zoöl.), the aswail o…

n all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. Ps. ixxxix. 11. The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stablenes…

iking or thrust with the foot. A kick, that scarce would more a horse, May kill a sound divine. Cowper.

A glen; a ravine closed at its upper end. [South Africa]

Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day. Feebly she laugheth in the languid moon. Keats. Their idleness, aimless and languid airs. W. Black.

nlarge horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city.

, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.

A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; -- usually in the pl.

uding usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.

A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service.

A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service.

The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another. "The Divine legation of Moses." Bp. Warburton.

ce, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock. The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy. Macaulay.

who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.

A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.

A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.

of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody. It should be tried with shoots of vines and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon. Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.

A steep ravine.