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; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.

al; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends of these usual enemies. Baxter. -- U"su*al*ly, adv. -- U"su*al*ness, n.

o believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist. Hooker.

25. He cannot have sufficient honor done unto him; but the uttermost we can do, we must. Hooker.

ending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him. Hooker.

Characterized by caution; guarded; careful. It behoveth our words to be wary and few. Hooker.

se. "Convinced of his weak arguing." Milton. A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in. Hooker.

, or his own. Milton. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken. Hooker. In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs. Pope. Without sufficiently weighing his expressions. Sir W. Scott.

Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant." Hooker.

appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject. Hooker. The will is plainly that by which the mind chooses anything. J. Edwards.

pital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker.

k with him." Shak. -- To set on work, to cause to begin laboring; to set to work. [Obs.] Hooker. -- To set to work, to employ; to cause to engage in any business or labor.

ath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker.

s. Sir P. Sidney. The prayers which our Savior made were for his own worthiness accepted. Hooker.

The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. Hooker.

ieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed. Hooker.