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That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

e by which all manors belonging to the crown, in the reign of William the Conqueror, were held. The numbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, an…

Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

inciples of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.

Angular; having corners; hooked. [R.] Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill.

To record in annals. Sheldon.

t week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.

a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.

sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. Mozley & W.

The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal

ter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. -- n.

bordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.

Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists.

The doctrine or theory held by associationists.

To take up; to elevate; to assume. [Obs.] Sheldon.