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tivate the wild, licentious savage. Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson.

quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. Prynne.

ties; to deteriorate. When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety. Tillotson.

often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one's self to science, to one's friends, to piety, etc.

Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture. Milton.

s or want of reputation or good name; dishonor; disrepute; disesteem. "A disreputation of piety." Jer. Taylor.

ing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor.

tem, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.

Exemplary. [Obs.] The exemplar piety of the father of a family. Jer. Taylor.

ul observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety. Godliness is profitable unto all things. 1 Tim. iv. 8.

Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety. " His gravid associate." Sir T. Herbert.

ary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin. It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings. Buckminster.

seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety. The hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job viii. 13. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. Shak.

Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language. When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.

Want of devotion; impiety; irreligion. "An age of indevotion." Jer. Taylor.

Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.

The state of being irreligious; want of religion; impiety.

A person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact observance of religious duties; -- sometimes so called in contempt or ridicule.

ts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution. Addison.

expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, ... "Serve God, and be cheerful." Addison.