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170 words match “SAIN”

FUSAIN n. 2 definitions

Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement.

LATTER-DAY SAINT n.

A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.

To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to. [R.] South.

Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.

ed or cast out. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.

ished by valor, boldness, or praiseworthy exertion; a feat. [The exploits] of the ancient saints . . . do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. Barrow. The highest achievements of the human intellect. Macaulay.

ALLHALLOW; ALLHALLOWS n. 2 definitions

All the saints (in heaven). [Obs.]

ALLHALLOWMAS n.

The feast of All Saints.

ALLHALLOWTIDE n.

The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.

ANAGOGIC; ANAGOGICAL a.

meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication. -- An`a*gog"ic*al*ly, adv.

A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

ANTHONY'S FIRE n.

See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint.

A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.

AUREOLA; AUREOLE n.

halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

e will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. [Obs.] Let God alone be our avowry. Latimer.

A member of the sect of the Babis consisting of the adherents of Baha (Mirza Husain Ali, entitled "Baha 'u 'llah," or, "the Splendor of God"), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its rec…

To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify. [Obs.] "Begodded saints." South.

being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

BLACK-LETTER a.

Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.