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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.

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

The feast of All Saints.

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

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.

See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint.

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

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.

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.

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

ual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven. Reverenced like a blessed saint. Shak. Cast out from God and blessed vision. Milton.

One who has reached the highest degree of saintship, so that in his next incarnation he will be a Buddha, or savior of the world. -- Bo"dhi*sat`ship, n.

The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.

ered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles. The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets. Thackeray. Ports bristling with thousands of masts. Macaulay.