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One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces. Bp. Sanderson.

ion or negation. [Obs.] The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either off or on. Bp. Sanderson. From off, off from; off. "A live coal...taken with the tongs from off the altar." Is. vi. 6. -- Off and on. (a) Not constantly; not regularly; now and then; occasionally. (b) (Naut.) On different tacks, now toward, and…

Of the nature of, or by means of, a paction. Bp. Sanderson.

points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

account for. "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." Bp. Sanderson. -- To reckon on or upon, to count or depend on. -- To reckon with, to settle accounts or claims with; -- used literally or figuratively. After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Ma…

mbination of words. The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our sovereign lord the king." Bp. Sanderson.

ous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood.

factory and meritorius death and obedience of the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ. Bp. Sanderson. -- Sat`is*fac"to*ri*ty, adv. -- Sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.

lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper. [Written also sanders-blue.]

wship. [Eng. Univ.] -- To sit out. (a) To be without engagement or employment. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson. (b) To outstay. -- To sit under, to be under the instruction or ministrations of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching. -- To sit up, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from slee…

A survey. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

d of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent. Bp. Sanderson.

A tenet. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

One ready in quoting texts. [R.] Bp. Sanderston.

Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Sanderson. To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To kindle. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

ng else; to subscribe. What addition and change I have made I have here underwritten. Bp. Sanderson.

Disorderly. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Impartial. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson. -- Un*par"tial*ly, adv. [Obs.] Hooker.

To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil. [R.] Bp. Sanderson.