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ity; that on which we place dependence for safety. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul. Heb. vi. 19.

the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.

The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.

sing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

hameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

p as you sow; do as you are bidden. His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren. Macaulay.

One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

ming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation. [Obs.] Custom and studies efform the soul like wax, and by assuefaction introduce a nature. Jer. Taylor.

ion; unwarrantable claim. This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of death to the resurrection of the body. Thodey. That calm assumption of the virtues. W. Black.

The life principle, soul, or individual essence.

Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls. Mrs. Browning.

A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are direc…

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.

The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak.