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Market; trade. [Obs.] Bp. Sprat.

receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice. "All wickedness will be most odious." Sprat. He rendered himself odious to the Parliament. Clarendon.

titution. "A penury of military forces." Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor.

ask . . . whether . . . the divine law does not positively require humility and meekness. Sprat. Positively charged or electrified (Elec.), having a charge of positive electricity; -- opposed to Ant: negatively electrified.

To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. Sprat.

ting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages." Sprat.

A meeting by appointment. Sprat.

never think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers. Sprat.

ded would be a mischief to us, you are providing shall be one of our principal strengths. Sprat. Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation. Jer. Taylor.

W. Cable. To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used. Sprat.

warmth, and holy fires." Jer. Taylor. That warmth . . . which agrees with Christian zeal. Sprat.

are most notoriously ignorant whereas true zeal should always begin with true knowledge. Sprat.

Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance. "Wrathful passions." Sprat.