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from the Mohammedan Arabs in the 9th century. Their characteristic dogma is the unity of God. Am. Cyc.

A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.

inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

Figuratively, a low or mean condition. [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust. 1 Sam. ii. 8.

doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. Hallam.

ch a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other buildi…

id materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land. God called the dry land earth. Gen. i. 10. He is pure air and fire, and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him. Shak.

Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne. Young.

f German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition." Mark vii. 13. "All my study be to no effect." Shak. -- To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results. -- To take effect, to become operative, to ac…

An efficient cause; a prime mover. God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only. Hooker.

Those who are chosen for salvation. Shall not God avenge his won elect Luke xviii. 7.

One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Relating to Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament.

ing from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.

d smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

hence, contentious, envious. "Emulous Carthage." B. Jonson. Emulous missions 'mongst the gods. Shak.

e; to terminate; as, to end a speech. "I shall end this strife." Shak. On the seventh day God ended his work. Gen. ii. 2.

Hostile; inimical. [Obs.] They . . . every day grow more enemy to God. Jer. Taylor.

enlighten the mind or understanding. The conscience enlightened by the Word and Spirit of God. Trench.