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

which is eloquently uttered or written. O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast. Shak.

n ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message. He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees. Jer. Taylor.

What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.

The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [R.]

To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. "Enforcing furious way." Spenser.

ly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage. -- Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style of writing suitable for engrossing legal documents, legislative bills, etc.

The passage, door, or gate, for entering. Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24.

In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine. A straight, long entry to the temple led. Dryden.

The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.

r; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere. I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19. I will not eat till I have told mine errand. Gen. xxiv. 33.…

r mistake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.

to the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage. [Written also oesophagotomy.]

gnition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. Deut. xix. 15.

uted at the given port, obtained by observation, viz., the interval between the moon's passage over the meridian and the time of high water at the port, on the days of new and full moon.

A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.

A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.

f describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.