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mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel. C. J. Smith. The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics. Mansel.

The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.

To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

t who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. Shipley.

The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.

of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century.

Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.

The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept. Shipley.

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

To anoint. Shipley.

Worship paid to angels.

The Angelus bell. Shipley.

A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

lant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.

stians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.