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etestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all, consist in a power of indifferency, or in a power of choosing without regard to motives. Hazlitt.

Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the churc…

evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy. To whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3.

upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce. Theseexperiments succeed after the same manner in vacuo as in the open air,and therefore are not influenced by the weight or pressure of the atmosphere. Sir I. Newton. This standing revelation . . . is sufficient to influence their faith and practice, if…

Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.

eek shall inherit the earth. Ps. xxxvii. 11. To bury so much gold under a tree, And never after to inherit it. Shak.

A gaping after; eager desire; craving. [R.] Bp. Hall.

ed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honor after death. Bp. Warburton. He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty. Spectator.

quest; search. [R.] Spenser. The laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science. South.

One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.

In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.

To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. [Obs.]

A following after; close pursuit. [Obs.] Chapman.

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

To put in order; to form; to prepare. [Obs.] They speak to the merits of a cause, after the proctor has prepared and instructed the same for a hearing. Ayliffe.

e, as a wound, without suppuration. -- To heal by the second intention (Surg.), to unite after suppuration.

ertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps. Dryden.

ntermediary project. Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.

ght; private; secluded; retired. I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.