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A contrite person. Hooker.

To dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] "Controversed causes." Hooker.

Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.

will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. Hooker.

n accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command. Shak.

ich has the power of fretting or irritating. Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives. Hooker. -- Cor*ro"sive*ly, adv. -- Cor*ro"sive*ness, n.

Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18.

e. They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used. Hooker.

to alter anuthing, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him. Hooker.

ondition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. Dampier.

hich we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony. Hooker.

f existence. Shairp. What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word Shak.

t is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

ave defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights. Hooker.

Not hasty or sudden; slow. Hooker. His enunciation was so deliberate. W. Wirt.

r conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker.

d or naturalized occupants. There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. J. D. Hooker.

A gift or offering to God. [Obs.] Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up. Hooker.

; -- usually with from. If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great. Hooker. It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke.

genealogy; a generation. No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself. Hooker.