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e; precise; exact in the smallest particulars. "A punctilious observance of divine laws." Rogers. "Very punctilious copies of any letters. The Nation. Punctilious in the simple and intelligible instances of common life. I. Taylor. -- Punc*til"ious*ly, adv. -- Punc*til"ious*ness, n.

ention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind. Rogers.

armony. A clear and easy reconciliation of those seeming inconsistencies of Scripture. D. Rogers.

ecovered be." Chaucer. Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover. Rogers.

ung. Milton. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. Rogers. both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. Addison.

; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic. "The refinements of irregular cunning." Rogers.

; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days. He reprieves the sinnner from time to time. Rogers.

hat which is excepted; exception. Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. Rogers.

e reverse, the state. Pope. Custom . . . reverses even the distinctions of good and evil. Rogers.

ith a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object. When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. A. Tucker.

ould silence all further opposition. Clarendon. These would have silenced their scruples. Rogers.

rest; to cease as satisfied. "Here we can not sit down, but still proceed in our search." Rogers. -- To sit for a fellowship, to offer one's self for examination with a view to obtaining a fellowship. [Eng. Univ.] -- To sit out. (a) To be without engagement or employment. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson. (b) To outstay. -- To s…

ditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest ease and tranquillity. Rogers.

was able, the beginning and progress of a rising world. T. Burnet. He is very much in Sir Roger's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than dependent. Addison.

fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers.

ancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. Rogers.

A horse. [Obs.] Chaucer. Thorold Rogers.

rmuring. Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death. Rogers.

ten abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve. Rogers.

erthrow and ruin. Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation. Rogers.