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ion. A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. J. H. Newman.

To make a devil of. [R.] He that should deify a saint, should wrong him as much as he that should devilize him. Bp. Hall.

iled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

To make distribution. Distributing to the necessity of saints. Rom. xii. 13.

which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic. Paley.

An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

See Corposant; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint.

hed; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint. Right of eminent domain. (Law) See under Domain.

nd ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.

To place in the sky or in heaven. [R.] "A thing enskied and sainted." Shak.

That which gives practice; a trial; a test. Patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude. Milton. Exercise bone (Med.), a deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion.

act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n. The saint, Who propped the Virgin in her faint. Sir W. Scott.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints]. Chaucer.

Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity.

ich St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. Hoblyn. -- St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint Elmo. -- To set on fire, to inflame; to kindle. -- To take fire, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.

game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.

A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.

y; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die. By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. Sir W. Scott.