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"We seek peace and composure." Milton. When the passions . . . are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. I. Watts.

ble ancestors achieved with blows. Shak. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Burke. An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions. Hallam.

The state of being conceived; beginning. Joy had the like conception in our eyes. Shak.

Obs.] Of this were confected the famous everlasting lamps and tapers. Sir T. Herbert. [My joys] are still confected with some fears. Stirling.

Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.

Rejoicing together; congratulatory. With like joy Congratulant approached him. Milton.

mpathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. Shak. To congratulate one's self, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self happy or fortunate.…

Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together. [R.] Neale.

uing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory. In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. Addison. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. Prescott.

e converted into water. T. Burnet. That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. Milton.

frigate convoys a merchantman. I know ye skillful to convoy The total freight of hope and joy. Emerson.

ity. He raised the house with loud and coward cries. Shak. Invading fears repel my coward joy. Proir.

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak.

Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.

me, dear lady." Shak. Neither count I my life dear unto myself. Acts xx. 24. And the last joy was dearer than the rest. Pope. Dear as remember'd kisses after death. Tennyson.

rity for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. -- Death wound. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. -- Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. -- The gates of d…

om entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of. Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed Labor, as to debar us when we need Refreshment. Milton. Their wages were so low as to debar them, n…

state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South.

omson. E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Goldsmith.