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(Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not gua…

ile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth.

An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak.

old, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

lows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley.

Admonisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

To bind in faith. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.

Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air. Fairholt.

nsects of the genus Sialis or allied genera. They have aquatic larvæ, which are used for bait.

e; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. All that thou seest is mine. Gen. xxxi. 43.

t day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.

With an ambling gait.

a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. Bold in close ambush, base in open field. Dryden.

a statement; assent; (b) the final word or act; (c) Christ as being one who is true and faithful. And let all the people say, Amen. Ps. cvi. 48. Amen, amen, I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. John ii. 3. Rhemish Trans. To say amen to, to approve warmly; to concur in heartily…