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To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory. [R.]

or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world. Sharp.

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necessity, but the premium and privilege of life, to eat and sleep without any regard to glory. Burke. The law that obliges parishes to support the poor offers a premium for the encouragement of idleness. Franklin.

Show; ostentation; glory. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Shak.

est, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. Jer. xiii. 18. The prerogative and principality above everything else. Jer. Taylor.

in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance. Then came brave Glory puffing by. Herbert.

in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty. A puny subject strikes at thy great glory. Shak. Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed. Keble.

action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life. My race of glory run, and race of shame. Milton.

iance of the sun. Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. Milton. What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare ! Neale.

. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning. It is our glory and happiness to have a rational nature. Law.

t them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve. What glory's due to him that could divide Such raveled interests has he not untied Waller. The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses!…

courses; to reform. They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, Grieving to see his glory . . . took envy. Milton.

Recovery. Sir T. Malory.

Reverence; honor. [Obs.] In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.

or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson.

Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory.

Renown. [Obs.] The glory and renowme of the ancectors. Robynson (More's Utopia).

of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor. Son! thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, heir of all my might. Milton. The resplendency of his own almighty goodness. Dr. J. Scott.