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lated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.

One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.

Not to be stopped. Davenant.

bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond. All the bishops subscribed the sentence. Milman.

court (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe attendance to their lord. -- Suit covenant (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain court. -- Suit custom (Law), a service which is owed from time immemorial. -- Suit service. (Feudal Law) See Suit and service, above. -- To bring suit. (Law) (a) To bring sec…

Excessive or extraordinary gain. [Obs.] Davenant.

One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter. He is…

dicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.

To harm, afflict, or distress. Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee. Gen. xxvi. 28, 29.

Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. -- Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.

One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.

ne's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract. I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. Shak.

One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor. To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter. Evelyn. In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders. South.

ities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.

One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.

ion of a war. The beginnings of confederacies have been always vigorous and successful. Davenant. -- Vig"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Vig"or*ous*ness, n.

ngement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violation of my faith." Shak.

his way. Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. Davenant.

to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.