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COVENANT n. 8 definitions

parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant. 1 Sam. xviiii. 3. Let there be covenants drawn between us. Shak. If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. Shak.

The person in whose favor a covenant is made.

COVENANTER n. 2 definitions

One who makes a covenant.

Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.

The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.

To dissolve covenant with.

UNCOVENANTED a. 3 definitions

Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract. Bp. Horsley.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2.

r in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.

A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.

laced the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.

ARTICLE v. 2 definitions

To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.

igns or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. Abbott.

ous; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charies II. Cameron and others refused to accept the "indulgence" offered the Presbyterian clergy, insisted on the Solemn league and Covenant, and in 1680 declared Charles II deposed for tyranny, breach of faith, etc. Cameron was killed at the b…

A covenant. [Obs.] Shak.

An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract. The law of nations depends on mutual compacts, treaties, leagues, etc. Blackstone. Wedlock is described as the indissoluble compact. Macaulay. The federal constitution has been styled a compact between the States by which it was ratified. Wharton.…