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ce; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Neh. ix. 17. So hallowed and so gracious in the time. Shak.

In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. Dryden.

Quality of being gracious.

Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.

Ungracious; unkind. [Obs.] Holland.

Not graceful; displeasing. [Obs.] Gower.

Not gracious. [Obs.]

Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling. Shak.

Gracious; mild; benign. A serene and affable countenance. Tatler.

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant. Creator bounteous and benign. Milton.

Kind; gracious; favorable. -- Be*nig"nant*ly, adv.

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. "Benignity of aspect." Sir W. Scott.

Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence. My bounty is as boundless as the sea. Shak.

Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper.

mmission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners. Macaulay.

t my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands Milton. Spain's mighty monarch, In gracious clemency, does condescend, On these conditions, to become your friend. Dryden.

translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant.

-- To catch one's eye, to attract one's notice. -- To find favor in the eyes (of), to be graciously received and treated. -- To have an eye to, to pay particular attention to; to watch. "Have an eye to Cinna." Shak. -- To keep an eye on, to watch. -- To set the eyes on, to see; to have a sight of. -- In the eye of…

act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration. Beg one favor at thy gracious hand. Shak.