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y watchful. I have been very jeolous for the Lord God of hosts. Kings xix. 10. How nicely jealous is every one of us of his own repute! Dr. H. More.

Jealousy. [Obs.] Shak.

In a jealous manner.

State or quality of being jealous.

The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. I was jealous for jealousy. Zech. viii. 2. Jealousy is the . . . apprehension of superiority. Shenstone. Whoever had…

Excessively jealous; too jealous.

rise to combinations, which belong particularly to the lower orders of society. Restless, jealous, ambitious, and little minds are ever forming cabals. Factions belong especially to free governments, and are raised by busy and turbulent spirits for selfish porposes". Crabb.

belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak.

Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. More dark and dark our woes. Shak. A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature. Macaulay. There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. W. Irving.…

good our past and present woes. Dryden. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. Bacon. To dispose of. (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a us…

in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance. This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy. Hammond.

among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.

ected by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues. My soul is envious of mine eye. Keble. Neither be t…

To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. "My jealous aim might err." Shak.

mbers of a body or association of persons. It implies sympathy, enthusiasm, devotion, and jealous regard for the honor of the body as a whole.

Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious. Shak.

struction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.

Playing at courtship; coquerty. The flirtations and jealousies of our ball rooms. Macaulay.

hich is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. These are the forgeries of jealously. Shak. The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. Waterland.