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11342

 competence
[.] COMPETENCE,PETENCY, n. [.] 1. Sufficiency; such a quantity as is sufficient; property or means of subsistence sufficient to furnish the necessaries and conveniences of life, without superfluity. [.] [.] Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, [.] [.] Lie ...

17533

 doom
...ination affecting the fate or future state of another; usually a determination to inflict evil, sometimes otherwise. [.] [.] Revoke that doom of mercy. [.] 3. That state to which one is doomed, or destined. To suffer misery is the doom of sinners. To toil for subsistence ...

18628

 eleemosynary
...ity, compassion.] [.] 1. Given in charity; given or appropriated to support the poor; as eleemosynary rents or taxes. [.] 2. Relating to charitable donations; intended for the distribution of alms, or for the use and management of donations, whether for the subsistence ...

19995

 establishment
... ratification of what has been settled or made. [.] 3. Settled regulation; form; ordinance; system of laws; constitution of government. [.] [.] Bring in that establishment by which all men should be contained in duty. [.] 4. Fixed or stated allowance for subsistence; ...

27766

 hypostasy
[.] HYPOS'TASY, n. [L. hypostasis; Gr. to stand.] Properly, subsistence or substance. Hence it is used to denote distinct substance, or subsistence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in the Godhead, called by the Greek christians, three hypostases. The Latins more ...

29230

 independence
[.] INDEPEND'ENCE, n. [in and dependence.] [.] 1. A state of being not dependent; complete exemption from control, or the power of others; as the independence of the Supreme Being. [.] 2. A state in which a person does not rely on others for subsistence; ability to ...

29285

 indigency
[.] IN'DIGENCY, n. [L. indigentia, from indigeo; in or ind, and egeo, to want, to lack.] Want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty. A large portion of the human race live in indigence, while others possess more than they can enjoy.

29288

 indigent
[.] IN'DIGENT, a. [L. indigens.] Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor. [.] [.] Charity consists in relieving the indigent.

29839

 inhospitable
[.] INHOS'PITABLE, a. [in and hospitable.] [.] 1. Not hospitable; not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously; declining to entertain guests, or entertaining them with reluctance; as an inhospitable person or people. [.] 2. Affording no conveniences, subsistence ...

31963

 labor
[.] LA'BOR, n. [L. labor, from labo, to fail.] [.] 1. Exertion of muscular strength, or bodily exertion which occasions weariness; particularly, the exertion of the limbs in occupations by which subsistence is obtained, as in agriculture and manufactures, in distinction ...

32734

 liberal
... Licentious; free to excess. [.] Liberal arts, as distinguished from mechanical arts, are such as depend more on the exertion of the mind than on the labor of the hands, and regard amusement, curiosity or intellectual improvement, rather than the necessity of subsistence, ...

33129

 living
... quickening; as a living principle; a living faith. [.] LIV'ING, n. He or those who are alive; usually with a plural signification; as in the land of the living. [.] The living will lay it to his heart. Eccles. 7. [.] LIV'ING, n. [.] 1. Means of subsistence; ...

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 manor
[.] MAN'OR, n. [L. maneo, to abide.] The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage formerly kept in his own hands for the use and subsistence of his family. In these days,a manor rather signifies the jurisdiction and royalty incorporeal,than ...

36792

 necessarily
[.] NECESSARILY, adv. [.] 1. By necessity; in such a manner that it cannot be otherwise. Truth is necessarily opposite to falsehood. A square is necessarily different from a circle. [.] 2. Indispensably. Most men are necessarily occupied in procuring their subsistence. [.] 3. ...

36833

 need
...mary sense is to press.] [.] 1. Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief. It sometimes expresses urgent want; pressing exigency. [.] [.] What further need have we of witnesses? Matthew 26. [.] 2. Want of the means of subsistence; ...

40617

 petency
[.] COMPETENCE,PETENCY, n. [.] 1. Sufficiency; such a quantity as is sufficient; property or means of subsistence sufficient to furnish the necessaries and conveniences of life, without superfluity. [.] [.] Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, [.] [.] Lie ...

41828

 poor
[.] POOR, a. [L. pauper.] [.] 1. Wholly destitute of property, or not having property sufficient for a comfortable subsistence; needy. It is often synonymous with indigent, and with necessitous, denoting extreme want; it is also applied to persons who are not entirely ...

42132

 poverty
[.] POV'ERTY, n. [L. paupertas. See Poor.] [.] 1. Destitution of property; indigence; want of convenient means of subsistence. The consequence of poverty is dependence. [.] [.] The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov.23. [.] 2. Barrenness of ...

43058

 profession
...bait, are a slender security. [.] The Indians quickly perceive the coincidence or the contradiction between professions and conduct, and their confidence or distrust follows of course. [.] 2. The business which one professes to understand and to follow for subsistence; ...

43843

 purpose
... and benevolent must be his purpose in the plan of redemption! The ambition of men is generally directed to one of two purposes, or to both; the acquisition of wealth or of power. We build houses for the purpose of shelter; we labor for the purpose of subsistence. [.] 2. ...

44642

 ration
[.] RA'TION, n. [L. ratio, proportion.] [.] A portion or fixed allowance of provisions, drink and forage, assigned to each soldier in an army for his daily subsistence and for the subsistence of horses. Officers have several rations according to their rank or number ...

47737

 sake
...s, to obtain it, for the purpose of obtaining air. I read for the sake of instruction, that is, to obtain it. Sake then signifies primarily effort to obtain, and secondarily purpose of obtaining. The hero fights for the sake of glory; men labor for the sake of subsistence ...

51976

 stand
...f like Romans; neither foolish in our stands, nor cowardly in retire. [.] 5. The highest point; or the ultimate point of progression, where a stop is made, and regressive motion commences. The population of the world will not come to a stand, while the means of subsistence ...

53076

 subsistence
[.] SUBSIST'ENCE

53077

 subsistency
[.] SUBSIST'ENCY, n. Real being; as a chain of differing subsistencies. [.] [.] Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. [.] 1. Competent provisions; means of supporting life. [.] [.] His viceroy could only propose ...

53601

 support
...s a prop, a pillar, a foundation of any kind. [.] 2. That which maintains life; as, food is the support of life, of the body, of strength. Oxygen or vital air has been supposed to be the support of respiration and of heat in the blood. [.] 3. Maintenance; subsistence; ...

53818

 sustenance
[.] SUS'TENANCE, n. [.] 1. Support; maintenance; subsistence; as the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life. [.] 2. That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions. This city has ample sustenance.

55910

 trade
... by the package or in large quantities, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. [.] The carrying trade is that of transporting commodities from one country to another by water. [.] 2. The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence ...

60090

 upon
... we can have no stable government. [.] 16. Engaged in. What is he upon? [.] 17. Having a particular manner. The horse is now upon a hard trot. [.] 18. Resting or standing, as on a condition. He is put upon his good behavior. [.] 19. Noting means of subsistence ...

62200

 will
... will to take the most valuable. These are but different operations of the mind, soul, or intellectual part of man. Great disputes have existed respecting the freedom of the will. Will is often quite a different thing from desire. [.] [.] A power over a mans subsistence, ...

62275

 wine
..., &c.; as currant wine; gooseberry wine. [.] 3. Intoxication. [.] [.] Noah awoke from his wine. Genesis 9. [.] 4. Drinking. [.] [.] They that tarry long at the wine. Proverbs 23. [.] Corn and wine, in Scripture, are put for all kinds of necessaries for subsistence. ...

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

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TRAM'MELED, pp. Caught; confined; shackled.

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