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Action (21 Occurrences)
... of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted
on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a ...
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Active (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action
or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active ...
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Play (61 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character. 9. (vt) To put in action
or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump. 10. ...
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Exercise (35 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in
the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity ...
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Creator (19 Occurrences)
... 2. Purpose in Creation: God's free creative action is destined to realize
archetypal ends and ideals, which are peculiar to Himself. ...
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Scene (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which
the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to ...
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Wash (105 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to
drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to ...
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For (102061 Occurrences)
... 2. (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive
or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of ...
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Incentive (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) That which induces action, motivation; as a work incentive; that which incites,
or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which ...
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Force (250 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with
their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array ...
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Way (7551 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey. 5. (n.) Course or direction
of motion or process; tendency of action; advance. 6 ...
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Gesture
... 1. (n.) A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action
or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or ...
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Work (4564 Occurrences)
... cloth. 21. (vt) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring
gradually into any state by action or motion. 22. (vt ...
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Impulse (18 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of
such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body. ...
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From (49607 Occurrences)
... lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; --
used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state ...
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Function (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable
organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of ...
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Rash (18 Occurrences)
... 5. (superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty. 6. (superl.) Requiring sudden
action; pressing; urgent. 7. (superl.) Esp., overhasty ...
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Reach (63 Occurrences)
... a shell. 7. (vt) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to;
to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. 8. (vt) To ...
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Run (147 Occurrences)
... 2. (pp) of Run. 3. (v.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly,
smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. ...
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Ready (451 Occurrences)
... for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed
for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the ...
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Excitement (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having
increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people. ...
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Discipline (63 Occurrences)
... or moral. 2. (n.) Training to act in accordance with established rules;
accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. 3. (n ...
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Do (21637 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt / auxiliary) To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out
in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can. ...
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Motion (8 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of
a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts. ...
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Medium (4 Occurrences)
... Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion
or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed ...
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Provoke (64 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action,
a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite ...
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Performance (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution;
achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of ...
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Burn (206 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the
action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. ...
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Cause (1309 Occurrences)
... 2. (v.) That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive;
as, cause for rejoicing. 3. (v.) Sake; interest; advantage. ...
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Affair (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize
vaguely; as, an affair of honor, ie, a duel; an affair of love, ie, an intrigue ...
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Triune
... TRINE IMMERSION; TRIUNE IMMERSION. trin tri'-un i-mur'-shun: I. LINGUISTIC BASIS
1. Immersion 2. Triple Action II. DOCTRINAL ARGUMENT III. ...
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Election (6 Occurrences)
... with man, the apostle brings in Esau and Jacob, individuals, twins as yet unborn,
and points to the inscrutable difference of the Divine action toward them as ...
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Trine
... TRINE IMMERSION; TRIUNE IMMERSION. trin tri'-un i-mur'-shun: I. LINGUISTIC BASIS
1. Immersion 2. Triple Action II. DOCTRINAL ARGUMENT III. ...
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Object (76 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which
the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought ...
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Immersion
... TRINE IMMERSION; TRIUNE IMMERSION. trin tri'-un i-mur'-shun: I. LINGUISTIC BASIS
1. Immersion 2. Triple Action II. DOCTRINAL ARGUMENT III. ...
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Personality
... For full personality there must be self-consciousness, with the capability of free
thought and action-self-determination-hence, we speak of personal character ...
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Priesthood (30 Occurrences)
... direction for the three "comforters" when the great trial had passed (Job 1:5; Job
42:8). In these and the like instances there was priestly action no less ...
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Government (20 Occurrences)
... In Matthew 18:17, our Lord, by anticipation, lodges final action, in the
sphere of church discipline, with the church. When the ...
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Conscience (36 Occurrences)
... earliest noticed in literature and most frequently referred to at all times is what
is called the Sequent Conscience-that is to say, it follows action. ...
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Retribution (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the
merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or ...
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Army (401 Occurrences)
... Tribal jealousies, however, impaired the sentiment of nationality and hindered
united action when once the people had been settled in Canaan. ...
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Ethics
... with human character and conduct. It deals with man, not so much as a
subject of knowledge, as a source of action. It has to do ...
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Mediation
... 1. (n.) The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action
as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention. ...
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Act (204 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play
or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed. ...
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Homage (51 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external
action; obeisance. ... 4. (vt) To pay reverence to by external action. ...
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Operation (8 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical,
mechanical, or moral. 2. (n.) The method of working; mode of action. ...
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Ordinance (89 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute,
law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local ...
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Organ (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or
an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, tax gatherers ...
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Joint (12 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured
together. 8. (a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action. ...
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Walk (315 Occurrences)
... 14. (n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of
the historian. 15. (n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior. 16. ...
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Willow (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of
long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with ...
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Influence (13 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Power or authority to change an action or situation; excellence of character
or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is ...
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Iniquity (299 Occurrences)
... Primarily, it denotes "not an action, but the character of an action"
(Oehler), and is so distinguished from "sin" (chaTTa'th). ...
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Instinct (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting
to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct ...
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Irritation (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by
stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected ...
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Figure (19 Occurrences)
... 9. (n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person,
thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. 10. ...
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To (219938 Occurrences)
... course, or tendency toward a time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable
of being regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is ...
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Restraint (34 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from
motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action...
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Right (4703 Occurrences)
... 8. (a.) of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action
is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used ...
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Rouse (25 Occurrences)
... 6. (v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor,
stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. ...
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Rest (831 Occurrences)
... 12. (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has
caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion. 13. ...
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Race (36 Occurrences)
... attended the races. 11. (n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially
when prolonged; hence, career; course of life. 12. (n.) A ...
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Reason (438 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an
opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or ...
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Rule (291 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action;
a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a ...
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Reflection (3 Occurrences)
... 10. (n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means
of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. ...
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Rub (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with
pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back ...
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Enigma
... 2. (n.) An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained;
a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Embarrass (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which
impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as ...
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Evil (1503 Occurrences)
... See TEMPTATION. 1. Moral Evil: By this term we refer to wrongs done to our
fellowman, where the actor is responsible for the action. ...
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Deed (71 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action;
a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done ...
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Design (84 Occurrences)
... formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended
to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose ...
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Dip (17 Occurrences)
... 8. (vi) To perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. ... 13.
(n.) The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. 14. ...
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Matter (263 Occurrences)
... That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing
aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration ...
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Multiplier (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) An instrument for multiplying or increasing by repetition or accumulation
the intensity of a force or action, as heat or electricity. ...
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Micaiah (27 Occurrences)
... Obsequious to their master, they, both by oracular utterance and by the symbolic
action of their leader, Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, gave the king a ...
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Mature (11 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development;
fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state ...
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Morality
... 1. (n.) Virtue; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or
a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right; the relation of conformity ...
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Move (113 Occurrences)
... king. 3. (vt) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse
by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. 4 ...
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Pressure (10 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in
the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with ...
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Power (862 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or
performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of ...
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