1. conditional election and reprobation, in opposition to absolute predestination. NWAD ARMINIAN.3
2. Universal redemption, or that the atonement was made by Christ for all mankind, though none but believers can be partakers of the benefit. NWAD ARMINIAN.4
3. That man, in order to exercise true faith, must be regenerated and renewed by the operation of the Holy Spirit, which is the gift of God; but that this grace is not irresistible and may be lost; so that men may relapse from a state of grace and die in their sins. NWAD ARMINIAN.5
A cessation of arms, for a short time, by convention; a truce; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the parties. NWAD ARMISTICE.2
1. Defensive arms; any habit worn to protect the body in battle; formerly called harness. A complete armor formerly consisted of a casque or helmet, a gorget, cuirass, gauntlets, tasses, brassets, crushes, and covers for the legs to which the spurs were fastened. NWAD ARMOR.2
In English statutes, armor is used for the whole apparatus of war; including offensive as well as defensive arms. The statutes of armor directed what arms every man should provide, 27. Hen. II. and of Westminster. Hence armor includes all instruments of war. NWAD ARMOR.3
2. In a spiritual sense, a good conscience, faith and Christian graces are called armor. Romans 13:12; Ephesians 6:11, 13; 2 Corinthians 6:7. NWAD ARMOR.4
Coat-armor is the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. NWAD ARMOR.5
Designating the northwestern part of France, formerly called Armorica, afterward Bretague, or Britanny. This part of France is peopled by inhabitants who speak a dialect of the Celtic. It is usually supposed their ancestors were refugees or colonists from England. NWAD ARMORIC.2
1. A place where arms, and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. NWAD ARMORY.2
2. Armor; defensive arms. NWAD ARMORY.3
3. Ensigns armorial. NWAD ARMORY.4
4. The knowledge of coat-armor; skill in heraldry. NWAD ARMORY.5
1. Weapons of offense, or armor for defense and protection of the body. NWAD ARMS.2
2. War; hostility. NWAD ARMS.3
Arms and the man I sing. NWAD ARMS.4
To be in arms, to be in a state of hostility, or in a military life. NWAD ARMS.5
To arms is a phrase which denotes a taking arms for war or hostility; particularly, a summoning to war. NWAD ARMS.6
To take arms, is to arm for attack or defense. NWAD ARMS.7
Bred to arms denotes that a person has been educated to the profession of a soldier. NWAD ARMS.8
3. The ensigns armorial of a family; consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son. NWAD ARMS.9
4. In law, arms are any thing which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another. NWAD ARMS.10
5. In botany, one of the seven species of fulcra or props of plants, enumerated by Linne and others. The different species of arms or armor, are prickles, thorns, forks and stings, which seem intended to protect the plants from injury by animals. NWAD ARMS.11
Sire arms, are such as may be charged with powder, as cannon, muskets, mortars, etc. NWAD ARMS.12
A stand of arms consists of a musket, bayonet, cartridge-box and belt, with a sword. But for common soldiers a sword is not necessary. NWAD ARMS.13
In falconry, arms are the legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot. NWAD ARMS.14
1. A collection or body of men armed for war, and organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions, under proper officers. In general, an army in modern times consists of infantry and cavalry, with artillery; although the union of all is not essential to the constitution of an army. Among savages, armies are differently formed. NWAD ARMY.2
2. A great number; a vast multitude; as an army of locusts or caterpillars. Joel 2:25. NWAD ARMY.3
1. A name by which saffron is sometimes called. NWAD AROPH.2
2. A chimical preparation of Paracelsus, formed by sublimation from equal quantities of hematite and sal ammoniac. The word is also used by the same writer as synonymous with lithontriptic, a solvent for the stone. NWAD AROPH.3
1. About; on all sides; encircling; encompassing; as, a lambent flame around his brows. NWAD AROUND.2
2. In a looser sense, from place to place; at random. NWAD AROUND.3
1. In a circle; on every side. NWAD AROUND.5
2. In a looser sense, at random; without any fixed direction; as, to travel around from town to town. [See Round.] NWAD AROUND.6
To excite into action, that which is at rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion that which is languid; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. NWAD AROUSE.2
The distinct sound of the notes of an instrumental chord, accompanying the voice. NWAD ARPEGGIO.2
In Domesday, it is written arpennus, arpendus, and arpent. Columella mentions that the arepennis was equal to half the Roman juger. The word is supposed to be corrupted from arvipendium, or aripennium, the measuring of land with a cord. NWAD ARPENT.2
A portion of land in France, ordinarily containing one hundred square rods or perches, each of 18 feet. But the arpent is different in different parts of France. The arpent of Paris contains 900 square toises. It is less than the English acre, by about one seventh. NWAD ARPENT.3
1. A distilled liquor applied to a bruise. NWAD ARQUEBUSADE.2
2. The shot of an arquebuse. NWAD ARQUEBUSADE.3
A hand gun; a species of fire arms, anciently used, which was cocked with a wheel. It carried a ball that weighed nearly two ounces. A larger kind, used in fortresses carried a ball of three ounces and a half. NWAD ARQUEBUSE.2
In mineralogy, a species of carbonate of lime, but not pure, and said to contain 3 or 4 per cent. of carbonate of strontian. It differs from pure carbonate of lime, in hardness, specific gravity, crystaline structure, etc. It is harder than calcarious spar, and exhibits several varieties of structure and form. It is often crystallized, generally in hexahedral prisms or pyramids. The massive varieties have usually a fibrous structure, exhibiting various imitative forms, being sometimes coraloidal. NWAD ARRAGONITE.2
1. To call or set a prisoner at the bar of a court, to answer to the matter charged against him in an indictment or information. When called, the indictment is read to him, and he is put to plead, guity or not guilty, and to elect by whom he will be tried. NWAD ARRAIGN.2
2. According to Law writers, to set in order; to fit for trial; as, to arraign a writ of novel disscisin. To arraign the assize, is to cause the tenant to be called to make the plaint, and set the cause in order, that the tenant may be brought to answer. NWAD ARRAIGN.3
3. To accuse; to charge with faults. More correctly, to call before the bar of reason, or taste; to call in question, for faults before any tribunal. NWAD ARRAIGN.4
They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. NWAD ARRAIGN.5
1. The act of arraigning; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an accusation, and to choose his triers. NWAD ARRAIGNMENT.2
2. Accusation. NWAD ARRAIGNMENT.3
3. A calling in question for faults. NWAD ARRAIGNMENT.4
1. To put in proper order; to dispose the parts of a whole in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as troops arranged for battle. NWAD ARRANGE.2
2. To adjust; to settle; to put in order; to prepare; a popular use of the word of very general application. NWAD ARRANGE.3
1. The act of putting in proper order; the state of being put in order; disposition in suitable form. NWAD ARRANGEMENT.2
2. That which is disposed in order; system of parts disposed in due order. NWAD ARRANGEMENT.3
The interest of that portion of social arrangement is in the hands of all those who compose it. NWAD ARRANGEMENT.4
3. Preparatory measure; previous disposition; as, we have made arrangements for receiving company. NWAD ARRANGEMENT.5
4. Final settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a popular use of the word. NWAD ARRANGEMENT.6
5. Classification of facts relating to a subject, in a regular, systematic order; as the Linnean arrangement of plants. NWAD ARRANGEMENT.7
Notorious, in an ill sense; infamous; mere; vile; as an arrant rogue or coward. NWAD ARRANT.2
1. Order; disposition in regular lines; as an army in battle array. Hence a posture of defense. NWAD ARRAY.2
2. Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person. NWAD ARRAY.3
3. In law, the act of impaneling a jury; or a jury impaneled; that is, a jury set in order by the sheriff, or called man by man. NWAD ARRAY.4
Commission of array, in English history, was a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war. NWAD ARRAY.5
1. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle. NWAD ARRAY.7
2. To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; it is applied especially to dress of a splendid kind. NWAD ARRAY.8
Array thyself with glory. Job 40:10. NWAD ARRAY.9
Pharaoh arrayed Joseph with fine linen. Genesis 41:42. NWAD ARRAY.10
3. To set a jury in order for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man. NWAD ARRAY.11
4. To envelop. NWAD ARRAY.12
In gelid caves with horrid glooms arrayed. NWAD ARRAY.13
Behind; at the hinder part. In this sense obsolete. But from this use, we retain the word as a noun in the phrase, in arrear, to signify behind in payment. NWAD ARREAR.2
Arrears; any sum of money remaining unpaid, after previous payment of a part. A person may be in arrear for the whole amount of a debt; but arrears and arrearage imply that apart has been paid. NWAD ARREARAGE.2
In the forest laws of England, a licensing the owner of land in a forest, to inclose it with a small ditch and low hedge, in consideration of a yearly rent. NWAD ARRENTATION.2
1. Snatched away. NWAD ARREPTITIOUS.2
2. Crept in privily. NWAD ARREPTITIOUS.3
1. To obstruct; to stop; to check or hinder motion; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. NWAD ARREST.2
2. To take, seize or apprehend by virtue of a warrant from authority; as, to arrest one for debt or for a crime. NWAD ARREST.3
3. To seize and fix; as, to arrest the eyes or attention. NWAD ARREST.4
The appearance of such a person in the world, and at such a period, ought to arrest the consideration of every thinking mind. NWAD ARREST.5
1. The taking or apprehending of a person by virtue of a warrant from authority. An arrest is made by seizing or touching the body. NWAD ARREST.7
2. Any seizure, or taking by power, physical or moral. NWAD ARREST.8
3. A stop, hindrance or restraint. NWAD ARREST.9
4. In law, an arrest of judgment is the staying or stopping of a judgment after verdict, for causes assigned. Courts have power to arrest judgment for intrinsic causes appearing upon the face of the record; as when the declaration varies from the original writ; when the verdict differs materially from the pleadings; or when the case laid in the declaration is not sufficient in point of law, to found an action upon. The motion for this purpose is called a motion in arrest of judgment. NWAD ARREST.10
5. A mangy humor between the ham and pastern of the hind legs of a horse. NWAD ARREST.11
The order of a judge by which a debtor to the arrestor’s debtor is prohibited to make payment, till the debt due to the arrestor is paid or secured. NWAD ARRESTMENT.2
The decision of a court tribunal or council; a decree published; the edict of a soverign prince. NWAD ARRET.2
Arriere-ban, or ban and arriere ban. This phrase is defined to be a general proclamation of the French kings, by which not only their immediate feudatories, but their vassals, were summoned to take the field for war. In this case, arriere is the French word signifying those who are last or behind, and ban is proclamation. [See Ban.] NWAD ARRIERE.2
Arriere-fee or fief. A fee or fief dependent or a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. NWAD ARRIERE.3
Arriere vassal. The vassal of a vassal. NWAD ARRIERE.4
1. The coming to, or reaching a place, from a distance, whether by water, as in its original sense, or by land. NWAD ARRIVAL.2
2. The attainment or gaining of any object, by effort, agreement, practice or study. NWAD ARRIVAL.3
1. Company coming. [Not used.] NWAD ARRIVANCE.2
2. Arrival; a reading in progress. Obs. NWAD ARRIVANCE.3
1. Literally, to come to the shore, or bank. Hence to come to or reach in progress by water, followed by at. We arrived at Havre De Grace, July 10, 1924. N.W. NWAD ARRIVE.2
2. To come to or reach by traveling on land; as, the post arrives at 7 o’clock. NWAD ARRIVE.3
3. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass by effort, practice, study, enquiry, reasoning or experiment; as, to arrive at an unusual degree of excellence or wickedness; to arrive at a conclusion. NWAD ARRIVE.4
4. To happen or occur. NWAD ARRIVE.5
He to whom this glorious death arrives. NWAD ARRIVE.6
The act or quality of taking much upon one’s self; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; conceitedness; presumption. NWAD ARROGANCE.2
I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease. Isaiah 13:11; 1 Samuel 2:3; Proverbs 8:13. NWAD ARROGANCE.3
1. Assuming; making or having the disposition to make exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one’s self an undue degree of importance; haughty; conceited; applied to persons. NWAD ARROGANT.2
2. Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims of self importance; applied to things; as arrogant pretensions or behavior. NWAD ARROGANT.3
To assume, demand or challenge more than is proper; to make undue claims, from vanity or false pretensions to right or merit; as, the Pope arrogated dominion over kings. NWAD ARROGATE.2
A circuit; a district; a division or portion of territory, in France, for the exercise of a particular jurisdiction. NWAD ARRONDISMENT.2
1. A missive weapon of offense, straight, slender, pointed and barbed, to be shot with a bow. NWAD ARROW.2
2. In scripture, the arrows of God are the apprehensions of his wrath, which pierce and pain the conscience. Job 6:4; Psalm 38:2. In a like figurative manner, arrows represent the judgments of God, as thunder, lightning, tempests and famine. 2 Samuel 22:15; Ezekiel 5:16; Habakkuk 3:11. The word is used also for slanderous words and malicious purposes of evil men. Psalm 11:2; Proverbs 25:18; Jeremiah 9:8; Psalm 64:3. NWAD ARROW.3
1. The head of an arrow. NWAD ARROW-HEAD.2
2. Sagittaria; a genus of aquatic plants, so called from the resemblance of the leaves to the point of an arrow. NWAD ARROW-HEAD.3