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SUNDAY SCHOOL VOCABULARY WORDS
Throughout her writings, Mrs. Eddy was precise in her selection of just the right word which would convey the most scientific and spiritual view. Often a word has a little deeper or different meaning than thought upon first reading. The following is a partial list of words that commonly drive the students and teachers to their dictionary. With the exception of a Bible word or two, some from others in commenting about Mrs. Eddy or Christian Science and a few from hymns, the words are from our Leader’s writings. For the most part, the definitions are from The Student’s Reference Dictionary, an abridged version of Noah Webster’s original Etymology which he completed in the spring of 1843, shortly before he died. The work was revived by Keystone Publishers in 1965. This work has been most helpful to Christian Scientists as it represents the dictionary that Mrs. Eddy used and therefore the meaning of the words when she used them.
ABNEGATION
Thus He teaches mortals to lay down their fleshliness and gain spirituality. This is done through self-abnegation. (S&H 266:18)
Students Ref.: 1. to deny; denial
ABYSS
Had Blondin believed it impossible to walk the rope over Niagara’s abyss of waters, he never could have done it. (S&H 199:25-26)
Students Ref.: n. 1. a bottomless gulf,... 2. that which is immeasurable; that in which anything is lost.
ACCRETION
The advancing stages of Christian Science are gained through growth not accretion; (Mis 206: 11-12)
Webster’s New World: n. 1. growth in size. 2. a growing together of parts normally separate.
3. accumulated matter.
AEOLIAN
The great organ comes from Detroit. It is one of vast compass, with Aeolian attachment,...(Pul 26:12-14)
Students Ref.: a. Pertaining to Aeolus, the god of the winds.
AEON
...as the Bible declares, without the Logos, the Aeon or Word of God, “was not anything made that was made.” (S&H 335:10-12)
Webster’s New World: n. same as eon. Eon. n. ..an eternity.
AESCULAPIUS
The Aesculapius, defined Christianly and demonstrated scientifically, is the divine Principle whose rules demonstrated proves one’s faith by his works. (My 105:4)
Webster’s New World: Rom. Myth. the god of medicine and healing.
AESTHETIC
“The stoutest enemies of Christian Science will confess at least an aesthetic debt to that great and growing cult...” (My 88:27-28)
Students Ref.: n. The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful, or treats of the principles of the fine arts....
ANATHEMUS
...his understanding of this divine Science brought upon him the anathemus of the age. (S&H: 315:9)
Students Ref.: n. to place behind, backward, or at a distance, to separate. 1. excommunication with curses. Hence a curse or denunciation with ecclesiastical authority, accompanying excommunication.
ANTIPODE
...;a so-called man, whose origin, substance, and mind are found to be the antipode of God, or Spirit; (S&H 580: 11-13
Students Ref.: n. A term applied to those who live on opposite sides of the globe, and, of course, whose feet are directly opposite. Webster’s New World: anything diametrically opposite; exact opposite.
Transitory thoughts are the antipodes (pronounced ant-tip-oh-dees) of everlasting Truth. (S&H 286: 27-78)
Webster’s New World: n. two opposite or contrary things.
APHORISMS
Christian Science is neither made up of contradictory aphorisms nor of the inventions of those who scoff at God. (S&H 358:13-15)
Student’s Ref.: A maxim; a precept of principle expressed in a few words.
APODICTICAL
This apodictical Principle points to the revelation of Immanuel, “God with us,” - the sovereign ever-presence, delivering the children of men from every ill “that flesh is heir to.” (S&H 107:7-10)
a. Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction; clearly proving. Websters Ninth: adj. expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty.
ARDUOUS
The refutation becomes arduous, not because the testimony of sin or disease is true, but solely on account of the tenacity of the belief in its truth,...(S&H 396: 16-18)
Students Ref.: a. 1. High, lofty, in a literal sense. 2. Difficult; attended with great labor like the ascending of activities.
AVOIRDUPOIS
If the man of more than average avoirdupois kneels on a stool in church, let the leaner sort console this brother’s necessity by doing likewise. (Mis. 131:7-9)
Students Ref.: to have weight.
BANEFUL
In reality you manipulate because you are ignorant of the baneful effects of magnetism, or are not sufficiently spiritual to depend on Spirit. (S&H 181: 16-18)
Webster’s New World: adj. causing death, distress or ruin; deadly.
BELIAL
Paul asked, “What concord hath Christ with Belial?” (IICor vi. 15)-(S&H 216: 25-27)
Students Ref.: As a noun: unprofitibleness; wickedness. Hence the name of an evil spirit.
As an adjective: worthless; wicked. Smith’s Bible Dictionary: The meaning of this word as found in the Scriptures is worthlessness, hence recklessness, lawlessness. Satan and the personification of all that is bad.
CALCULUS
The numerals of infinity, called seven days, can never be reckoned according to the calendar of time. These days will appear as mortality disappears, and they will reveal eternity, newness of Life, in which all sense of error forever disappears and thought accepts the divine infinite calculus. (S&H 520: 10)
Webster’s Second: n. any process of reasoning by use of symbols; an offshoot of the infinitesimal calculus whose fundamental notion is the variation of a curve and whose problem is to find the form of a function that shall maximize or minimize a definite integral of an expression involving that function.
CONCOMITANT
Sin, sickness and death were evil’s concomitants. (Un 46:21)
Students Ref.: n. A companion; a person or thing that accompanies another, or collaterally connected.
CONJUGALITY
In the present or future, some extra throe of error may conjure up a new-style conjugality,
(Mis 285:21-23)
Students Ref.: a. marriage; to yoke or couple. 1. Belonging to marriage; matrimonial. 2. Suitable to the married state.
COSMOS
The chaos of mortal mind is made the stepping-stone to the cosmos of immortal Mind. (Un 56:1)
Students Ref.: n. order, harmony. 1. the universe or universality of created things; -so called from its perfect arrangement. 2. the doctrine of the universe; the system of law, harmony, and truth combined within the universe.
DISSOLUTE
If a dissolute husband leaves his wife,...(S&H 63:28)
Students Ref.: a. Loose in behavior and morals; given to vice; lewd; wanton...
DOLING
...stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science,... (S&H 367:6-8)
Webster’s New World: v. to give out sparingly
DOLOROUS
Mortal theories make friends of sin, sickness, and death; whereas the spiritual scientific facts of existence include no member of this dolorous and fatal triad. (S&H 552:10)
Students Ref.: a. 1. Sorrowful; impressing sorrow or grief. 2. Painful; giving pain. 3. Expressing pain or grief.
DOUBLE
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elija said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. (II Kings 2:9)
Students Ref.: a. 1. Two of a sort together; one corresponding to the other. 2. containing the same quantity or length repeated. -II Kings 2.
EGOISM, EGOIST, EGOISTIC (not to be confused with egotist)
Egoism is a more philosophical word, signifying a passionate love of self, which doubts all existence except its own. An egoist, therefore, is one uncertain of everything except his own existence....God is egoistic , knowing only His own all-presence, all-knowledge, all-power. (Un 27:8-15), (Students Ref.)
ENIGMA, ENIGMATIC
Mortal existence is an enigma. (S&H 70:1)
Students Ref.: n. to hint. A dark saying, in which some known thing is concealed under dark language; an obscure question; a riddle. A question, a saying, a painting containing a hidden meaning, which is proposed to be guessed.
EQUANIMITY
...with an equanimity so settled that no passing breath nor accidental disturbance shall agitate or ruffle it.;...(Mis 224: 21-23)
Students Ref.: n. Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed, which sustains prosperity without excessive joy, and adversity without violent agitation of the passions or depression of the spirits.
ESCUTCHEON
There should be no blot on the escutcheon of our Christliness when we offer our gift upon the alter.
(Ret 86:14)
Students Ref.: n. a shield. 1. A shield on which a coat of arms is represented; the shield of a family.
2. That part of a vessel’s stern on which her name is written.
EXPUNGE
The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged. (Ret 22:1)
Students Ref.: v. 1. to blot out; to rub out; to obliterate. 2. to efface; to strike out; to destroy.
FABULOUS
God is not the author of mortal discords. Therefore we accept the conclusion that discords have only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine Truth and Love destroy. (S&H 231:16)
Students Ref.: a. Feigned, as a story; 2. Related in fable; invented; not real;
FUSTIAN
In vain do the manger and the cross tell their story to pride and fustian. (S&H 142:15-16)
Students Ref.: n. 1. a kind of coarse twill cotton stuff. 2. an inflated style of writing in which high sounding words are used above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; a swelling style; bombast.
GLOAMING
...the adult must be taken out of his darkness before he can get rid of the illusive sufferings which throng the gloaming. (S&H 371: 16-18)
Students Ref.: n. Twilight. 2. Sullenness; melancholy.
GUERDON
The great guerdon of divine Love, which moves the hearts of men to goodness and greatness, will reward these givers, and this encourages me to continue to urge the perfect model for your acceptance as the ultimate of Christian Science. (My 123:5)
Students Ref.: n. A reward; a requital; a recompense
HECATOMBS
The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguements,...(S&H 367: 3)
Students Ref.: n. a hundred, hundreds.
HOMOEOPATHY
Her experiments in homoeopathy had made her skeptical as to material curative methods.
(S&H 152:28-29)
Students Ref.: n. The doctrine or theory of curing diseases with very minute doses of medicine, by producing in the patient affections similar to those of the disease.
IMPORTUNATE, IMPORTUNATELY
One thing I have greatly desired, and again earnestly request, namely, that Christian Scientists, here and elsewhere, pray daily for themselves; not verbally, nor on bended knee, but mentally, meekly, and importunately. (Mis 127: 7-11)
Students Ref.: a. 1. Bearing on; urgent. 2. Pressing. 3. Inciting urgently. Webster’s New World: refusing to be denied; urging persistently or repeatedly; urgently.
INANITY
As manifested by mankind it (evil) stands for a lie, nothing claiming to be something, - for lust, dishonesty, selfishness, envy, hypocrisy, slander, hate, theft, adultery, murder, dementia, insanity, inanity, devil, hell, with all the etceteras that word includes. (S&H 330: 28-32)
Students Ref.: n. emptiness; void space; vacuity.
INCULCATE
This thought of human, material nothingness, which Science inculcates, enrages the carnal mind and is the main cause of the carnal mind’s antagonism. (S&H 345: 28)
Students Ref.: v. To impress by frequent admonitions; to teach and impress by frequent repetitions; to urge on the mind.
INEFFABLE
Which was the higher tribute to such ineffable affection, the hospitality of the Pharisee or the contrition of the Magdalen? (S&H 364:8-10)
Students Ref.: a. Unspeakable; unutterable; that cannot be expressed in words; (usually in a good sense)
INIMICAL
He cannot annul these regulations by an opposite law that food shall be inimical to existence.
(S&H 389:20)
Students Ref.: a. 1. Unfriendly; 2. Adverse; hurtful.
LICENTIOUSNESS
The belief in venereal diseases tears the black mask from the shameless brow of licentiousness, torments its victim, and thus may save him from his destroyer. (Mis 210: 23-26)
Student’s Ref.: n. excessive use of liberty, (licentious, v. 1. using license; indulging freedom to excess; unrestrained by law or morality; loose; dissolute. 2. exceeding the limits of law or propriety; wanton; unrestrained.
LOGOS
The true Logos is demonstrably Christian Science, the natural law of harmony which overcomes discord-...(S&H 134: 21-22)
Webster’s New World: Christian Theo.: the Word or ultimate reality; the sustaining and creative spirit of God as revealed in Jesus: John 1.
MOIETY
Scarcely a moiety, compared with the whole of the Scriptures and the Christian Science textbook, is yet assimilated spiritually by the most faithful seekers; yet this assimilation is indispensable to every Christian Scientist. (Mis 317:14-18)
Students Ref.: n. The half; one of two equal parts.
MUTABLE
The mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect. (S&H 300: 14-15)
Student’s Ref.: a. 1. Subject to change; changeable; that which may be altered in form, qualities or nature. 2. Inconstant; unsettled; unstable; susceptible to change.
NOUMENON
Divine Love is the noumenon and phenomenon, the Principle and practice of divine metaphysics.
(My 287: 9-11)
Student’s Ref.: n. the thing perceived; to perceive. The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon in which it occurs to apprehension, and by which it is interpreted and understood. (Also see Mis 216:25-30)
PANACEA
Here Christian Science is the sovereign panacea, giving strength to the weakness of mortal mind,-strength from the immortal and omnipotent Mind,-...(S&H 407:11-14)
Students Ref.: n. to cure. A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine.
PANOPLY
Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. (S&H 571: 18-19)
Students Ref.: n. Complete armor and defense.
PANTHEISM
...this immortal saying can never be tested or proven true upon a false premise, such as the mortal belief the soul is in body, and life and intelligence are in matter. That doctrine is not theism, but pantheism. (Mis 76:7-11)
Students Ref.: n. The doctrine that the universe is God, or the system of theology in which it is maintained that the universe is the supreme God.
PARTURITION
Mind controls the birth-throes in the lower realms of nature, where parturition is without suffering.
Webster: n.: the action or process of bringing forth or giving birth to offspring.
PERFIDY
Perfidy of an inferior quality, such as manages to evade the law, and which dignified natures cannot stoop to notice, except legally, disgraces human nature more than do most vices. (Mis 226:25)
Students Ref.: n. The act of violating faith, a promise, vow, or allegiance; treachery; the violation of a trust reposed.
PERSPICACITY
It raises the thinker into his native air of insight and perspicacity. S&H 128:18 Students ref: n. 1. Acuteness of sight; quickness of sight. 2. Acuteness of discernment or understanding.
PERQUISITE
So dear, so due, to God is obedience, that it reaches high heaven in the common walks of life, and it affords even me a perquisite of joy. (My 189: 4-7)
Students Ref.: n. A fee or pecuniary allowance to an officer for services beyond his normal salary or settled wages.
PREENS
Fixing your gaze on realities supernal, you will rise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the bird which has burst from the egg and preens its wings for a skyward flight. (S&H 261: 27-30)
Students Ref.: v. This word denotes the use of the beak in cleaning and composing the feathers. To pick. To clean, compose and dress the feathers, as birds, to enable them to glide more easily through the air or water. . For this purpose they are furnished with two glands on their rump, which secrete an oily substance into a bag from which they draw it with the bill and spread it over their feathers.
PINIONS
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. (S&H 454:19-21) Student’s Ref.: n. 1. The joint of a bird’s wing remotest from the body; 2. A wing; 3. A feather; “Hope humbly then, on trembling pinions soar.” -Pope
PRETERNATURAL
The true Logos is demonstrably Christian Science, the natural law of harmony which overcomes discord,- not because this Science is supernatural or preternatural, nor because it is an infraction of divine law, but because it is the immutable law of God, good. (S&H 134: 21-26)
Students Ref.: a. Beyond what is natural or different from what is natural; irregular. We call those events in the physical world preternatural, which are extraordinary, which are deemed to be beyond or without the ordinary course of things, and yet are not deemed miraculous, in distinction to events which are supernatural, which cannot be produced by physical laws or powers, and must therefore be produced by a direct exertion of omnipotence.
PROCLIVITIES, PROCLIVITY
Each class shall consist of not over thirty-three students, carefully selected, and only of such as have promising proclivities toward Christian Science. (Mis 315:12-15)
Students Ref.: n. 1. Inclination; propensity, proneness; tendency. 2. Readiness; facility of learning.
PROCURATOR
Love that is not the procurator of happiness, declares itself the antipode of Love; (Mis 351: 25-27)
Webster’s New World: n. In the Roman Empire, an official who managed the financial affairs of a province or acted as a governor of a territory not having the status of a province.. 2. a person employed to manage another’s affairs.
PRODIGIOUS
The prodigious convention of Christian Scientists in Boston...(My 92: 9-10)
Students Ref.: a. 1. Very great; huge; enormous in size, quantity or extent; as a mountain.
2. Wonderful; astonishing.
PROFFER
We proffer thee warm welcome with our hand, though not our knees. (My 337: 5-6)
Students Ref.: v. 1. To offer for acceptance; 2. To attempt of one’s own accord.
PROMULGATED
No systematic or theoretical classification of diseases or of therapeutic agents, ever yet promulgated, is true. (S&H 164: 5-6)
Students Ref.: pp. Published or made publicly known.
PROPITIATE
The atonement of Christ reconciles man to God, not God to man; for the Principle of Christ is God, and how can God propitiate Himself? (S&H 18: 13-15)
Students Ref.: v. To conciliate; to appease one offended and render him favorable; to make propitious.
PROPAGATE
Spiritual development germinates not from seed sown in the soil of material hopes, but when these decay, Love propagates anew the higher joys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth. (S&H 66: 11)
Students Ref.: v. 1. To continue or multiply the kind by successive reproduction. 2. to extend; to spread;
3. To spread from person to person; to extend; to give birth to; 4. To carry from place to place; to extend by planting; 5. To extend; to increase.
PROSAICS
Now I am done with homilies and, you may add, with tedious prosaics. (My 122:9)
Students Ref.: n. Pertaining to prose; 2. dull; uninteresting.
PROSODY
After my discovery of Christian Science, most of the knowledge that I had gleaned from schoolbooks vanished like a dream. Learning was so illumined, that grammar was eclipsed,. Etymology was divine history, voicing the idea of God in man’s origin and signification. Syntax was spiritual order and unity. Prosody, the song of angels, and no earthly or inglorious theme. (Ret 10:11-18)
Students Ref.: n. That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and the laws of versification. It includes also the art of adjusting the accent and metrical arrangements of syllables.
PSYCHOLOGY
The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventative and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood. (S&H 369: 23-26)
Students Ref.: n. the discourse or treatise of the human soul; or the doctrine of man’s spiritual nature.
PURGATION
Mental purgation must go on; (Mis 41:13-14)
Students Ref.: n. The act or operation of clearing, cleansing, or purifying by separating or carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous.
RIVEN
Open now my eyes to see, As the clouds of sense are riven, We behold reality, Know the glory of Thy heaven. (Hymn 85, 2nd verse)
Webster’s New World: pp. torn apart or split.
RUMINATES
The patient feels ill, ruminates, and the trial commences. (S&H 430:19-20)
Students Ref.: v. 1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. 2. to muse; to meditate; to think again and again; to ponder. It is natural to ruminate on misfortunes.
SALUTARY
The pains of sense are salutary, if they wrench away false pleasurable beliefs and transplant the affections from sense to Soul, where the creations of God are good, “rejoicing the heart”. (S&H 265: 31)
Students Ref.: a. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health.
STOLIDITY
Stolidity, which is a resisting state of mortal mind, suffers less, only because it knows less of material law. (S&H 388:5)
Student’s Ref.: n. Dullness of intellect; stupidity.
SUBORDINATE
We should subordinate material law to spiritual law. (S&H 349: 9-10)
Students Ref.: v. To place in an order or rank below something else; to make or consider or less value or importance, as to subordinate temporal to spiritual things.
SUCCOR
For His is the greatness, the power and the glory, The victory His, when for succor we call; (hymn 292: 2nd verse)
Student’s Ref.: v. to run to; or to run in support; n. 1. assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want or distress. 2. The person or thing that brings relief.
THEODICY
Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness of all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the of divine opposite so-called action, — evil, occultism, necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism.
Theodicy. n. A vindication of the justice of God in regard to the natural and moral evil that exists under his givenrment.
THEOSOPHY
While members of this Church do not believe in the doctrines of theosophy,...(Man 47: 24-26)
Students Ref.: n. Supposed intercourse with God or superior spirits, and consequent attainment of superhuman knowledge, by physical process. Webster’s New World: n. 1. any of various philosophies or religious systems that propose to establish direct , mystical contact with divine principle through contemplation.
TRENCHANT
The trenchant truth that cuts its way through iron and sod, most men avoid until compelled to glance at it. (My 160: 14-16)
Students Ref.: a. Cutting; sharp.
THROE
In the present or future, some extra throe of error may conjure up a new-style conjugality,...
(Mis 285: 21-23)
Students Ref.: n. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony. Particularly applied to the anguish of travail in childbirth.
TREMULOUS
In metaphysics we learn that the strength of peace and of suffering is sublime, a true, tried mental conviction that is neither tremulous nor relapsing. (My 21: 7-9)
Students Ref.: a. Trembling; affected with fear or timidity; as a trembling Christian.
TRYST
Daily we keep our tryst. (Hymn 275: 3rd verse)
Student’s Ref.: n. An appointment to meet; an appointed place of meeting.
UNCTUOUS
In unctuous unison with nature, mortals are hoping and working, putting off outgrown, wornout, or soiled garments--...(Pan 1:11-13)
Students Ref.: a. Fatty, oily, greasy.
UNFEIGNED
I cannot feel justified in turning aside for one hour from contemplation of them and of the faith unfeigned. (Mis 136: 9-11)
Student’s Ref.: a. Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypothetical; real; sincere; as in unfeigned piety to God; unfeigned love to man.
VACUITY
To take all earth’s beauty into one gulp of vacuity and label beauty nothing, is ignorantly to caricature God’s creation,...(Mis 87: 3-5)
Students Ref.: Emptiness; void.
VAPID
There is no vapid fury of mortal mind — expressed in earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity — and this so-called mind is self-destroyed. S&H 293:21-23
Students Ref.: a. 1. To fly off, to escape, to strike down. 2. Unanimated, having lost its life, dead, dull, spiritless, flat.
VENAL
...as a criminal appeases, with a money bag, the venal officer. (Un 15:26)
Students Ref.: a. Mercenary; prostitute; that may be bought or purchased for money.
VERNAL
Are we feeling the vernal freshness and sunshine of enlightened faith? (Mis 343:18)
Students Ref.: a. 1. belonging in spring; appearing in spring. 2. Belonging to youth, the spring of life.
VESPER
...both ringing like soft vesper chimes adown the corridors of time, (‘02: 4: 15-16)
Students Ref.: n. The evening star; the evening song.
VESTIBULE
Matter is not the vestibule of Spirit. (S&H 356: 8)
Students Ref.: n. The porch or entrance into a house, or a large open space before the entrance, but covered.
VESTIGE
...but the drug is frequently attenuated to such a degree that not a vestige of it remains. (S&H 152:32-2)
Students Ref.: n. A track or footstep; the mark of the foot left on the earth; but mostly used for the mark or remains of something else.
VIAND
The mind may even be cognizant of a present flavor and odor, when no viand touches the palate and no scent salutes the nostrils. (S&H 88:6)
Students Ref.: n. Meat dressed; food
VICISSITUDE(S)
Let us rejoice that chill vicissitudes have not withheld the timely shelter of this house. (Pul 10: 23-25)
Students Ref.: n. 1. Regular change or succession of one thing to another; as in day and night, winter and summer. 2. Change, revolution, as in human affairs.
VITIATE
God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man. (S&H 393: 13-15)
Students Ref.: v. 1. to injure the substance or qualities of a thing, so as to impair or spoil its use and value. 2. To render defective; to destroy.
VIVIFY
Brethren, our annual meeting is a grave guardian. It requires you to report progress, to refresh memory, to rejuvenate the branches and to vivify the buds, to bend upwards the tendrils and to incline the vine towards the parent trunk.. (My 125: 6)
Students Ref.: v. To endue with life; to animate; to make to be living.
VOTARIES
God was not the author of it; hence the words of our Master: “He is a liar, and the father of it;” also, the character of the votaries to “other gods” which sprung from it. (Mis 196:14)
Students Ref.: n. One devoted, consecrated or engaged by a vow or promise.
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