Word Meanings - ABRAHAMIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

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• ABRAHAMIC
  Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.
• PATRIARCHATE
  A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3. (more info) 1. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. Jer. Taylor. 2. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.
• PATRIARCHISM
  Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.
• PATRIARCHY
  1. The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship. Brerewood. 2. Government by a patriarch; patriarchism.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PATRIARCHSHIP
  A patriarchate. Ayliffe.
• ABRAHAM-MAN; ABRAM-MAN
  One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith. (more info) to the parable of the beggar Lazarus in Luke xvi. Murray (New Eng.
• PATRIARCHDOM
  The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.
• COVENANTING
  Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.
• PATRIARCHIC
  Patriarchal.
• COVENANTEE
  The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
• COVENANTOR
  The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.
• ABRAHAMITIC; ABRAHAMITICAL
  Relating to the patriarch Abraham.
• PATRIARCHAL
  Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. Patriarchal cross , a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller.
• COVENANTER
  One who subscribed and defended the "Solemn League and Covenant." See Covenant. (more info) 1. One who makes a covenant.
• PATRIARCH
  A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch. 3. A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively. The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow.
• COVENANT
  An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." He was born in
• DISCOVENANT
  To dissolve covenant with.
• UNCOVENANTED
  Not having entered into relationship with God through the appointed means of grace; also, not promised or assured by the divine promises or conditions; as, uncovenanted mercies. (more info) 1. Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a