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PEALING
PE’ALING, participle present tense Uttering a loud sound or successive sounds; resounding.
PE’AN, noun [L poean.] A song of praise or triumph.
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Plunder
PLUN’DER, verb transitive
1. To pillage; to spoil; to strip; to take the goods of an enemy by open force. Nebuchadnezzar plundered the temple of the Jews.
2. To take by pillage or open force. The enemy plundered all the goods they found. We say, he plundered the tent, or he plundered the goods of the tent. The first is the proper use of the word.
3. To rob, as a thief; to take from; to strip; as, the thief plundered the house; the robber plundered a man of his money and watch; pirates plunder ships and men.
PLUN’DER, noun That which is taken from an enemy by force; pillage; prey; spoil.
1. That which is taken by theft, robbery or fraud.
Portent
PORTENT‘, noun [Latin portentum.] An omen of ill; any previous sign or prodigy indicating the approach of evil or calamity.
My loss by dire portents the god foretold.
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Potentate
PO’TENTATE, noun A person who possesses great power or sway; a prince; a sovereign; an emperor, king or monarch.
Exalting him not only above earthly princes and potentates, but above the highest of the celestial hierarchy.
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Praise
PRAISE, noun s as z. [Latin pretium.]
1. Commendation bestowed on a person for his personal virtues or worthy actions, on meritorious actions themselves, or on any thing valuable; approbation expressed in words or song. praise may be expressed by an individual, and in this circumstance differs from fame, renown, and celebrity, which are the expression of the approbation of numbers, or public commendation. When praise is applied to the expression of public approbation, it may be synonymous with renown, or nearly so. A man may deserve the praise of an individual, or of a nation.
There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice.
2. The expression of gratitude for personal favors conferred; a glorifying or extolling.
He hath put a new song into my mouth, even praise to our God. Psalms 40:3.
3. The object, ground or reason of praise
He is thy praise and he is thy God. Deuteronomy 10:21.
PRAISE, verb transitive [Latin tollo, extollo; pretium.]
1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of personal worth or actions.
We praise not Hector, though his name we know
Is great in arms; ’tis hard to praise a foe.
2. To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works.
PRAISE him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts. Psalms 148:1.
3. To express gratitude for personal favors. Psa 138.
4. To do honor to; to display the excellence of.
All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord. Psa 145.
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PRECEPT
PRE’CEPT, noun [Latin proeceptum, from proecipio, to command; proe, before, and capio, to take.]
1. In a general sense, any commandment or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; but applied particularly to commands respecting moral conduct. The ten commandments are so many precepts for the regulation of our moral conduct.
No arts are without their precepts.
2. In law, a command or mandate in writing.
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PREDESTINE
PREDES’TINE, verb transitive To decree beforehand; to foreordain.
And bid predestined empires rise and fall.
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PRIVILY
PRIV’ILY, adverb [from privy.] Privately; secretly.
– False teachers among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies. 2 Peter 2:1.
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PSALTERY
PSAL’TERY, noun [Gr.] An instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not now known. That which is now used is a flat instrument in form of a trapezium or triangle truncated at the top, strung with thirteen chords of wire, mounted on two bridges at the sides, and struck with a plectrum or crooked stick.
Praise the Lord with harp; sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Psalms 33:2.
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PSALMODY
PS’ALMODY, noun The act, practice or art of singing sacred songs. psalmody has always been considered an important part of public worship. ArtUk
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