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Beseech
BESEE’CH, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive besought.
To entreat; to supplicate; to implore; to ask or pray with urgency; followed by a person; as, ‘I Paul beseech you by the meekness of Christ, ‘, 2 Corinthians 10:1; or by a thing; as, I beseech your patience.
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Bless
BLESS, verb transitive preterit tense and participle present tenseblessed or blest.
1. To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness.
And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Genesis 28:3.
2. To make happy; to make successful; to prosper in temporal concerns; as, we are blest with peace and plenty.
The Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thou doest. Deuteronomy 15:4.
3. To make happy in a future life.
BLESSed are the dead who die in the Lord. Revelation 14:13.
4. To set apart or consecrate to holy purposes; to make and pronounce holy.
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Genesis 2:3
5. To consecrate by prayer; to invoke a blessing upon.
And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed them. Luke 9:16.
6. To praise; to glorify, for benefits received.
BLESS the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Psalms 103:1.
7. To praise; to magnify; to extol, for excellencies. Psalms 104:1.
8. To esteem or account happy; with the reciprocal pronoun.
The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jeremiah 4:2.
9. To pronounce a solemn prophetical benediction upon. Genesis 2:37. Deuteronomy 33:11.
10. In this line of Spenser, it may signify to throw, for this is nearly the primary sense.
His sparkling blade about his head he blest.
Johnson supposes the word to signify to wave or brandish, and to have received this sense from the old rite of blessing a field, by directing the hands to all parts of it.
BLESS in Spenser for bliss, may be so written, not for rhyme merely, but because bless and bliss are from the same root.
Bloodguiltiness
BLOOD’GUILTINESS, noun [blood and guilt.] The guilt or crime of shedding blood. Psalms 51:14.
BRUTE
BRUTE, adjective [Latin brutus, senseless, irrational.]
1. Senseless; unconscious; as the brute earth.
2. Irrational; ferine; as a brute beast.
3. Bestial; in common with beasts; as brute violence.
4. Rough; uncivilized; insensible; as a brute philosopher.
BRUTE, noun A beast; any animal destitute of reason, and of course the word comprehends all animals except man, but is applied mostly to the larger beasts.
1. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; a low bred, unfeeling man.
BRUTE, verb transitive for bruit, to report. [Not used.]
BUCKLER
BUCK’LER, noun A kind of shield, or piece of defensive armor, anciently used in war. It was composed of wood, or wickers woven together, covered with skin or leather, fortified with plates of brass or other metal, and worn on the left arm. On the middle was an umbo, boss or prominence, very useful in causing stones and darts to glance off. The buckler often was four feet long, and covered the whole body.
BUCK’LER, verb transitive To support; to defend. [Not used.]