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Salvific
SALVIF’IC, adjective [Latin salvus and facio.] Tending to save or secure safety. [A bad word and not used.]
Sanctify
SANC’TIFY, verb transitive [Low Latin sanctifico; from sanctus, holy, and facio, to make.]
1. In a general sense, to cleanse, purify or make holy.
2. To separate, set apart or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use.
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Genesis 2:3.
So under the Jewish dispensation, to sanctify the altar, the temple, the priests, etc.
3. To purify; to prepare for divine service, and for partaking of holy things. Exodus 19:10.
4. To separate, ordain and appoint to the work of redemption and the government of the church. John 10:36.
5. To cleanse from corruption; to purify from sin; to make holy by detaching the affections from the world and its defilements, and exalting them to a supreme love to God.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
6. To make the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
Those judgments of God are the more welcome, as a means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me, as to make me repent of that unjust act.
7. To make free from guilt.
That holy man amaz’d at what he saw, made haste to sanctify the bliss by law.
8. To secure from violation.
Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.
To sanctify God, to praise and celebrate him as a holy being; to acknowledge and honor his holy majesty, and to reverence his character and laws. Isaiah 8:13.
God sanctifies himself or his name, by vindicating his honor from the reproaches of the wicked, and manifesting his glory. Ezekiel 36:23.
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SAR·A·CEN
/ˈserəs(ə)n/
noun
plural noun: Saracens
- an Arab or Muslim, especially at the time of the Crusades.
- a nomad of the Syrian and Arabian desert at the time of the Roman Empire.
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Selah
This word, which is found only in the poetical books of the Old Testament, occurs seventy-one times in the Psalms and three times in Habakkuk. It is probably a term which had a meaning in the musical nomenclature of the Hebrews, though what that meaning may have been is now a matter of pure conjecture. (Gesenius and Ewald and others think it has much the same meaning as our interlude, a pause in the voices singing, while the instruments perform alone.) Smith’s Bible Dictionary
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SEPULTURE
SEP’ULTURE, noun Burial; internment; the act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave.
Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden.
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SOLEMNIZATION
SOLEMNIZA’TION, noun The act of solemnizing; celebration; as the solemnization of a marriage.
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Sufficient
SUFFI’CIENT, adjective [Latin sufficiens.] Enough; equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; competent; as provision sufficient for the family; water sufficient for the voyage; an army sufficient to defend the country.
My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Corinthians 12:9.
1. Qualified; competent; possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; as a man sufficient for an office.
2. Fit; able; of competent power or ability.
Who is sufficient for these things? 2 Corinthians 2:6.
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SUNDER
SUN’DER, verb transitive
1. To part; to separate; to divide; to disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; as, to sunder a rope or cord; to sunder a limb or joint; to sunder friends, or the ties of friendship. The executioner sunders the head from the body at a stroke. A mountain may be sundered by an earthquake.
Bring me lightning, give me thunder;
–Jove may kill, but ne’er shall sunder
2. To expose to the sun. [Provincial in England.]
SUN’DER, noun In sunder in tow.
He cutteth the spear in sunder Psalms 46:9.
SUPERFLUITY
SUPERFLU’ITY, noun [Latin superfluitas; super and fluo, to flow.]
1. Superabundance; a greater quantity than is wanted; as a superfluity of water or provisions.
2. Something that is beyond what is wanted; something rendered unnecessary by its abundance. Among the superfluities of life we seldom number the abundance of money.
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Sorrow
SOR’ROW, noun The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good. or of frustrated hopes of good, or expected loss of happiness; to grieve; to be sad. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry, but the ye sorrowed to repentance. I Cor. 7. Sorrowing most of all for the words which be spoke, that they should see his face no more. Acts 20:1.