Word Meanings - PENITENTIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.
Additional info about word: PENITENTIAL
Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. Sir W. Scott.
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- COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - PENANCE
A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments - GUILTLESS
1. Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7. 2. Without experience or trial; unacquainted . Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton. - GUILTINESS
The quality or state of being guilty. - PENITENTIAL
Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. - EXPRESSURE
The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak. - GUILTILY
In a guilty manner. - EXPRESS TRAIN
Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops. - EXPRESSIVE
1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning - EXPRESSNESS
The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond. - 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 - CLEANSE
To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet - PENITENTIALLY
In a penitential manner. - EXPRESSIONAL
Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - EXPRESSIONLESS
Destitute of expression. - HEREAFTER
In time to come; in some future time or state. Hereafter he from war shall come. Dryden. - GUILT-SICK
Made sick by consciousness of guilt. "A guilt-sick conscience." Beau. c& El. - HEREAFTERWARD
Hereafter. Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come. Chaucer. - NATURELESS
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - TIME SIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as - INEXPRESSIBLY
In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator. - ORNATURE
Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed. - CONSIGNATURE
Joint signature. Colgrave. - THEREAFTER
1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, - TRANSNATURE
To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel. - UNEXPRESSIBLE
Inexpressible. Tillotson. -- Un`ex*press"i*bly, adv. - DENATURE
To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.