Raca - R'ACA, n. A Syriac word signifying empty, beggarly, foolish; a term of extreme contempt. Mat 5.
Rage - RAGE, n. [Heb. to grind or gnash the teeth.]
1. Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury. Passion sometimes rises to rage.
Torment and loud lament and furious rage.
2. Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst.
3. Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest.
4. Enthusiasm; rapture.
Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made that art which was a rage.
5. Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.
RAGE, v.i.
1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
At this he inly rag'd.
2. To be violent and tumultuous.
Why do the heathen rage? Psa 2.
3. To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds.
4. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo.
5. To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously.
The chariots shall rage in the streets. Nahum 2.
The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag'd.
6. To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.]
Raise - RAISE, v.t. raze. [This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels, Luke 3:8. John 6:40, 44. These verbs appear to be the L. gradior, gressus, without the prefix. L. to go to walk, to pass.]
1. To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to raise a stone or weight; to raise the body in bed.
The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up.
Acts 12.
2. To set upright; as, to raise a mast.
3. To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to raise the frame of a house.
4. To build; as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall, &c.
I will raise forts against thee. Isa 29. amos 9.
5. To rebuild.
They shall raise up the former desolations. Isa 61.
6. To form to some height by accumulation; as, to raise a heap of stones. Josh 8.
7. To make; to produce; to amass; as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.
8. To enlarge; to amplify.
9. To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to raise one from a low estate.
10. To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to raise one to an office of distinction.
This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.
11. To enhance; to increase; as, to raise the value of coin; to raise the price of goods.
12. To increase in current value.
the plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.
13. To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to raise a tempest or tumult.
He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind. Psa 107.
14. To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up. Acts 14.
AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.
15. To rouse; to awake; to stir up.
They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep. Job 14.
16. To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness. The pulse is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.
17. To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to raise a family.
18. To bring into being.
God vouchsafes to raise another word for him.
19. To bring from a state of death to life.
He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Rom 4. 1 Cor 15.
20. To call into view from the state of separate spirits; as, to raise a spirit by spells and incantations.
21. To invent and propagate; to originate; to occasion; as, to raise a report or story.
22. To set up; to excite; to begin by loud utterance; as, to raise a shout or cry.
23. To utter loudly; to begin to sound or clamor. He raised his voice against the measures of administration.
24. To utter with more strength or elevation; to swell. Let the speaker raise his voice.
25. To collect; to obtain; to bring into a sum or fund. Government raises money by taxes, excise and imposts. Private persons and companies raise money for their enterprises.
26. To levy; to collect; to bring into service; as, to raise troops; to raise an army.
27. To give rise to.
28. To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, &c.; to raise horses, oxen or sheep.
[The English now use grow in regard to crops; as, to grow wheat. This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently some persons have adopted it from the English books. We always use raise, but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the southern states.]
29. To cause to swell, heave and become light; as, to raise dough or paste by yeast or leaven.
Miss Liddy can dance a jig and raise paste.
30. To excite; to animate with fresh vigor; as, to raise the spirits or courage.
31. To ordain; to appoint; or to call to and prepare; to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose; a Scriptural sense.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren. Deu 18.
For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power. Exo 9. Judg 2.
32. To keep in remembrance. Ruth 4.
33. To cause to exist by propagation. Mat 22.
34. To incite; to prompt. Ezra 1.
35. To increase in intensity or strength; as, to raise the heat of a furnace.
36. In seamen's language, to elevate, as an object by a gradual approach to it; to bring to be seen at a greater angle; opposed to laying; as, to raise the land; to raise a point.
To raise a purchase, in seamen's language, is to dispose instruments or machines in such a manner as to exert any mechanical force required.
To raise a siege, is to remove a besieging army and relinquish an attempt to take the place by that mode of attack, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.
Raise - RAISE, v.t. raze. [This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels, Luke 3:8. John 6:40, 44. These verbs appear to be the L. gradior, gressus, without the prefix. L. to go to walk, to pass.]
1. To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to raise a stone or weight; to raise the body in bed.
The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up.
Acts 12.
2. To set upright; as, to raise a mast.
3. To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to raise the frame of a house.
4. To build; as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall, &c.
I will raise forts against thee. Isa 29. amos 9.
5. To rebuild.
They shall raise up the former desolations. Isa 61.
6. To form to some height by accumulation; as, to raise a heap of stones. Josh 8.
7. To make; to produce; to amass; as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.
8. To enlarge; to amplify.
9. To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to raise one from a low estate.
10. To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to raise one to an office of distinction.
This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.
11. To enhance; to increase; as, to raise the value of coin; to raise the price of goods.
12. To increase in current value.
the plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.
13. To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to raise a tempest or tumult.
He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind. Psa 107.
14. To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up. Acts 14.
AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.
15. To rouse; to awake; to stir up.
They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep. Job 14.
16. To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness. The pulse is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.
17. To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to raise a family.
18. To bring into being.
God vouchsafes to raise another word for him.
19. To bring from a state of death to life.
He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Rom 4. 1 Cor 15.
20. To call into view from the state of separate spirits; as, to raise a spirit by spells and incantations.
21. To invent and propagate; to originate; to occasion; as, to raise a report or story.
22. To set up; to excite; to begin by loud utterance; as, to raise a shout or cry.
23. To utter loudly; to begin to sound or clamor. He raised his voice against the measures of administration.
24. To utter with more strength or elevation; to swell. Let the speaker raise his voice.
25. To collect; to obtain; to bring into a sum or fund. Government raises money by taxes, excise and imposts. Private persons and companies raise money for their enterprises.
26. To levy; to collect; to bring into service; as, to raise troops; to raise an army.
27. To give rise to.
28. To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, &c.; to raise horses, oxen or sheep.
[The English now use grow in regard to crops; as, to grow wheat. This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently some persons have adopted it from the English books. We always use raise, but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the southern states.]
29. To cause to swell, heave and become light; as, to raise dough or paste by yeast or leaven.
Miss Liddy can dance a jig and raise paste.
30. To excite; to animate with fresh vigor; as, to raise the spirits or courage.
31. To ordain; to appoint; or to call to and prepare; to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose; a Scriptural sense.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren. Deu 18.
For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power. Exo 9. Judg 2.
32. To keep in remembrance. Ruth 4.
33. To cause to exist by propagation. Mat 22.
34. To incite; to prompt. Ezra 1.
35. To increase in intensity or strength; as, to raise the heat of a furnace.
36. In seamen's language, to elevate, as an object by a gradual approach to it; to bring to be seen at a greater angle; opposed to laying; as, to raise the land; to raise a point.
To raise a purchase, in seamen's language, is to dispose instruments or machines in such a manner as to exert any mechanical force required.
To raise a siege, is to remove a besieging army and relinquish an attempt to take the place by that mode of attack, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.
Ransom - RAN'SOM, n.
1. The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner or slave, or for goods captured by an enemy; that which procures the release of a prisoner or captive, or of captured property, and restores the one to liberty and the other to the original owner.
By his captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty, Richard was hindered from pursuing the conquest of Ireland.
2. Release from captivity, bondage or the possession of an enemy. They were unable to procure the ransom of the prisoners.
3. In law, a sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; or a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
4. In Scripture, the price paid for a forfeited life, or for delivery or release from capital punishment.
Then he shall give for the ransom of his life, whatever is laid upon him. Exo 21.
5. The price paid for procuring the pardon of sins and the redemption of the sinner from punishment.
Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom. Job 33.
The Son of man came - to give his life a ransom for many. Mat 20. Mark 10.
RAN'SOM, v.t.
1. To redeem from captivity or punishment by paying an equivalent; applied to persons; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
2. To redeem from the possession of an enemy by paying a price deemed equivalent; applied to goods or property.
3. In Scripture, to redeem from the bondage of sin, and from the punishment to which sinners are subjected by the divine law.
The ransomed of the Lord shall return. Isa 35.
4. To rescue; to deliver. Hosea 13.