Regard - REG'ARD, v.t.
1. To look towards; to point or be directed.
It is a peninsula which regardeth the main land.
2. To observe; to notice with some particularity.
If much you note him, you offend him; feed and regard him not.
3. To attend to with respect and estimation; to value.
This aspect of mine, the best regarded virgins of your clime have lov'd.
4. To attend to as a thing that affects our interest or happiness; to fix the mind on as a matter of importance. He does not regard the pain he feels. He does not regard the loss he has suffered. He regards only the interest of the community.
5. To esteem; to hold in respect and affection. The people regard their pastor, and treat him with great kindness. 2 Ki 3.
6. To keep; to observe with religious or solemn attention.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord.
Rom 14.
7. To attend to as something to influence our conduct.
He that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Eccl 11.
8. To consider seriously; to lay to heart.
They regard not the work of the Lord. Isa 5.
9. To notice with pity or concern. Deu 28.
10. To notice favorably or with acceptance; to hear and answer.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute. Psa 102.
11. To love and esteem; to practice; as, to regard iniquity in the heart. Psa 64.
12. To respect; to have relation to. The argument does not regard the question.
To regard the person, to value for outward honor, wealth or power. Mat 22.
REG'ARD, n.
1. Look; aspect directed to another.
But her with stern regard he thus repell'd.
[Nearly or quite obsolete.]
2. Attention of the mind; respect in relation to something. He has no regard to the interest of society; his motives are wholly selfish.
3. Respect; esteem; reverence; that view of the mind which springs from value, estimable qualities, or any thing that excites admiration.
With some regard to what is just and right they'll lead their lives.
To him they had regard, because of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. Acts 8.
4. Respect; account.
Change was thought necessary, in regard of the injury the church received by a number of things then in use.
5. Relation; reference.
To persuade them to pursue and preserve in virtue, in regard to themselves; in justice and goodness, in regard to their neighbors; and piety towards God.
6. Note; eminence; account.
Mac Ferlagh was a man of meanest regard among them.
7. Matter demanding notice.
8. Prospect; object of sight. [Not proper nor in use.]
9. In the forest laws, view; inspection.
Court of regard, or survey of dogs, a forest court in England, held every third year for the lawing or expeditation of mastifs, that is, for cutting off the claws and ball of the fore feet, to prevent them from running after deer.
Regard - REG'ARD, v.t.
1. To look towards; to point or be directed.
It is a peninsula which regardeth the main land.
2. To observe; to notice with some particularity.
If much you note him, you offend him; feed and regard him not.
3. To attend to with respect and estimation; to value.
This aspect of mine, the best regarded virgins of your clime have lov'd.
4. To attend to as a thing that affects our interest or happiness; to fix the mind on as a matter of importance. He does not regard the pain he feels. He does not regard the loss he has suffered. He regards only the interest of the community.
5. To esteem; to hold in respect and affection. The people regard their pastor, and treat him with great kindness. 2 Ki 3.
6. To keep; to observe with religious or solemn attention.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord.
Rom 14.
7. To attend to as something to influence our conduct.
He that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Eccl 11.
8. To consider seriously; to lay to heart.
Region - REGION, n. re'jun. [L. regio, rego.]
1. A tract of land or space of indefinite extent, usually a tract of considerable extent. It is sometimes nearly synonymous with country; as all the region of Argob. Deu 3.
He had dominion over all the region on this side the river. 1 Ki 4.
So we speak of the airy region, the etherial regions, the upper regions, the lower regions.
2. The inhabitants of a region or district of country. Mat 3.
3. A part of the body; as the region of the heart or liver.
4. Place; rank.
He is of too high a region. [Unusual.]
Reign - REIGN, v.i. rane. [L. regno, a derivative of rego, regnum.]
1. To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to rule; to exercise government, as a king or emperor; or to hold the supreme power. George the third reigned over Great Britain more than fifty years.
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness. Isa 32.
2. To be predominant; to prevail.
Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer or autumn.
3. To rule; to have superior or uncontrolled dominion. Rom 6.
[This word is never applied to the exercise of supreme power by a legislative body or the executive administration, in the United States.]
REIGN, n. rane. [L. regnum.]
1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty.
He who like a father held his reign.
2. The time during which a king, queen or emperor possesses the supreme authority. The Spanish armada was equipped to invade England in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Magna Charta was obtained in the reign of king John.
3. Kingdom; dominion.
Saturn's sons received the threefold reign of heav'n, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.
4. Power; influence.
5. Prevalence.
Release - RELE'ASE, v.t.
1. To set free from restraint of any kind, either physical or moral; to liberate from prison, confinement or servitude.
Mat 15. Mark 15.
2. To free from pain, care, trouble, grief, &c.
3. To free from obligation or penalty; as, to release one from debt, from a promise or covenant.
4. To quit; to let go, as a legal claim; as, to release a debt or forfeiture. Deu 15.
5. To discharge or relinquish a right to lands or tenements, by conveying it to another that has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; when one co-parcener releases his right to the other; or the mortgagee releases his claim to the mortgager.
6. To relax. [Not in use.]
RELE'ASE, n.
1. Liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
2. Liberation from care, pain or any burden.
3. Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty or claim of any kind; acquittance.
4. In law, a release or deed of release is a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim. The efficient words in such an instrument are, "remised, released, and forever quitclaimed."