Trespass - TRES'PASS, v.i. [L. trans, beyond, and passer, to pass.] 1. Literally, to pass beyond; hence primarily, to pass over the boundary line of another's land; to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. A man may trespass by walking over the ground of another, and the law gives a remedy for damages sustained. 2. To commit any offense or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude to the injury of another. If any man shall trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him-- 1 Ki 8. See Luke 17:3. and 4. 3. In a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty. In the time of his disease did he trespass yet more. 2 Chr 28. We have trespassed against our God. Ezra 10. 4. To intrude; to go too far; to put to inconvenience by demand or importunity; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another. TRES'PASS, n. In law, violation of another's rights, not amounting to treason, felony, or misprision of either. Thus to enter another's close, is a trespass; to attack his person is a trespass. When violence accompanies the act, it is called a trespass vi et armis. 1. Any injury or offense done to another. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Mat 6. 2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. Col 2. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Eph 2.
Tribulation - TRIBULA'TION, n. [L. tribulo, to thrash, to beat.] Severe affliction; distresses of life; vexations. In Scripture, it often denotes the troubles and distresses which proceed from persecution. When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, he is offended. Mat 13. In the world ye shall have tribulation. John 16.
Trust - TRUST, n. 1. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person. He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Prov 29. 2. He or that which is the ground of confidence. O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. Psa 71. 3. Charge received in confidence. Reward them well, if they observe their trust. 4. That which is committed to one's care. Never violate a sacred trust. 5. Confident opinion of any event. His trust was with th' Eternal to be deem'd Equal in strength. 6. Credit given without examination; as, to take opinions on trust. 7. Credit on promise of payment, actual or implied; as, to take or purchase goods on trust. 8. Something committed to a person's care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Every man's talents and advantages are a trust committed to him by his Maker, and for the use or employment of which he is accountable. 9. Confidence; special reliance on supposed honesty. 10. State of him to whom something is entrusted. I serve him truly, that will put me in trust. 11. Care; management. 1 Tim 6. 12. In law, an estate, devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will of another; an estate held for the use of another. TRUST, v.t. To place confidence in; to rely on. We cannot trust those who have deceived us. He that trusts every one without reserve, will at last be deceived. 1. To believe; to credit. Trust me, you look well. 2. To commit to the care of, in confidence. Trust your Maker with yourself and all your concerns. 3. To venture confidently. Fool'd by thee, to trust thee from my side. 4. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. The merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods to the value of millions. It is happier to be sometimes cheated, than not to trust. TRUST, v.i. To be confident of something present or future. I trust to come to you, and speak face to face. 2 John 12. We trust we have a good conscience. Heb 13. 1. To be credulous; to be won to confidence. Well, you may fear too far-- Safer than trust too far. To trust in, to confide in; to place confidence in; to rely on; a use frequent in the Scriptures. Trust in the Lord, and do good. Psa 37. They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images. Isa 42. To trust to, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on. The men of Israel--trusted to the liars in wait. Judg 20.
Truth - TRUTH, n. 1. Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value. We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies. My mouth shall speak truth. Prov 8. Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. John 17. 2. True state of facts or things. The duty of a court of justice is to discover the truth. Witnesses are sworn to declare the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 3. Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth. Shall truth fail to keep her word? 4. Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth. 5. Correct opinion. 6. Fidelity; constancy. The thoughts of past pleasure and truth. 7. Honesty; virtue. It must appear That malice bears down truth. 8. Exactness; conformity to rule. Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the iron work. [Not in use.] 9. Real fact of just principle; real state of things. There are innumerable truths with which we are not acquainted. 10. Sincerity. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. John 4. 11. The truth of God, is his veracity and faithfulness. Psa 71. Or his revealed will. I have walked in thy truth. Psa 26. 12. Jesus Christ is called the truth. John 14. 13. It is sometimes used by way of concession. She said, truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crums-- Mat 15. That is, it is a truth; what you have said, I admit to be true. In truth, in reality; in fact. Of a truth, in reality; certainly. To do truth, is to practice what God commands. John 3.
Tung - TUNG, n. [Ant.L. tingua; digitus and dug. Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung.] 1. In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech; and in other animals, the instrument of taste. It is also an instrument of deglutition. In some animals, the tongue is used for drawing the food into the mouth, as in animals of the bovine genus, &c. Other animals lap their drink, as dogs. The tongue is covered with membranes, and the outer one is full of papillae of a pyramidical figure, under which lies a thin, soft, reticular coat perforated with innumerable holes, and always lined with a thick and white or yellowish mucus. 2. Speech; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. 3. The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. 4. Speech, as well or ill used; mode of speaking. Keep a good tongue in thy head. The tongue of the wise is health. Prov 12. 5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation. The English tongue, within two hundred years, will probably be spoken by two or three hundred millions of people in North America. 6. Speech; words or declarations only; opposed to thoughts or actions. Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3. 7. A nation, as distinguished by their language. I will gather all nations and tongues. Isa 66. 8. A point; a projection; as the tongue of a buckle or of a balance. 9. A point or long narrow strip of land, projecting from the main into a sea or a lake. 10. The taper part of any thing; in the rigging of a ship, a short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, &c. to the size of the mast-head. To hold the tongue, to be silent. TONGUE TUNG, v.t. To chide; to scold. How might she tongue me. TONGUE TUNG, v.i. To talk; to prate.
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