Foe - FOE, n. fo. [See Fiend.]
1. An enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge or malice against another.
A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Mat 10.
2. An enemy in war; one of a nation at war with another, whether he entertains enmity against the opposing nation or not; an adversary.
Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before they foes. 1 Chr 21.
3. Foe, like enemy, in the singular, is used to denote an opposing army, or nation at war.
4. An opponent; an enemy; one who opposes any thing in principle; an ill-wisher; as a foe to religion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures of the administration.
FOE, v.t. To treat as an enemy. Obs.
Forget - FORGET', v.t. pret. forgot. [forgat, obs.]
1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Psa 103.
2. To slight; to neglect.
Can a woman forget her sucking child? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Isa 49.
Forgive - FORGIVE, v.t. forgiv'. pret. forgave; pp. forgiven. [L. remitto. See Give.]
1. To pardon; to remit, as an offense or debt; to overlook an offense, and treat the offender as not guilty. The original and proper phrase is to forgive the offense, to send it away, to reject it, that is, not to impute it, [put it to] the offender.
But by an easy transition, we also use the phrase, to forgive the person offending.
Forgive us our debts.
If we forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. Mat 6.
As savages never forget a favor, so they never forgive an injury.
It is to be noted that pardon, like forgive, may be followed by the name or person, and by the offense; but remit can be followed by the offense only. We forgive or pardon the man, but we do not remit him.
2. To remit as a debt, fine or penalty.
Form - FORM, n. [L. forma.]
1. The shape or external appearance of a body; the figure, as defined by lines and angles; that manner of being peculiar to each body, which exhibits it to the eye as distinct from every other body. Thus we speak of the form of a circle, the form of a square or triangle, a circular form, the form of the head or of the human body, a handsome form, an ugly form, a frightful form.
Matter is the basis or substratum of bodies, form is the particular disposition of matter in each body which distinguishes its appearance from that of every other body.
The form of his visage was changed. Dan 3.
After that he appeared in another form to two of them, as they walked. Mark 16.
2. Manner of arranging particulars; disposition of particular things; as a form of words or expressions.
3. Model; draught; pattern.
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me. 2 Tim 1.
4. Beauty; elegance; splendor; dignity.
He hath no form nor comeliness. Isa 53.
5. Regularity; method; order. This is a rough draught to be reduced to form.
6. External appearance without the essential qualities; empty show.
7. Stated method; established practice; ritual or prescribed mode; as the forms of public worship; the forms of judicial proceeding; forms of civility.
8. Ceremony; as, it is a mere matter of form.
9. Determinate shape.
The earth was without form, and void. Gen 1.
10. Likeness; image.
Who, being in the form of God - Phil 2.
He took on him the form of a servant.
11. Manner; system; as a form of government; a monarchical or republican form.
12. Manner of arrangement; disposition of component parts; as the interior form or structure of the flesh or bones, or of other bodies.
13. A long seat; a bench without a back.
14. In schools, a class; a rank of students.
15. The seat or bed of a hare.
16. A mold; something to give shape, or on which things are fashioned.
17. In printing, an assemblage of types, composed and arranged in order, disposed into pages or columns, and inclosed and locked in a chase, to receive an impression.
18. Essential form, is that mode of existence which constitutes a thing what it is, and without which it could not exist. Thus water and light have each its particular form of existence, and the parts of water being decomposed, it ceases to be water. Accidental form is not necessary to the existence of a body. Earth is earth still, whatever may be its color.
FORM, v.t. [L. formo.]
1. To make or cause to exist.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
Gen 2.
2. To shape; to mold or fashion into a particular shape or state; as, to form an image of stone or clay.
3. To plan; to scheme; to modify.
4. To arrange; to combine in a particular manner; as, to form a line or square of troops.
5. To adjust; to settle.
Our differences with the Romanists are thus formed into an interest -
6. To contrive; to invent; as, to form a design or scheme.
7. To make; up; to frame; to settle by deductions of reason; as, to form an opinion or judgment; to form an estimate.
8. To mold; to model by instruction and discipline; as, to form the mind to virtuous habits by education.
9. To combine; to unite individuals into a collective body; as, to form a society for missions.
10. To make; to establish. The subscribers are formed by law into a corporation. They have formed regulations for their government.
11. To compile; as, to form a body of laws or customs; to form a digest.
12. To constitute; to make. Duplicity forms no part of his character. These facts form a safe foundation for our conclusions.
The senate and house of representatives form the legislative body.
13. In grammar, to make by derivation, or by affixes or prefixes. L. do, in the preterit, forms dedi.
14. To enact; to make; to ordain; as, to form a law or an edict.
FORM, v.i. To take a form.
Fornication - FORNICA'TION, n. [L. fornication.]
1. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
2. Adultery. Mat 5.
3. Incest. 1 Cor 5.
4. Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols. 2 Chr 21. Rev 19.