Identification - IDENTIFICA'TION, n. The act of making or proving to be the same.
Identify - IDEN'TIFY, v.t. [L. idem, the same, and facio, to make.]
1. To ascertain or prove to be the same. The owner of the goods found them in the possession
of the thief, and identified them.
2. To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one interest,
purpose or intention; to treat as having the same use; to consider as the same in effect.
Paul has identified the two ordinances, circumcision and baptism, and thus, by demonstrating
that they have one and the same use and meaning, he has exhibited to our view the very same
seal of God's covenant.
That treaty in fact identified Spain with the republican government of France, by a virtual
acknowledgment of unqualified vassalage, and by specific stipulations of unconditional defense.
Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people, and of the rules.
IDEN'TIFY, v.i. To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose,
use, effect, _c.
‐‐An enlightened self‐interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will identify with an
interest more enlarged and public.
Idle - I'DLE, a.
1. Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing.
Why stand ye here all the day idle? Mat 20.
To be idle, is to be vicious.
2. Slothful; given to rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; as an idle man; an idle fellow.
3. Affording leisure; vacant; not occupied; as idle time; idle hours.
4. Remaining unused; unemployed; applied to things; as, my sword or spear is idle.
5. Useless; vain; ineffectual; as idle rage.
6. Unfruitful; barren; not productive of good.
Of antres vast and idle desarts.
Idle weeds.
7. Trifling; vain; of no importance; as an idle story; an idle reason; idle arguments.
8. Unprofitable; not tending to edification.
Every idle word that men shall speak,they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment. Mat 12.
Idle differs from lazy; the latter implying constitutional or habitual aversion or indisposition to labor or action, sluggishness; whereas idle, in its proper sense, denotes merely unemployed. An industrious man may be idle, but he cannot be lazy.
I'DLE, v.i. To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
To idle away, in a transitive sense, to spend in idleness; as, to idle away time.
If - IF, v.t. It is used as the sign of a condition, or it introduces a conditional sentence. It is a verb, without a specified nominative. In like manner we use grant, admit, suppose. Regularly, if should be followed, as it was formerly, by the substitute or pronoun that, referring to the succeeding sentence or proposition. If that John shall arrive in season, I will send him with a message. But that is now omitted, and the subsequent sentence, proposition or affirmation may be considered as the object of the verb. Give John shall arrive; grant, suppose, admit that he shall arrive, I will send him with a message. The sense of if, or give, in this use, is grant, admit, cause to be, let the fact be, let the thing take place. If then is equivalent to grant, allow, admit. "If thou wilt, thou canst make me whole," that is, thou canst make me whole, give the fact, that thou wilt.
If thou art the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Mat 14.
1. Whether or not.
Uncertain if by augury or chance.
Image - IM'AGE, n. [L. imago.]
1. A representation or similitude of any person or thing, formed of a material substance; as an image wrought out of stone, wood or wax.
Whose is this image and superscription? Mat 22.
2. A statue.
3. An idol; the representation of any person or thing, that is an object of worship. The second commandment forbids the worship of images.
4. The likeness of any thing on canvas; a picture; a resemblance painted.
5. Any copy, representation or likeness.
The child is the image of its mother.
6. Semblance; show; appearance.
The face of things a frightful image bears.
7. An idea; a representation of any thing to the mind; a conception; a picture drawn by fancy.
Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft or great?
8. In rhetoric, a lively description of any thing in discourse, which presents a kind of picture to the mind.
9. In optics, the figure of any object, made by rays of light proceeding from the several points of it. Thus a mirror reflects the image of a person standing before it, as does water in a vessel or stream, when undisturbed.
IM'AGE, v.t. To imagine; to copy by the imagination; to form a likeness in the mind by the fancy or recollection.
And image charms he must behold no more.