Kindle - KIN'DLE, v.t. [L. accendo; from the root of candeo, caneo, to be light or white, to shine.]
1. To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to light; as, to kindle a fire.
2. To inflame, as the passions; to exasperate; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle resentment; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.
So is a contentious woman to kindle strife. Prov 26.
3. To bring forth.
KIN'DLE, v.i. To take fire; to begin to burn with flame. Fuel and fire well laid, will kindle without a bellows.
1. To begin to rage, or be violently excited; to be roused or exasperated.
It shall kindle in the thickets of the forest. Isa 9.
King - KING, n.
1. The chief or sovereign of a nation; a man invested with supreme authority over a nation,
tribe or country; a monarch. Kings are absolute monarchs, when they possess the powers of
government without control, or the entire sovereignty over a nation; they are limited
monarchs, when their power is restrained by fixed laws; and they are absolute, when they
possess the whole legislative, judicial, and executive power, or when the legislative or judicial
powers, or both, are vested in other bodies of men. Kings are hereditary sovereigns, when they
hold the powers of government by right of birth or inheritance, and elective, when raised to the
throne by choice.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
2. A sovereign; a prince; a ruler. Christ is called the king of his church. Psa 2
3. A card having the picture of a king; as the king of diamonds.
4. The chief piece in the game of chess.
King at arms, an officer in England of great antiquity, and formerly of great authority, whose
business is to direct the heralds, preside at their chapters, and have the jurisdiction of armory.
There are three kings at arms, vix.garter, clarencieux, and norroy. The latter [northroy]
officiates north of the Trent.
KING, v.t. In ludicrous language, to supply with a king, or to make royal; to raise to royalty.
Kingdom - KING'DOM, n. [king and dom, jurisdiction.]
1. The territory or country subject to a king; an undivided territory under the dominion of a king or monarch. The foreign possessions of a king are not usually included in the term kingdom. Thus we speak of the kingdom of England, of France or of Spain, without including the East or West Indies.
2. The inhabitants or population subject to a king. The whole kingdom was alarmed.
3. In natural history, a division; as the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
4. A region; a tract; the place where any thing prevails and holds sway; as the watery kingdom.
5. In Scripture, the government or universal dominion of God. 1 Chr 29. Psa 145.
6. The power of supreme administration. 1 Sam 18.
7. A princely nation or state.
Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests. Exo 19.
8. Heaven. Mat 26.
9. State of glory in heaven. Mat 5.
10. The reign of the Messiah. Mat 3.
11. Government; rule; supreme administration.