Elect - ELECT', v.t. [L. electus, from eligo; e or ex and lego; Gr. to choose.]
1. Properly, to pick out; to select from among two or more, that which is preferred. Hence,
2. To select or take for an office or employment; to choose from among a number; to select or manifest preference by vote or designation; as, to elect a representative by ballot or viva voce; to elect a president or governor.
3. In theology, to designate, choose or select as an object of mercy or favor.
4. To choose; to prefer; to determine in favor of.
ELECT', a. Chosen, taken by preference from among two or more. Hence,
1. In theology, chosen as the object of mercy; chosen, selected or designated to eternal life; predestinated in the divine counsels.
2. Chosen, but no inaugurated, consecrated or invested with office; as bishop elect; emperor elect; governor or mayor elect.
But in the scriptures, and in theology, this word is generally used as a noun.
ELECT', n. One chosen or set apart; applied to Christ.
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. Isa 42.
1. Chosen or designated by God to salvation; predestinated to glory as the end, and to sanctification as the means; usually
with a plural signification, the elect.
Shall not God avenge his own elect? Luke 18.
If it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Mat 24.
He shall send his angels--and they shall gather his elect from the four winds. Mat 24.
2. Chosen; selected; set apart as a peculiar church and people; applied to the Israelites. Isa 45.
Empty - EMP'TY, a.
1. Containing nothing, or nothing but air; as an empty chest; empty space; an empty purse is a serious evil.
2. Evacuated; not filled; as empty shackles.
3. Unfurnished; as an empty room.
4. Void; devoid.
In civility thou seemest so empty.
5. Void; destitute of solid matter; as empty air.
6. Destitute of force or effect; as empty words.
7. Unsubstantial; unsatisfactory; not able to fill the mind or the desires. The pleasures of life are empty and unsatisfying.
Pleased with empty praise.
8. Not supplied; having nothing to carry.
They beat him, and sent him away empty. Mark 12.
9. Hungry.
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty.
10. Unfurnished with intellect or knowledge; vacant of head; ignorant; as an empty coxcomb.
11. Unfruitful; producing nothing.
Israel is an empty vine. Hosca 10.
Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind. Gen 41.
12. Wanting substance; wanting solidity; as empty dreams.
13. Destitute; waste;desolate.
Nineveh is empty. Nahum 2.
14. Without effect.
The sword of Saul returned not empty. 2 Sam 1.
15. Without a cargo; in ballast; as, the ship returned empty.
EMP'TY, v.t. To exhaust; to make void or destitute; to deprive of the contents; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
1. To pour out the contents.
The clouds empty themselves on the earth. Eccl 11.
Rivers empty themselves into the ocean.
2. To waste; to make desolate. Jer 51.
EMP'TY, v.i. To pour out or discharge its contents.
The Connecticut empties into the Sound.
1. To become empty.
End - END, n.
1. The extreme point of a line, or of anything that has more length than breadth; as the end of a house; the end of a table; the end of a finger; the end of a chain or rope. When bodies or figures have equal dimensions, or equal length and breadth, the extremities are called sides.
2. The extremity or last part, in general; the close or conclusion, applied to time.
At the end of two months, she returned. Judg 11.
3. The conclusion or cessation of an action.
Of the increase of his government there shall be no end. Isa 9.
4. The close or conclusion; as the end of a chapter.
5. Ultimate state or condition; final doom.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace. Psa 37.
6. The point beyond which no progression can be made.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Psa 107.
7. Final determination; conclusion of debate or deliberation.
My guilt be on my head and there's an end!
8. Close of life; death; decease.
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
9. Cessation; period; close of a particular state of things; as the end of the world.
10. Limit; termination.
There is no end of the store. Hahum 2.
11. Destruction. Amos 8.
The end of all flesh is come. Gen 6.
12. Cause of death; a destroyer.
And award
Either of you to be the other's end.
13. Consequence; issue; result; conclusive event; conclusion.
The end of these things is death. Rom 6.
14. A fragment or broken piece.
Old odd ends.
15. The ultimate point or thing at which one aims or directs his views; the object intended to be reached or accomplished by any action or scheme; purpose intended; scope; aim; drift; as private ends; public ends.
Two things I shall propound to you, as ends.
The end of the commandments is charity. l Tim.1.
A right to the end, implies a right to the means necessary for attaining it.
16. An end, for on end, upright; erect; as, his hair stands an end.
17. The ends of the earth, in scripture, are the remotest parts of the earth, or the inhabitants of those parts.
END, v.t. To finish; to close; to conclude; to terminate; as, to end a controversy; to end a war.
On the seventh day God ended his work. Gen 2.
1. To destroy; to put to death.
King Harry, thy sword hath ended him.
END, v.i. To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; as, a voyage ends by the return of a ship.
1. To terminate; to close; to conclude. The discourse ends with impressive words.
2. To cease; to come to a close. Winter ends in March, and summer in September. A good like ends in peace.
END'-ALL, n. Final close. [Not used.]
Enemy - EN'EMY, n. [L. inimicus.]
1. A foe; an adversary. A private enemy is one who hates another and wishes him injury, or attempts to do him injury to gratify his own malice or ill will. A public enemy or foe, is one who belongs to a nation or party, at war with another.
I way to you, love your enemies. Mat 5.
Enemies in war; in peace friends.
2. One who hates or dislikes; as an enemy to truth or falsehood.
3. In theology, and by way of eminence, the enemy is the Devil; the archfiend.
4. In military affairs, the opposing army or naval force in war, is called the enemy.
Ensign - EN'SIGN, n. en'sine. [L. insigne, insignia, from signum, a mark impressed, a sign.]
1. The flag or banner of a military band; a banner of colors; a standard; a figured cloth or piece of silk, attached to a staff, and usually with figures, colors or arms thereon, borne by an officer at the head of a company, troop or other band.
2. Any signal to assemble or to give notice.
He will lift up an ensign to the nations. Isa 5.
Ye shall be left as an ensign on a hill. Isa 30.
3. A badge; a mark of distinction, rank or office; as ensigns of power or virtue.
4. The officer who carries the flag or colors, being the lowest commissioned officer in a company of infantry.
5. Naval ensign, is a large banner hoisted on a staff and carried over the poop or stern of a ship; used to distinguish ships of different nations, or to characterize different equadrons of the same navy.