Purpose - PUR'POSE, n. [L. propositum, propono; pro, before,and pono, to set or place.]
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure or exertion. We believe the Supreme Being created intelligent beings for some benevolent and glorious purpose, and if so, how glorious and benevolent must be his purpose in the plan of redemption! The ambition of men is generally directed to one of two purposes, or to both; the acquisition of wealth or of power. We build houses for the purpose of shelter; we labor for the purpose of subsistence.
2. Intention; design. This sense, however, is hardly to be distinguished from the former; as purpose always includes the end in view.
Every purpose is established by counsel. Prov 20.
Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Eph 1.
3. End; effect; consequence, good or bad. What good purpose will this answer? We sometimes labor to no purpose. Men often employ their time, talents and money for very evil purposes.
To what purpose is this waste? Mat 26.
4. Instance; example. [Not in use.]
5. Conversation. [Not in use.]
Of purpose, on purpose, with previous design; with the mind directed to that object. On purpose is more generally used, but the true phrase is of purpose.
PUR'POSE, v.t. To intend; to design; to resolve; to determine on some end or object to be accomplished.
I have purposed it,I will also do it. Isa 46. Eph 3.
Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem. Acts 19.
Quick - QUICK, v.i.
To stir; to move. [Not in use.]
QUICK, a. [If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the L. vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.]
1. Primarily, alive; living; opposed to dead or unanimated; as quick flesh. Lev 13.
The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead. 2 Tim 4.
[In this sense, the word is obsolete, except in some compounds or in particular phrases.]
2. Swift; hasty; done with celerity; as quick dispatch.
3. Speedy; done or occurring in a short time; as a quick return of profits.
Oft he to her his charge of quick return repeated.
4. Active; brisk; nimble; prompt ready. He is remarkably quick in his motions. He is a man of quick parts.
5. Moving with rapidity or celerity; as quick time in music.
Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.
QUICK, adv.
1. Nimbly; with celerity; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; be quick.
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
2. Soon; in a short time; without delay. Go, and return quick.
QUICK, n.
1. A living animal. Obs.
2. The living flesh; sensible parts; as penetrating to the quick; stung to the quick; cut to the quick.
3. Living shrubs or trees; as a ditch or bank set with quick.
QUICK, v.t. To revive; to make alive. Obs.
QUICK, v.i. To become alive. Obs.
Raca - R'ACA, n. A Syriac word signifying empty, beggarly, foolish; a term of extreme contempt. Mat 5.
Rage - RAGE, n. [Heb. to grind or gnash the teeth.]
1. Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury. Passion sometimes rises to rage.
Torment and loud lament and furious rage.
2. Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst.
3. Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest.
4. Enthusiasm; rapture.
Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made that art which was a rage.
5. Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.
RAGE, v.i.
1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
At this he inly rag'd.
2. To be violent and tumultuous.
Why do the heathen rage? Psa 2.
3. To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds.
4. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo.
5. To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously.
The chariots shall rage in the streets. Nahum 2.
The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag'd.
6. To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.]
Raise - RAISE, v.t. raze. [This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels, Luke 3:8. John 6:40, 44. These verbs appear to be the L. gradior, gressus, without the prefix. L. to go to walk, to pass.]
1. To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to raise a stone or weight; to raise the body in bed.
The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up.
Acts 12.
2. To set upright; as, to raise a mast.
3. To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to raise the frame of a house.
4. To build; as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall, &c.
I will raise forts against thee. Isa 29. amos 9.
5. To rebuild.
They shall raise up the former desolations. Isa 61.
6. To form to some height by accumulation; as, to raise a heap of stones. Josh 8.
7. To make; to produce; to amass; as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.
8. To enlarge; to amplify.
9. To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to raise one from a low estate.
10. To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to raise one to an office of distinction.
This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.
11. To enhance; to increase; as, to raise the value of coin; to raise the price of goods.
12. To increase in current value.
the plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.
13. To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to raise a tempest or tumult.
He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind. Psa 107.
14. To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up. Acts 14.
AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.
15. To rouse; to awake; to stir up.
They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep. Job 14.
16. To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness. The pulse is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.
17. To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to raise a family.
18. To bring into being.
God vouchsafes to raise another word for him.
19. To bring from a state of death to life.
He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Rom 4. 1 Cor 15.
20. To call into view from the state of separate spirits; as, to raise a spirit by spells and incantations.
21. To invent and propagate; to originate; to occasion; as, to raise a report or story.
22. To set up; to excite; to begin by loud utterance; as, to raise a shout or cry.
23. To utter loudly; to begin to sound or clamor. He raised his voice against the measures of administration.
24. To utter with more strength or elevation; to swell. Let the speaker raise his voice.
25. To collect; to obtain; to bring into a sum or fund. Government raises money by taxes, excise and imposts. Private persons and companies raise money for their enterprises.
26. To levy; to collect; to bring into service; as, to raise troops; to raise an army.
27. To give rise to.
28. To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, &c.; to raise horses, oxen or sheep.
[The English now use grow in regard to crops; as, to grow wheat. This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently some persons have adopted it from the English books. We always use raise, but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the southern states.]
29. To cause to swell, heave and become light; as, to raise dough or paste by yeast or leaven.
Miss Liddy can dance a jig and raise paste.
30. To excite; to animate with fresh vigor; as, to raise the spirits or courage.
31. To ordain; to appoint; or to call to and prepare; to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose; a Scriptural sense.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren. Deu 18.
For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power. Exo 9. Judg 2.
32. To keep in remembrance. Ruth 4.
33. To cause to exist by propagation. Mat 22.
34. To incite; to prompt. Ezra 1.
35. To increase in intensity or strength; as, to raise the heat of a furnace.
36. In seamen's language, to elevate, as an object by a gradual approach to it; to bring to be seen at a greater angle; opposed to laying; as, to raise the land; to raise a point.
To raise a purchase, in seamen's language, is to dispose instruments or machines in such a manner as to exert any mechanical force required.
To raise a siege, is to remove a besieging army and relinquish an attempt to take the place by that mode of attack, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.