Noah Webster’s original definition” Encourage : v.t. [imp & p.p. ENCOURAGED ; p. pr. & vb. n. ENCOURAGING.] [Fr. encourager, from prefix en and courage from coeur, Lat. cor, heart ; Pr. encoratjar, It. incorraggiare.] To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to animate; to incite; to help forward; to countenance. … Continue reading
Free: a. 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one’s own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one’s own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. … Continue reading
Noah Webster’s Definition : Potential, a. [It potenziale, Sp & Pr. potencial, Fr. potentiel. See potency.] 1. Being potent; having latent power; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious. [Obs.] A voice potential, as double as the duke’s Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in … Continue reading
PERSEVERE v.i. [imp. & p.p. persevered; p. pr & vb. n.persevering.] [Lat. perseverare, persevreratum, from perseverus, very strict, from prefix per, thoroughly, very and severus, strict, severe; It . perseverare, Sp., Pg., & Pr. perseverar, Fr. perseverer.] To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to maintain a purpose against counter motives or influences ; … Continue reading
BLESS: v. t. to bless, to consecrate, to rejoice, to make to rejoice, bliss, joy, blithe, merry. 1. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon. Happy the isle with such a hero blest. Waller. Bless to both nations this auspicious hour. Dryden. 2. To pronounce a wish of … Continue reading
Noah Webster’s Definition Deceive v. t. [imp & p.p. DECEIVED; p. pr. & vb. n. DECEIVING.] [ O. FR. decever, deceveir, now decevoir, from Lat decipere, to catch, to ensnare, to deceive, from de and capere, to take, catch.] 1. To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is … Continue reading
Noah Webster’s Original Definition Pursue v.t. Pursuing 1. To follow with a view to overtake; To follow with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare; to pursue an enemy. “ We happiness pursue; we fly from pain.” Prior. 2. To seek; to use measures to obtain; as to pursue a remedy at … Continue reading
WIN : v. t. 1. To gain by success in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a game; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country. “Who thus shall Canaan win.” Milton. Thy well-breathed horse Impels the … Continue reading
PASSION n. 1. A suffering or enduring; endurance of action on the part of something else. “A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.” … Continue reading
HAPPINESS, n. [ From happy ] 1. An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended with enjoyment; the state of being happy; felicity; blessedness; bliss; joyful satisfaction. 2. Good luck; good fortune. … Continue reading
