单词 | discovenant |
释义 | discovenantv. transitive. Chiefly in religious contexts: to break a covenant with; to exclude from a covenant. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [verb (transitive)] > exclude from covenant with discovenant1643 1643 R. Mather Apol. Churches New-Eng. 17 The Ishmaelites and Edomites descending from Abraham, were discovenanted by not promising nor performing those duties of Faith and obedience. 1668 J. Flavell Saint Indeed 49 If he had..discovenanted my Soul, I had reason to be cast down. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi v. iii. i. 71/2 They were once in Covenant, and never since Discovenanted. 1772 J. Cotton Gen. Pract. Churches New-Eng. Baptism iii. 32 Let them be rendered uncapable of any privilege or discovenanted until it is otherwise with them. 1888 E. P. Humphrey Sacred Hist. xix. 277 In punishment of that crime, God had rejected them..they were discovenanted. 1940 H. B. Colquhoun Our Descent from Israel proved by Cumulative Evid. (ed. 2) xxix. 180 When the Northern Kingdom was taken captive by the Assyrians it was discovenanted by God from the Sinaitic Covenant. 1984 William & Mary Q. 41 28 Such rigorists were willing to discovenant even the ‘Pharisees’ of their own loins, who held only the credentials of the old birth. Derivatives disˈcovenanted adj. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > [adjective] > of an agreement > that has been excluded from discovenanted1861 1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 97 No more..rebuild The rainbow of discovenanted Hope. 1986 H. S. Stout New Eng. Soul ii. vi. 109 Was there a single common sin that previous discovenanted peoples had shared? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1643 |
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