84 Verbs to Use for the Word attributes

Besides," he saysand to this sound reductio ad absurdum I call the attention of all who believe their Bibles"unless I believe God to possess the same moral attributes which I find, in however inferior a degree, in a good man, what ground of assurance have I of God's veracity?

This is a discouraging comment on the frantic efforts now making by women to assume man's attributes, (not to mention his other "butes" and the what-d'ye-call-'ems generally associated with them,) and it is a very significant fact that the comment can be tersely clinched by the words So rows

While Mr. Tylor asserts "that no savage tribe of monotheists has ever been known," but that all ascribe the attributes of deity to other beings than the Almighty Creator, it appears in fact that many of the rudest savages "are as monotheistic as some Christians.

Neuter, or those which express an attribute that consists neither in action nor passion: as, Cæsar stood.

Arnauld de l'Ariége, young, handsome, eloquent, enthusiastic, gentle, and firm, combined the attributes of the Tribune with the faith of the knight.

However, the setting is not to be taken literally, for of course neither he nor anyone else actually believed that prenatal spirits bore the attributes and garments of their future existence.

And now he is directly called by the voice of God himself, amid the wonders of the burning bush,Him whom, thus far, he had, like Abraham, adored as the Elohim, the God Almighty, but whom henceforth he recognizes as Jehovah (Jahveh) in His special relations to the Jewish nation, rather than as the general Deity who unites the attributes ascribed to Him as the ruler of the universe.

Its institution was peculiar and unique; a great spiritual government usurping the attributes of other governments, as predicted by Daniel, and, at first benignant, ripening into a gloomy tyranny,a tyranny so unscrupulous and grasping as to become finally, in the eyes of Luther, an evil power.

And in our own country, such abuses have grown so rank, as to lead a distinguished eye-witnessno less a philosopher and statesman than Thomas Jeffersonto say, that they had armed against us every attribute of the Almighty.

Tom was "boss" of a logging-camp, and none had ever denied his Cæsarean attributes.

In Denis Laurie, the gentle essayist and recluse, one might expect to find some feminine attributes; but even the bolder and badder lots, whose task it is to supply the melodramatic relief, struck me as oddly unvirile.

Yet that lovely breast had heaved not so many times since I looked upon her as a deified mortal, and now two small spots on another woman's pulseless throat had drawn a veil of blood over that beauty, and given to a child the attributes of a Medusa.

I do not speak this reproachfully, but as a fact which develops a curious attribute of the human mind.

If mortals could arrogate to themselves the attributes of the Deity, if they could direct the course of events, and controul the chances of war, such conduct would be justifiable; but on no other principle, I think, can its defence be undertaken.

"He is the exhaustless fountain, from which emanates all these attributes, that exists throughout this wide creation.

The more reality a substance contains, the more attributes it has; consequently infinite substance possesses an infinite number, each of which gives expression to its essence, but of which two only fall within our knowledge.

McNair knew these attributes of the Indian Government, and never troubled his head about preferment or official promotion.

Every one may remember the charming attributes given by Miss Kavanagh, in her delicious tale, 'Nathalie,' to the French women of the South.

The remedy we must look forthe only one which can meet the exigencies of the casemust be one which will restore to the South the attributes of a democracy.

She saw perfectly the new attribute, and realized perfectly what a resolute stiffening of the will it signified.

Like all rude and ignorant people, the New Zealanders seem more to fear the wrath of their God than to love his attributes; and constant sacrifices (too often human ones) are offered up to appease his anger.

Mnemonics should not only mean the art of keeping something indirectly in the memory by the use of some direct pun or witticism; it should, rather, be applied to a systematic theory of memory, and explain its several attributes by reference both to its real nature, and to the relation in which these attributes stand to one another.

I say, I talk with trees for this reason,because their wisdom is so much greater than that of my ordinary acquaintances,and further, (to put the major after the minor premise,) because they are virtually living beings, endowed with instinct, feeling, reason, and display every essential attribute of sentient creatures,in fact, because they have souls as well as men, only they are clothed in vegetable flesh.

Tityrus and Mopsus are alternately lovers, courtiers and spiritual pastors; Pan, when he does not conceal under his shaggy outside the costly robes of a prince, is a strange abortive monster, drawing his attributes in part from pagan superstition, in part from Christian piety; a libel upon both.

Thor embodied more Teutonic attributes than Odin.

84 Verbs to Use for the Word  attributes