Definition of covenant

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Covenant (n.) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement..

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Promise :: Promise (v. t.) To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money..
Contrahent :: Contrahent (a.) Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties..
Undertake :: Undertake (v. t.) Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly or expressly; to lay one's self under obligation, or to enter into stipulations, to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract..
Covenant :: Covenant (n.) A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc..
Compact :: Compact (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
Undertaker :: Undertaker (n.) One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.
Covenanted :: Covenanted (imp. & p. p.) of Covenan.
Subscribe :: Subscribe (v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond..
Stipule :: Stipulator (n.) One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants..
Covenantor :: Covenantor (n.) The party who makes a covenant.
Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.
Ark :: Ark (n.) The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant..
Covenanting :: Covenanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Covenan.
Concordat :: Concordat (n.) A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything..
Conventionist :: Conventionist (n.) One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract..
Covenant :: Covenant (v. t.) To grant or promise by covenant.
Contract :: Contract (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for..
Contractor :: Contractor (n.) One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad..
Violation :: Violation (n.) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc..
Testament :: Testament (n.) One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter..
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