Definition of covenant

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Covenant (v. t.) To grant or promise by covenant.

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Warranter :: Warranter (n.) One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse..
Sacrament :: Sacrament (n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
Covenant :: Covenant (v. i.) To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.
Trucebreaker :: Trucebreaker (n.) One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement..
Reestablish :: Reestablish (v. t.) To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health..
Valid :: Valid (a.) Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage..
Warranty :: Warranty (n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant..
Covenant :: Covenant (n.) A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement..
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..
Assure :: Assure (v. t.) To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure..
Concordat :: Concordat (n.) A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything..
Compact :: Compact (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
Jehovah :: "Jehovah (n.) A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the ""ineffable name"" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews..
Quitclaim :: Quitclaim (n.) A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself..
Covenantor :: Covenantor (n.) The party who makes a covenant.
Recite :: Recite (v. t.) To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant..
Covenanting :: Covenanting (a.) Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters..
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..
Sanctuary :: Sanctuary (n.) The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem..
Cameronian :: Cameronian (n.) A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II..
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