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Choice
·noun A sufficient number to choose among. II. Choice ·noun The best part; that which is preferable...

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Spirit
·noun Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, ·etc. II. Spirit ·noun Stannic chloride. ·see u...

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Spirit
(Heb. ruah; Gr. pneuma), properly wind or breath. In 2 Thess. 2:8 it means "breath," and in Eccl. 8:...

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Hobson's choice
·- A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. ...

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hobson's choice
That or none; from old Hobson, a famous carrier of Cambridge, who used to let horses to the students...

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hobson's choice
An expression often used, denoting that kind of choice in which there is no alternative. The caprice...

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Shad-spirit
·noun ·see Shadbird (a). ...

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Familiar spirit
Sorcerers or necormancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions, were said to have ...

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Spirit, Holy
See HOLY [607]GHOST. ...

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to spirit away
To kidnap, or inveigle away. ...

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spirit-room
A place or compartment abaft the after-hold, to contain the ship's company's spirits. ...

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Intercession of the Spirit
(Rom. 8:26, 27; John 14:26). "Christ is a royal Priest (Zech. 6:13). From the same throne, as King, ...

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Witness of the Spirit
(Rom. 8:16), the consciousness of the gracious operation of the Spirit on the mind, "a certitude of ...

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