Definition of covenant

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Covenant (n.) A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc..

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Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.
Covenantor :: Covenantor (n.) The party who makes a covenant.
Uncovenanted :: Uncovenanted (a.) Not having entered into relationship with God through the appointed means of grace; also, not promised or assured by the divine promises or conditions; as, uncovenanted mercies..
Confederate :: Confederate (v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
Adulterer :: Adulterer (n.) A man who violates his religious covenant.
Indissoluble :: Indissoluble (a.) Incapable of being rightfully broken or dissolved; perpetually binding or obligatory; firm; stable, as, an indissoluble league or covenant..
Pact :: Pact (v.) An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant.
Stipulation :: Stipulate (v. i.) To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France..
Conventicle :: Conventicle (n.) An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics..
Article :: Article (v. i.) To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
Covenant :: 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..
Covenant :: Covenant (n.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc..
Discovenant :: Discovenant (v. t.) To dissolve covenant with.
Stipule :: Stipulator (n.) One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants..
Contract :: Contract (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for..
Covenanted :: Covenanted (imp. & p. p.) of Covenan.
Contrahent :: Contrahent (a.) Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties..
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..
Covenantee :: Covenantee (n.) The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
Stipulation :: Stipulation (n.) That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops..
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