Definition of covenant

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Covenant (n.) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.

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Uncovenanted :: Uncovenanted (a.) Not having joined in a league, or assented to a covenant or agreement, as to the Solemn League and Covenant of the Scottish people in the times of the Stuarts..
Pact :: Pact (v.) An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant.
Assure :: Assure (v. t.) To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure..
Cameronian :: Cameronian (n.) A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II..
Undertaker :: Undertaker (n.) One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.
Covenanted :: Covenanted (imp. & p. p.) of Covenan.
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..
Article :: Article (v. i.) To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
Run :: Run (a.) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land..
Covenant :: Covenant (n.) A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc..
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..
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..
Quitclaim :: Quitclaim (v. t.) To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles..
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..
Covenant :: Covenant (v. t.) To grant or promise by 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..
Uncovenanted :: Uncovenanted (a.) Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract..
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..
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..
Contract :: Contract (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for..
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