covenant

  • 11covenant — s. m. Na Escócia, associação formada com vista a uma ação comum. (O covenant mais célebre foi o de 1638, que se opôs à introdução do anglicanismo na Escócia.) • Plural: covenants.   ‣ Etimologia: palavra inglesa que significa pacto …

    Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • 12covenant — [n] pact, promise agreement, arrangement, bargain, bond, commitment, compact, concordat, contract, convention, deal, deed, dicker*, handshake*, papers, stipulation, transaction, treaty, trust; concept 684 Ant. disagreement covenant [v] agree… …

    New thesaurus

  • 13covenant — ► NOUN 1) a solemn agreement. 2) a contract by which one undertakes to make regular payments to a charity. 3) an agreement held to be the basis of a relationship of commitment with God. ► VERB ▪ agree or pay by covenant. DERIVATIVES covenantal… …

    English terms dictionary

  • 14Covenant — Cov e*nant (k?v ? n?nt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Covenanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Covenanting}.] To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one s self by contract; to make a stipulation. [1913 Webster] Jupiter covenanted with him, that… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 15Covenant — (Kirchengesch.), so v.w. Convenant …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 16Covenant — (spr. kóww nent, Convenant), Name der Bündnisse, welche die presbyterianischen Schotten teils mit ihren Fürsten (so 1580 zuerst mit Jakob I.), teils untereinander (so 1638 gegen die Liturgie Karls I.) zur Aufrechthaltung ihres Glaubens, insbes.… …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 17Covenant — (spr. köww nänt), Bündnis, bes. der schott. Presbyterianer zum Schutz ihres Glaubens und ihrer Kirchenverfassung (1580 und 1638); daher Covenanters, Anhänger des C., Presbyterianer …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 18Covenant — (Kownännt), die Convention der Schotten von 1638 zum Schutz ihrer Presbyterialkirche gegen das engl. Episcopalsystem …

    Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • 19covenant — vb pledge, engage, *promise, plight, contract Analogous words: *agree, concur, coincide: *unite, combine, conjoin, cooperate …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 20covenant — covenantal /kuv euh nan tl/, adj. /kuv euh neuhnt/, n. 1. an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified. 2. Law. an incidental clause in such an agreement. 3. Eccles. a solemn agreement between the… …

    Universalium

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