It has a kind of commination appropriate to itself alone. From Wordnik.com. [Hymns of the Eastern Church] Reference
That fountain-threat and commination whence all others flow, Gen. ii. From Wordnik.com. [Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost] Reference
There is in this commination an appearance of severity beyond the rule established, Exod. xx. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Lest, however, this commination should not prove terrible enough, the examples of Belshazzar and others were judiciously subjoined. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
The words may be considered either as a prediction depending on God's prescience of what will be; or a commination from his just judgment of what shall be. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Something, in our passage, may be spoken for the vindication of divine justice herein, seeing we may be more concerned in that divine commination than the most are aware. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Resenting all criticism from outside, they scolded together constantly because the place was not perfect; and one distinguished citizen concluded a commination with the sad confession: 'I'd move away — but where could one move to?' —. From Wordnik.com. [Birthplace of a Magazine] Reference
At last, their dispute came near to an open declaration of hostilities, the incensed episcopalian bestowing on the recusants the whole thunders of the commination, and receiving from them, in return, the denunciations of a Calvinistic excommunication. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
The fourth prophetical commination was againfl the Syrians. From Wordnik.com. [The Holie Bible : faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in divers languages ...] Reference
The reviewer then quotes the poem down to the general commination, ending with. From Wordnik.com. [The Bon Gaultier Ballads] Reference
"Oh, hang Professor Wildmarsh!" said Keniston, softening the commination with a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Crucial Instances] Reference
The breezes that blew around his mouth in that walk carried off upon them the accents of a commination. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
Even the bishops and abbots of Norman blood disregarded the commination, and remained staunch to Harold. From Wordnik.com. [Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest] Reference
Had he chosen another interpretation and delayed, and been mistaken, then, too, commination would have fallen. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
Nature denounces, in her loud commination service, his clammy hand, his restless eye, his sinister and bestial mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
Now this commination, unexpected as it was from a lady of wealth and position, was not altogether unwarranted, and so I went on. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Dumany's Wife] Reference
The Bishop appears now as if he were reading a new commination -- to wit, "Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour; cursed is he that bowleth half volleys.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hill A Romance of Friendship] Reference
But if I was not smarting in person from any scattering shot of my late companions commination, why should I grow hot at any implication of my country therein?. From Wordnik.com. [On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners] Reference
The probability seems to be that, besides collecting from all sources known to him, the pedler had hired an able artist for the production of original poems of commination. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
They had their meetings by public toleration and connivance: and this is that for which the Spirit rounds them up with this short advice, armed and seconded with a severe commination. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
Now if this be, as I believe, the doctrine of the commination service; if this be, as I believe, the message of Ash-Wednesday, it is one which is quite free from superstition or cruelty: but it is. From Wordnik.com. [Town and Country Sermons] Reference
Elisha, his disciple; the greater prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel, and the groups of minor prophets announcing the advent of the Son, rising up in commination or lamentation, threatening or comforting the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
When the courtiers, alarmed by this commination (in which every kind of spiritual vengeance upon the realm and its rulers was denounced), asked, "Who durst avow it?" the grim Lindsay replied, "A thousand gentlemen within Edinburgh.". From Wordnik.com. [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference
Might he not more easily have never added such a commination to the law, — “thou shalt die,” or more easily relaxed and repealed that sentence, and passed by the sinner without any more, than exacted so heavy a punishment from one that was innocent?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
"It sounds to me much more like a commination service. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
"He's cursed me forever -- Put it all down in black and white -- a regular commination service. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomplete Amorist] Reference
Viz., that it is a commination of what shall be for the farther misery of that wretched people; they shall judicially be given up to a fighting against him. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
The old words of commination!. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
For solemn commination than another. From Wordnik.com. [VI. Lancelot: II] Reference
Prideaux’s sense of the righteous person here intended considered — Of the commination in the words,” Shall die” — The sense of the words — What death intended — Close of the consideration of the text insisted on — Matt. xviii. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
She meant a commination, or, at best. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
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