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covert(2) (iou)



covert noun. ME.
[Old French (mod. couvert) use as noun of masc. pa. pple of cuvrir, covrir COVER verb2.]
gen. A covering. ME.
= COVER noun1 10. ME.
A flock or company of coots. Long rare. LME.
A place which gives shelter to wild animals or game; esp. a thicket. L15.
= COVERTURE 8. Chiefly in under covert. M16-E18.
Ornithology. More fully covert feather. A feather covering the base of wing or tail feathers. Also called tectrix. Usu. in pl. L16.
Comb.: covert cloth a medium-weight fabric with a twill weave; covert coat a short light overcoat worn for shooting, riding, etc.; covert coating = covert cloth above; covert feather: see sense 6 above.

indulgence (medicine)


indulgence


1. The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control. "If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never issue from my lips." (Tooke) "They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less." (Hammond)

2. An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification. "If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly." (Rogers)

3. Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the Debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.

Origin: L. Indulgentia: cf. F. Indulgence.

Source: Websters Dictionary