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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
ATO'NEMENT, n.
Reconciliation; restoration of
friendly relations; agreement; concord.
[Archaic]
By whom we have now received the atonement. He desires to make atonement Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an
equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be
received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; --
with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by
the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ.
When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best
atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were
thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former
offense. A
cavity, entrance, or passage; as, the atrium, or atrial cavity,
in the body wall of the amphioxus; an atrium of the infundibula
of the lungs, etc.
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