Providential: alternatives and connections

The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of pub…

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.

A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contri…

One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.

A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronou…

To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from…

Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be unde…

A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not ref…

Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effect…

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the dire…

To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; a…

Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chron…

Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly…

The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in…

The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse b…

The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.

The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or…