Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sealing; ratification by sealing; confirmation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of sealing or ratifying; the state of being sealed or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
sealing orratifying . - noun
Confirmation , as by theHoly Spirit .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, if Jesus Christ be thus present by way of representation, exhibition, and obsignation, what is required of us, that we may meet him, and be present with him?
Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968
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Christ is present in this ordinance by way of obsignation: he comes here to seal the covenant; and therefore the cup is called “The new testament in the blood of Christ.”
Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968
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Not by any [94] real essential conveying of spiritual grace by corporeal means, but by the way of promise, obsignation, and covenant, confirming the grace wrought in us by the Word and Spirit.
Two Short Catechisms 1616-1683 1965
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_ according to the merit of their idolatry: they bring the matter of their own damnation with them, and they shall carry away nothing else from Me, but the answer or obsignation of that damnation.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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