grace

grace
    n 1: (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the
         state of one who is under such divine influence; "the
         conception of grace developed alongside the conception of
         sin"; "it was debated whether saving grace could be
         obtained outside the membership of the church"; "the Virgin
         lived in a state of grace" [syn: {grace}, {saving grace},
         {state of grace}]
    2: elegance and beauty of movement or expression; "a beautiful
       figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled
       grace" [syn: {grace}, {gracility}]
    3: a sense of propriety and consideration for others; "a place
       where the company of others must be accepted with good grace"
       [syn: {seemliness}, {grace}] [ant: {unseemliness}]
    4: a disposition to kindness and compassion; "the victor's grace
       in treating the vanquished" [syn: {grace}, {good will},
       {goodwill}]
    5: (Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of
       beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors
    6: a short prayer of thanks before a meal; "their youngest son
       said grace" [syn: {grace}, {blessing}, {thanksgiving}]
    7: (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or
       beneficence of God; "God's grace is manifested in the
       salvation of sinners"; "there but for the grace of God go I"
       [syn: {grace}, {grace of God}, {free grace}]
    v 1: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.;
         "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for
         the special day" [syn: {decorate}, {adorn}, {grace},
         {ornament}, {embellish}, {beautify}]
    2: be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables
       everywhere" [syn: {deck}, {adorn}, {decorate}, {grace},
       {embellish}, {beautify}]
    

Grace \Grace\ (gr[=a]s), n. [F. gr[^a]ce, L. gratia, from gratus
   beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. akin to Gr. ? to rejoice,
   cha`ris favor, grace, Skr. hary to desire, and E. yearn. Cf.
   {Grateful}, {Gratis}.]
   1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition
      to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege
      conferred.
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            To bow and sue for grace
            With suppliant knee.                  --Milton.
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   2. (Theol.) The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as
      distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His
      mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of
      acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor.
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            And if by grace, then is it no more of works. --Rom.
                                                  xi. 6.
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            My grace is sufficicnt for thee.      --2 Cor. xii.
                                                  9.
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            Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
                                                  --Rom. v. 20.
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            By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
            wherein we stand.                     --Rom. v.2
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   3. (Law)
      (a) The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as
          pardon.
      (b) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of
          equitable relief through chancery.
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   4. Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it
      means misfortune. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic
      fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
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            He is complete in feature and in mind.
            With all good grace to grace a gentleman. --Shak.
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            I have formerly given the general character of Mr.
            Addison's style and manner as natural and
            unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those
            graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over
            writing.                              --Blair.
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   6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness;
      commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
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            Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and
            secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt.
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            I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and
            the grace of the gift.                --Longfellow.
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   7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister
      goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the
      attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They
      were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely,
      Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the
      inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to
      wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
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            The Graces love to weave the rose.    --Moore.
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            The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior.
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   8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and
      formerly of the king of England.
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            How fares your Grace !                --Shak.
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   9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.]
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            Yielding graces and thankings to their lord
            Melibeus.                             --Chaucer.
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   10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks
       rendered, before or after a meal.
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   11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either
       introduced by the performer, or indicated by the
       composer, in which case the notation signs are called
       grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
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   12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the
       government of the institution; a degree or privilege
       conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton.
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   13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of
       motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one
       player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of
       each. Called also {grace hoop} or {hoops}.
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   {Act of grace}. See under {Act}.

   {Day of grace} (Theol.), the time of probation, when the
      offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted.
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            That day of grace fleets fast away.   --I. Watts.

   {Days of grace} (Com.), the days immediately following the
      day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are
      allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In
      Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are
      three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants
      being different.

   {Good graces}, favor; friendship.

   {Grace cup}.
       (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after
           grace.
       (b) A health drunk after grace has been said.
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                 The grace cup follows to his sovereign's
                 health.                          --Hing.

   {Grace drink}, a drink taken on rising from the table; a
      grace cup.
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            To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the
            custom of the grace drink, she having established it
            as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till
            grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc.
                                                  Brit.

   {Grace hoop}, a hoop used in playing graces. See {Grace}, n.,
      13.

   {Grace note} (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See {Appoggiatura}, and
      def. 11 above.

   {Grace stroke}, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace.
      

   {Means of grace}, means of securing knowledge of God, or
      favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc.

   {To do grace}, to reflect credit upon.
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            Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak.

   {To say grace}, to render thanks before or after a meal.

   {With a good grace}, in a fit and proper manner grace fully;
      graciously.

   {With a bad grace}, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory
      manner; ungraciously.
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            What might have been done with a good grace would at
            least
            be done with a bad grace.             --Macaulay.

   Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy.

   Usage: {Grace}, {Mercy}. These words, though often
          interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar
          meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is
          spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy
          is kindness or compassion to the suffering or
          condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way
          for the exercise of mercy toward men. See {Elegance}.
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Grace \Grace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Graced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Gracing}.]
   1. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
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            Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
                                                  --Pope.
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            We are graced with wreaths of victory. --Shak.
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   2. To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.
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            He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he
            would
            in court.                             --Knolles.
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   3. To supply with heavenly grace. --Bp. Hall.
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   4. (Mus.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
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Grace
(1.) Of form or person (Prov. 1:9; 3:22; Ps. 45:2). (2.) Favour,
kindness, friendship (Gen. 6:8; 18:3; 19:19; 2 Tim. 1:9). (3.)
God's forgiving mercy (Rom. 11:6; Eph. 2:5). (4.) The gospel as
distinguished from the law (John 1:17; Rom. 6:14; 1 Pet. 5:12).
(5.) Gifts freely bestowed by God; as miracles, prophecy,
tongues (Rom. 15:15; 1 Cor. 15:10; Eph. 3:8). (6.) Christian
virtues (2 Cor. 8:7; 2 Pet. 3:18). (7.) The glory hereafter to
be revealed (1 Pet. 1:13).
    

Grace, ID (city, FIPS 32500)
  Location: 42.57634 N, 111.73003 W
  Population (1990): 973 (379 housing units)
  Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 83241
    

Grace, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
   Population (2000):    990
   Housing Units (2000): 389
   Land area (2000):     0.987294 sq. miles (2.557079 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.987294 sq. miles (2.557079 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            32500
   Located within:       Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
   Location:             42.576245 N, 111.729599 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     83241
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Grace, ID
    Grace
    

GRACE. That which a person is not entitled to by law, but which is extended 
to him as a favor; a pardon, for example, is an act of grace. There are-
certain days allowed to a payer of a promissory note or bill of exchange, 
beyond the time which appears on its face, which are called days of grace. 
(q. v.) 
    

467 Moby Thesaurus words for "grace":
      Angelus, Atticism, Ave, Ave Maria, BOMFOG, Benthamism,
      Christian charity, Christian love, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison,
      Paternoster, ability, absolution, acciaccatura, acknowledgment,
      acquired taste, act of grace, act of kindness, address, adeptness,
      adorn, adroitness, advantageousness, agape, agreeableness,
      aid prayer, airmanship, altruism, amenities, amnesty, appeal,
      appealingness, appoggiatura, appreciation of excellence,
      appropriateness, arabesque, array, artfulness, artisanship,
      artistry, attractiveness, auspiciousness, beadroll, beads,
      beatification, beatitude, beauteousness, beautifulness, beautify,
      beauty, beauty unadorned, become one, becomingness, bedeck,
      bedizen, benediction, benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness,
      benefit, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness,
      benignity, beseechment, bestow honor upon, bewitchment,
      bidding prayer, bigheartedness, blazon, blessedness, blessing,
      bloom, boon, bravura, breeding, breviary, brilliance,
      brotherly love, cadence, cadenza, canonization, capability,
      capacity, captivation, caritas, censor, ceremonies, chaplet,
      charitableness, charity, charm, chasteness, chastity, choiceness,
      civilities, civilized taste, civilizedness, clarity, class,
      classicalism, classicism, clearness, clemency, cleverness, cogency,
      cognizance, collect, color, coloratura, comeliness, command,
      commiseration, communion, compassion, compassionateness,
      competence, condolence, confer distinction on, conscience,
      conscientiousness, consecration, considerateness, consideration,
      contemplation, control, coordination, correctness, courtesy, craft,
      craftsmanship, credit, crediting, cultivated taste, cultivation,
      culture, cunning, daintiness, dandify, decency, deck, deck out,
      decorate, decorum, dedication, deftness, delicacy, delightfulness,
      desert, devotion, devotions, dexterity, dextrousness, dignify,
      dignities, dignity, diplomacy, directness, discernment,
      discrimination, distinction, distinguish, division, dizen,
      do-goodism, doll up, dress, dress up, ease, efficiency, elegance,
      elegancies, elegancy, embellish, embellishment, emblazon,
      embroider, enchantment, enhance, enravishment, enrich,
      enshrinement, entrancement, entreaty, ethical self, etiquette,
      exaltation, excellence, exculpation, excuse, exemption,
      exoneration, expedience, expertise, exquisiteness, facility,
      fairness, fascination, fastidiousness, favor, favorableness,
      feeling, felicitousness, felicity, fig out, fineness, finesse,
      finish, fioritura, first-rateness, fittingness, fix up, flight,
      flourish, flow, flower power, flowing periods, fluency,
      forbearance, forgiveness, formalities, furbish, garnish,
      generosity, gentilities, giving, glamorize, glamour, glorification,
      glow, good deed, good manners, good offices, good taste, good turn,
      goodliness, goodness, goodwill, grace note, gracefulness, graces,
      gracility, graciosity, graciousness, greatheartedness, grip,
      gussy up, hallowing, handiness, handsomeness, healthiness,
      helpfulness, honor, horsemanship, humanitarianism, humanity, hymn,
      immunity, impetration, imploration, incidental, incidental note,
      indemnity, indulgence, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inner arbiter,
      intercession, invitingness, invocation, inward monitor,
      justification, justification by works, kind deed, kind offices,
      kindliness, kindly act, kindness, know-how, labor of love,
      largeheartedness, leniency, lenity, limpidity, litany,
      long mordent, love, love of mankind, loveliness, lucidity, luxury,
      manna, mannerliness, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, meditation,
      mercifulness, mercy, merit, mitigation, mitzvah, moral censor,
      mordent, naturalness, neatness, niceness, nicety, obligation,
      obsecration, obtestation, office, orison, ornament, paean, paint,
      pardon, passage, pathos, pellucidity, perspicuity, petition,
      philanthropism, philanthropy, pity, plainness, pleasantness,
      poetry, poise, polish, politeness, practical ability, praise,
      pralltriller, prank, prank up, prayer, prayer of thanks,
      prayer wheel, preen, prettify, prettiness, pretty up, primp,
      primp up, prink, prink up, proficiency, profitableness, propriety,
      prowess, pulchritude, purification, purity, quality, quarter,
      quickness, readiness, recognition, redecorate, redemption, redo,
      refinement, refurbish, relief, remission, remission of sin,
      reprieve, resource, resourcefulness, respite, responsiveness,
      restraint, rewardingness, rites, rituals, rogation, rosary,
      roulade, run, ruth, sainthood, sainting, sanctification,
      savoir faire, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, seemliness,
      self-pity, sensuousness, service, set off, set out, setting apart,
      shrift, signalize, silent prayer, simplicity, single mordent,
      skill, skillfulness, smarten, smarten up, smoothness,
      social conscience, sophistication, soundness, sparing, spruce up,
      state of grace, straightforwardness, style, suaveness, suavity,
      subtlety, suit, superego, superiority, suppleness, supplication,
      sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tantalizingness, taste, tastefulness,
      technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill,
      technique, temptingness, tender conscience, tenderness, terseness,
      thank offering, thank-you, thanks, thanksgiving, the beautiful,
      timing, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim, turn,
      twinge of conscience, unaffectedness, usefulness, utilitarianism,
      validity, value, virtue, virtuosity, virtuousness,
      voice of conscience, voluptuousness, welfarism, well-disposedness,
      wholeness, winningness, winsomeness, wit, witchery, wizardry,
      workmanship, worth