faith cure (fathkur)

A bodily cure effected or supposed to be effected by prayer made with belief in its efficacy for the purpose; the praetice of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith alone. A faith-cure is a cure wrought by God in answer to prayer, without any other means. The Century, XXXI. 274. faith-curer (fath'kūrėr), n. One who practises or believes in the faith-cure. The miracles claimed by the faith -curers are in the same line of argument. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXII. 507. faith edt, a. [ME. feythed ; Than are they folk that han most God in awe, And strengest - feythed ben. Chaucer , Troilus, i. 1007. faithful (fath'ful), a. and n. [ So then they which be of faith are ble ed with faithful Abraham. Gal. iii. 9. You are not faithful , sir. This night I'll change All that is metal in my house to gold. B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, Whose loves in higher love endure. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxxii. 2. Firm in faith; full of loyalty and fidelity; true and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound, or in the performance of duties or services; exact in attending to commands: as, a faithful subject; a faith ful servant; a faithful husband or wife. Feithfullere frenchipe saw never frek [man] on erthe. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5434. IMG:content-1037.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Observant of compacts, treaties, contracts, vows, or other engagements; true to one's word: as, a government faithful to its treaties; faith ful to one's word.-4. Trustworthy; true; exact; conforming to the letter and spirit; conformable to truth or to a prototype: as, a faith ful execution of a will; a faithful narrative; a faithful likene . Not always right in all men's eyes, But faithful to the light within. O. W. Holmes, A Birthday Tribute. The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies, and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water; and the little globe is but a too faithful miniature of the large. Emerson, War. Before the invention of printing, painting was the most faithful mirror of the popular mind; and. there was scarcely an intellectual movement that it did not reflect. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 74. 5. True; worthy of belief; truthful: as, a faithful witne . A faithful witne will not lie: but a false witne will utter lies. Prov. xiv. 5. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Syn. 2. Truthful, careful, trusty, trustworthy, stanch, incorruptible, reliable.-4. Close, strict, accurate, consciII. n. A faithful person. entious. We likewise call to mind your other bill for his majesty's referring the choice of his privy-council unto you, coloured by your outcries against those his old faithfuls. British Bellman , 1648 (Harl. Misc., VII. 626). The faithful [L. fideles ]. (a) In the primitive church, those who had been received by baptism into church communion; believers; Christians. The title appears frequently in ancient inscriptions, particularly in the case of young children, who might otherwise be supposed to have died unbaptized. It is still used with the same significance in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. ( b ) Among Mohammedans, the true believers: hence the calif is called "Commander of the Faithful." (c) In political use, the general body of unquestioning adherents of a party: used in contempt by members of other parties. faithfully (fath'ful-i), adv. [ I... will do him service well and faithfully . William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 283. He warned hem fey the full ye What they shuld suffre are [ere] they shuld dye. Robert of Brunne , Medit., p. 249. 2. Sincerely; with strong a urance; earnestly: as, he faithfully promised. It is gret harm that he be leve the not feithefully in God. Mandeville, Travels, p. 246. Lady F. Hast thou denied thyself a Faulconbridge? Bast. As faithfully as I deny the devil. Shak., K. John, i. 1. 3. Conformably to truth or fact; in true accordance with an example or prototype: as, the battle was faithfully described or represented. They suppose the nature of things to be faithfully signified by their names. South. What he discovered, he faithfully committed first to paper in water colours, and then to copperplate with the burin. J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 268.