friend, frend, frende, freond

[A. S. freond, orig. the pr. par. of freón, freógan =to love; cogn. with Dut. vriend; Ger. freund; O. H. Ger. fruint; Goth. frijonds a friend; Icel. frændi; Da. frænde; Sw.frände a kinsman.] An intimate acquaintance or a ociate; one who is attached to another by sentiments of affect tion, respect, and esteem. "Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend." Dryden: Wife of Bath's Tale, 486. 2. A near relation, more particularly a parent. "She is promised by her friends unto a gentleman." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1. 3. One not hostile; one of the same nation, party, or kin; a supporter or companion in arms. ""Who comes so fast in silence of the night?" 'A friend .'"-Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, v. 1. 4. One who is reconciled with another. (Followed by with .) IMG:content-0153.png:[blocks in formation] 8. A term of familiar addre or salutation. "Friend, how camest thou in hither?"- Matt . xxii. 12. 9. A Quaker; a member of the society of Friends. [ (4).] (1) A friend in or at Court : One who has influence in any quarter to help another in time of need. -Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt . 11., v. 1. "A friend i' the Court is better than a penny in purse." (2) Friends of God : Ecclesiol. & Ch. Hist.: A sect which flourished in Germany and Switzerland in the fourteenth century. It was a secret unorganized brotherhood for the cultivation of spiritual religion. (3) Friends of the People : Hist.: A society formed in London in 1792 to advocate reform. (4) Society of Friends : Ecclesiol. & Ch. Hist . A religious sect, better known as Quakers, which, however, is a nickname. (QUAKER.] Their founder was George Fox, an illiterate man, but of considerable natural ability, born at Drayton in Leicestershire, England, in July, 1624. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but could not settle steadily down to any secular occupation, the whole bent of his mind being toward religion. In 1647, at the age of twenty-three, he first began to preach independently of all other denominations, and by the following year had gained many adherents. When he went to the church of an ordinary clergyman, he had at first no scruple in rising to correct what he deemed erro- neo us in the doctrine of the preacher. Three in- stances of this are recorded, all of date 1649. In later years Fox did not disturb public worship. He pro- fe ed to be commanded by the Lord not to use the ordinary forms of salutation, and to substitute "thee" and "thou" for the more courteous "you" in conversation. He deemed it sinful to take oaths (those of supremacy and allegiance, for instance), or to pay or sanction the payment by his followers of tithes, and thus naturally encountered vehement hostility from both the civil and ecclesiastical authorities. The rougher section of the common father; we, wět, here, camel, her, thêre; fric-tion-le , a. [Eng. friction; -le .] Free from or without friction. friendly people were also his foes. But he unflinchingly propagated his opinions in England, on the continent of Europe, and in America till his death, on Jan. 13, 1691. The Friends, like their originator, had much to suffer, and nobly bore their trials. In the reign of Charles II., Robert Barclay, a Scotch knight, was a zealous follower of Fox. In that of James II., William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, with its capital, Philadelphia, high in the favor of the king, procured them some toleration. After the revolution of 1688 the sect was not molested, and by 7 & 8 William III., c. 34, were allowed to make a solemn affirmation instead of an oath. They have since rendered services to the cause of education, of liberty, and of humanity. They hold the Divinity of Christ, His atonement, and other doctrines generally called evangelical. They give the title of the Word of God to Christ alone, and not to the Scriptures. They hold that every man coming into the world is endued with a measure of light, grace, or good Spirit of Christ. They are opposed to all forms in worship, which divert the attention of the mind from the secret influence of the unction from the Holy One. They believe that the ministry should be unpaid, and decline to pay tithes. They believe the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper to be shadows and unnece ary now that the substance has been attained. They are opposed to taking oaths and war. They disown the heathen names of the days of the week, the observance_of times, vain amusements, and compliments. For many years the Friends, both male and female, affected a peculiar style of dre of extreme plainne of shape and color, but this custom has been gradually discontinued. (5) To be friends with any one: To be in a relation of friendship with. (6) To make friends: To become reconciled. *friend, *frend, v . t . [FRIEND, 8.] To act as a friend toward; to befriend; to favor; to support. "The people who favored and friended still the name of Constant i us."- P . Holland : Ammianus Mar cell in us, p. 177. *friend-ěd, *frend-ed, a . [Eng.friend; -ed.] 1. Having friends; befriended, supported. "O where have I been all this time? how friended, That I should lose myself thus desperately?" Beaum. & Flet.: Maid's Tragedy , iv. 2. Well disposed; inclined to love or act as a friend. "Not friended by his wish to your high person." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., 1., 2. *friend-e , *frend-e e, s. [Eng.friend; -e .] A female friend or relation. *friend-fül, *frend-ful, *frend-fulle, *frendefull, a. [Eng. friend ; ful (l).] Friendly; kindly disposed; loving. *friend-ing, s. [Eng. friend; -ing .] The state or quality of being a friend; friendline , friendship, favor.