Definition of Macarism

1. a beatitude [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Macarism

macadamizes
macadamizing
macadams
macahuba
macahubas
macallum
macallums
macamba
macao
macaque
macaques
macaranga gum
macarise
macarised
macarises
macarism (current term)
macarisms
macarize
macarized
macarizes
macarizing
macaron
macaroni
macaroni and cheese
macaroni and gravy
macaroni cheese
macaroni penguin
macaroni penguins
macaroni salad
macaroni wheat

Literary usage of Macarism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Miscellaneous Remains from the Commonplace Book of Richard Whately, D.D by Richard Whately, Elizabeth Jane Whately (1865)
"... macarism, and praise ; it is very hard to say what is and what is not to be regarded as part of himself; what is or is not to be regarded as depending ..."

2. Miscellaneous Remains from the Commonplace Book of Richard Whately: Being a by Richard Whately (1865)
"In reality all goods are the proper objects of macarism alone, for ' what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? ' Yet that there is a distinction in men's ..."

3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: see CURSE. beatitude, n. blessing; spec, macarism (rare). Antonyms: see CURSE. beautiful, a. lovely, lovesome (archaic), beauteous (literary and ..."

4. The Andover Review (1892)
"Professor Sanday remarks that a mere expression of Peter that Jesus was the Christ would never have procured him such a macarism as he receives from our ..."

5. Critical and Exegetical Hand-book to the Epistle to the Romans by Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (1884)
"This passage concerning David's macarism, therefore, is parenthetical as related to the main line of thought. But here, as in other places in his epistles, ..."

6. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"But, apart from the macarism, the text of Mt. has been interpolated (cp Holtzmann, Syn.&} 257) by the addition of the two terms ' son of Man '(sce SON OF ..."

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