) Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to
promote healing.
MERCIFUL
\Mer"ci*ful\, a. [Mercy + -ful.] 1. Full of mercy; having or
exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to
punish.
The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. --Ex. xxxiv. 6.
2. Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.
A merciful man will be merciful to his beast. --Old Proverb.
Syn: Compassionate; tender; humane; gracious; kind; mild; clement;
benignant. -- Mer\"ci*ful*ly, adv. -- Mer\"ci*ful*ness, n.
SHEW, v. t. [It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn, shewing.]
gr. to mark, perceive, hear
1. To exhibit or present to vjew; to place in sight; to display; --
the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect
object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding;
2. To exhibit to the mental vjew; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to
make known; as, to show one's designs.
Shew them the way wherein they must walk. --Ex. xviii. 20.
3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to
direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a
parlor; to show one to the door.
4. To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or
reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to
show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.
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