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Scofield Reference Index
• Acts
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Manual Acts
American Tract Society
• Acts of the Apostles
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Acts, Book of
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Luke-Acts, Theology of
• Acts, Theology of
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Toleration Act
• Test Act
• Acts of the Apostles
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Acts of the Apostles
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Acts, Theology of
• Acts, the Book of
• Acts of the Apostles
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• God: Acting As a Father
Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Acts of the Apostles
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Acts of the Apostles (Apocryphal)
• Acts of the Apostles (2)
• Acts of the Apostles
King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Acts of the Apostles
• Acts of Pilate
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Martyrs, Acts of the
• Indifferent Acts
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Acts of the Apostles
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Acts of The Apostles
Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
• Single-Acting
• Self-Acting
• Ripper Act
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Acts of the Apostles
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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• Act of Parliament
• Act of Sederunt
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Acts of Pilate
• Acts of Solomon
• Acts of the Apostles
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Acts of the Apostles
• Acts Spurious
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Act of Faith
• Act of Uniformity.
• Act, Conventicle
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Acts of the Apostles
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Act of Settlement (Irish)
• Acts of Roman Congregations
• Acts of the Apostles
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Acts of Parliament Relating to the Jews of England
Lexicons
• ܥܳܒ݂ܶܕ݂
• ἀνδρίζομαι
• ἀσχημονέω , εὐσχημονέω
• ἀσχημοσύνη
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• בָּאַשׁ
• בָּגַד
• בּוֹשׁ , בּוֹשׁ
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ACT, Gr., Lat. to urge, drive, lead, bring, do, perform, or in general to move, to exert force.

1. To exert power as, the stomach acts upon food the will acts upon the body in producing motion.

2. To be in action or motion to move

He hangs between in doubt to act or rest.

3. To behave, demean, or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices as, we know not why a minister has acted in this manner. But in this sense, it is most frequent in popular language as, how the man acts or has acted.

To act up to, is to equal in action to fulfil or perform a correspondent action as he has acted up to his engagement or his advantages.