the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Influence
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.
(2):
(n.) A flowing in or upon; influx.
(3):
(n.) Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
(4):
(n.) Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
(5):
(n.) Induction.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Influence'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/influence.html. 1828.
