A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning on St. Andrew's Day, or on the sabbath next before or after it. It is intended as a season of devotion, with reference to the coming of Christ in the flesh, and his second coming to judge the world.

Alleluiah:

Praise to Jehovah; a word used to denote pious joy and exultation, chiefly in hymns and anthems. The Greeks retained the word in their Enenev in, praise to Io; The Romans retained the latter word in their Io triummphe.

Dominion:

 1.  Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and  controlling. The dominion of the Most    High is an everlasting    dominion. Dan iv.

2.  Power to direct, control, use and dispose of at pleasure; right of possession and use without being accountable; as the private dominion of individuals. Locke

3. Territory under a government; region; country; district governed, or within the limits of the authority of a prince or state; as the British dominions.

4.  Government; right of governing. Jamaica is under the dominion of Great Britain.

5.  Predominance; ascendant. Dryden.

6.  An order of angels. Whether they be thrones,or dominions, or principalities, or powers. Col. i.

7.  Persons governed. Judah was his sanctuary; Israel his dominion. Ps. cxiv.

0. The day of the final judgment; the great day when all men are to be judged and consigned to endless happiness or misery.    Shak. Dryden

0. The day of sentence or condemnation. Shak.

Gay:

1.)  Merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicksome.  It denotes more life and animation than cheerful.
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.

2.)  Fine; showy; as a gay dress.

3.)  Inflamed or merry with liquor; intoxicated; a vulgar use of the word in America.

General:

1.  The whole; the total; that which comprehends all or the chief part; opposed to the particular.

     In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals.     Locke.

     A history painter paints man in general.       Reynolds.

2.  In general, in the main; for the most part; not always or universally.

     I have shown that he excels, in general, under each of these heads.       Addison.

3. The chief commander of an army.  But to distinguish this officer from other generals, he is often called general in chief.     The officer second in rank is called lietenant general.      

4.  The commander of a division of an army or militia, usually called a major general.

5.  The commander of a brigade, called a brigadier general.

6.  A particular beat of drum or march, being that which, in the morning, gives notice for the infantry to be in readiness to march.       Encyc.

7.  The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations established under the same rule.       Encyc.

8.  The public; the interest of the whole; the vulgar. [Not in use.]       Shak.

God:

0. The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the eternal and infinite spirit, the creator of the universe. God is spirit; and they that worship Him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv.

0. A false god; a heathen deity; an idol. Fear not the gods of the Amorites. Judges vi.

0. A prince; a ruler; a magistrate or judge; an angel. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the rulers of thy people. Ex. xxii. Ps. xcvii. [Gods here is a bad translation.]

0. Any person or thing exalted too much in estimation, or deified and honored as the chief good. Whose god is their belly. Phil. iii.

Propagation:

0. The act of propagating; the continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray

0. The spreading or extension of any thing; as the propagation of sound or of reports.

0. The spreading of any thing by planting and establishing in places before destitute; as the propagation of the gospel among pagans.

0. A forwarding or promotion.

Provide:

0. To procure beforehand; to get, collect or make ready for future use; to prepare. Abraham said, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering. Gen. xxii. Provide neither gold nor silver nor brass in your purses. Matt. x. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Rom. xii.

0. To furnish; to supply; followed by with. Rome, by the care of the magistrates, was well provided with corn. Arbuthnot.

0. To stipulate previously. The agreement provides that the party shall incur no loss.

0. To make a previous conditional stipulation. [see provided.]

0. To foresee; a Latinism. [Not in use.] B. Jonson

0. Provide, in a transitive sense, is followed by against or for. We provide warm clothing against the inclemencies of the weather; we provide necessaries against a time of need; or we provide warm clothing for winter, &c.

Sovereign:

0. Supreme in power; possessing supreme dominion; as a sovereign prince. God is the sovereign ruler of the universe.

0. Supreme; superior to all others; chief. God is the sovereign good of all who love and obey him.

0. Supremely efficacious; superior to all others; predominant; effectual; as a sovereign remedy.

0. Supreme; pertaining to the first magistrate of a nation; as sovereign authority.