AIM M7 Ministry: Minding-Manners-Means

2 Corinthians 1:13 LSB For we write nothing else to you
than what you read and understand, and I hope you will
understand until the end

2 Thessalonians 2:1-13 ESV Now concerning the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to
him, we ask you, brothers, [2] not to be quickly shaken in
mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a
letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day
of the Lord has come. [3] Let no one deceive you in any
way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes
first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of
destruction, [4] who opposes and | exalts himself against
every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes
his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be
God. [5] Do you not remember that when I was still with
you I told you these things? [6] And you know what is
restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his
time. [7] For the mystery of lawlessness is already at
work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he
is out of the way. [8] And then the lawless one will be
revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath
of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance
of his coming. [9] The coming of the lawless one is by
the activity of Satan with all power and false signs
and wonders, [10] and with all wicked deception for
those who are perishing, because they refused to love
the truth and so be saved. [11] Therefore God sends
them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what
is false, [12] in order that all may be condemned who
did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
[13] But we ought always to give thanks to God for
you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God
chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through
sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

ACCOUNT'ABLE, a.
1.  Liable to be called to account; answerable to a superior.
Every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
2.  Subject to pay, or make good, in case of loss.  A sheriff
is accountable, as bailiff and receiver of goods.
Accountable for, that may be explained.  [Not elegant.]

INTEG'RITY, n. [L. integritas, from integer.]
1.  Wholeness; entireness; unbroken state. The constitution
of the U.States guaranties to each state the integrity of its
territories.  The contracting parties guarantied the integrity
of the empire.
2.  The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly
of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness;
uprightness; honesty.  Integrity comprehends the whole
moral character, but has a special reference to uprightness
in mutual dealings, transfers of property,and agencies
for others.  The moral grandeur of independent integrity is
the sublimest thing in nature, before which the pomp of
eastern magnificence and the splendor of conquest are
odious as well as perishable.
3.  Purity; genuine, unadulterated, unimpaired state; as
the integrity of language.

MAT'TER, n. [L. materia; Heb. to measure; L. metior.]
1.  Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which
is thrown our of discharged in a tumor,boil or abscess; pus;
purulent substance collected in an abscess, the effect of
suppuration more or less perfect; as digested matter; sanious matter.
2.  Body; substance extended; that which is visible or tangible; as
earth, wood, stone, air, vapor, water.
3.  In a more general and philosophic sense, the substance of which
all bodies are composed; the substratum of sensible qualities, though
the parts composing the substratum may not be visible or tangible.
Matter is usually divided by philosophical writers into four kinds or
classes; solid, liquid; aeriform, and imponderable.  Solid substances
are those whose parts firmly cohere and resist impression, as wood
or stone; liquids have free motion among their parts, and easily
yield to impression, as water and wine.  Aeriform substances are
elastic fluids, called vapors and gases, as air and oxygen gas.  The
imponderable substances are destitute of weight, as light, caloric,
electricity, and magnetism.
4.  Subject; thing treated; that about which we write or speak; that
which employs thought or excites emotion; as, this is matter of
praise, of gratitude, or of astonishment. Son of God, Savior of men,
thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song.
5.  The very thing supposed or intended He grants the deluge to have
come so very near the matter, that few escaped.
6.  Affair; business; event; thing; course of things.  Matters have
succeeded well thus far; observe how matters stand; thus the matter
rests at present; thus the matter ended.
 To help the matter,the alchimists call in many vanities from astrology.
 Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is
ripe for asking advice.
7.  Cause of any event, as of any disturbance, of a disease, or of a
difficulty.  When a moving machine stops suddenly, we ask, what is the
matter?  When a person is ill, we ask, what is the matter?  When a
tumult or quarrel takes place, we ask, what is the matter?
8.  Subject of complaint; suit; demand. If the matter should be tried by
duel between two champions-- Every great matter they shall bring to
thee, but every small matter they shall judge-- Ex.18.
9.  Import; consequence; importance; moment.
 A prophet some, and some a poet cry,
 No matter which, so neither of them lie.
    10. Space of time; a portion of distance.
 I have thoughts to tarry a small matter.
 Away he goes, a matter of seven miles--
[In these last senses,the use of matter is now vulgar.]
Upon the matter, considering the whole; taking all things
into view.  This phrase is now obsolete; but in lieu of it, we
sometimes use, upon the whole matter.
 Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were,
upon the whole matter, equal in foot.
Matter of record, that which is recorded, or which may be proved by record.
MAT'TER, v.i.  To be of importance; to import; used with it, this, that, or what. This
matters not; that matters not; chiefly used in negative phrases; as, what matters it?
 It matters not how they are called, so we know who they are.
1.  To maturate; to form pus; to collect, as matter in an abscess.
 Each slight sore mattereth. [Little used.]
[We now use maturate.]
MAT'TER, v.t.  To regard.  [Not used.]

MAN'NER, n. [L. manus, the hand.]
1.  Form; method; way of performing or executing.
 Find thou the manner, and the means prepare.
2.  Custom; habitual practice.
 Show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.  
This will be the manner of the king. 1 Sam.8.
 Paul, as his manner was--Acts 17.
3.  Sort; kind.
 Ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs. Luke 11.
 They shall say all manner of evil against you falsely--Matt.5.
In this application, manner has the sense of a plural word; all sorts or kinds.
4.  Certain degree or measure.  It is in a manner done already.
 The bread is in a manner common. 1 Sam.21.
This use may also be sometimes defined by sort or fashion; as we say,
a thing is done after a sort or fashion, that is, not well, fully or perfectly.
 Augustinus does in a manner confess the charge.
5.  Mien; cast of look; mode.
 Air and manner are more expressive than words.
6.  Peculiar way or carriage; distinct mode.
 It can hardly be imagined how great a difference was in the humor,
disposition and manner of the army under Essex and that under Waller.
 A man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself.
7.  Way; mode; of things.
 The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle,
but very powerful manner.
8.  Way of service or worship.
 The nations which thou hast removed and placed in the cities of
Samaria, know not the manner of the god of the land--2 Kings 7.
9.  In painting, the particular habit of a painter in managing colors,
lights and shades.
MAN'NER, v.t.  To instruct in manners.

MEAN, a. [L. communis, vulgus, minor and minuo.]
1.  Wanting dignity; low in rank or birth; as a man of mean
parentage,mean birth or origin.
2.  Wanting dignity of mind; low minded; base; destitute of
honor; spiritless. Can you imagine I so mean could prove,
 To save my life by changing of my love?
3.  Contemptible; despicable.
 The Roman legions and great Caesar found
 Our fathers no mean foes.
4.  Of little value; low in worth or estimation; worthy of little or no regard.
 We fast, not to please men, nor to promote any mean worldly interest.
5.  Of little value; humble; poor; as a mean abode; a mean dress.
MEAN, a.  [L. medium, medius.]
1.  Middle; at an equal distance from the extremes; as the means distance;
the mean proportion between quantities; the mean ratio.
 According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly.
2. Intervening; intermediate; coming between; as in the mean time or while.
MEAN, n.  The middle point or place; the middle rate or degree; mediocrity;
medium.  Observe the golden mean.
 There is a mean in all things.
 But no authority of gods or men
 Allow of any mean in poesy.
1.  Intervening time; interval of time; interim; meantime.
 And in the mean, vouchsafe her honorable tomb.
Here is an omission of time or while.
2.  Measure; regulation.  [Not in use.]
3.  Instrument; that which is used to effect an object; the medium
through which something is done. The virtuous conversation of christians
was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ.
In this sense, means, in the plural,is generally used, and often with a
definitive and verb in the singular.
 By this means he had them more at vantage.
 A good character,when established, should not be rested on as an end,
but employed as a means of doing good.
4. Means, in the plural, income, revenue, resources, substance or estate,
considered as the instrument of effecting any purpose.  He would have
built a house, but he wanted means.
 Your means are slender.
5.  Instrument of action or performance.
By all means, without fail.  Go, by all means.
By no means, not at all; certainly not; not in any degree.
 The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on
the other.By no manner of means, by no means; not the least.
By any means, possibly; at all.
 If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Phil.3.
Meantime
Meanwhile, in the intervening time. [In this use of these words there
is an omission of in or in the; in the meantime.]
MEAN, v.t. pret. and pp. meant; pronounced ment. [L. mens; Eng.mind;
L. intendo, propono.]
1.  To have in the mind, view or contemplation; to intend.
 What mean you by this service? Ex.12.
2.  To intend; to purpose; to design, with reference to a future act.
 Ye thought evil against me, but God meant it for good. Gen.1.
3.  To signify; to indicate.
 What mean these seven ewe lambs? Gen.21.
 What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the
Hebrews? 1 Sam.4.
 Go ye, and learn what that meaneth-- Matt.9.
MEAN, v.i.  To have thought or ideas; or to have meaning.

MEASURE, n. mezh'ur. [L. mensura, from mensus, with a casual n,
the participle of metior, to measure; Eng. to mete.]
1.  The whole extent or dimensions of a thing, including length,
breadth and thickness. The measure thereof is longer than the
earth and broader than the sea.  Job.11.
It is applied also to length or to breadth separately.
2.  That by which extent or dimension is ascertained, either length,
breadth, thickness, capacity, or amount; as, a rod or pole is a measure
of five yards and a half; an inch, a foot, a yard, are measures of length;
a gallon is a measure of capacity.  Weights and measures should be
uniform.  Silver and gold are the common measure of value.
3.  A limited or definite quantity; as a measure of wine or beer.
4.  Determined extent or length; limit.
 Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days. Ps.39.
5.  A rule by which any thing is adjusted or proportioned.
 God's goodness is the measure of his providence.
6.  Proportion; quantity settled. I enter not into the particulars
of the law of nature, or its measures of punishment; yet there is such a law.
7.  Full or sufficient quantity.
 I'll never pause again,
 Till either death hath clos'd these eyes of mine,
 Or fortune given me measure of revenge.
8.  Extent of power or office.
 We will not boast of things without our measure. 
2 Cor.10.
9.  Portion allotted; extent of ability.
 If else thou seekest
 Aught not surpassing human measure, say.
   10. Degree; quantity indefinite.
 I have laid down, in some measure,the description of the old world.
 A great measure of discretion is to be used in the performance of
confession.
11. In music, that division by which the motion of music is regulated;
or the interval or space of time between the rising and falling of the
hand or foot of him who beats time. This measure regulates the time
of dwelling on each note. The ordinary or common measure is one
second. 
12. In poetry, the measure or meter is the manner of ordering and
combining the quantities, or the long and short syllables. Thus,
hexameter, pentameter, Iambic, Sapphic verses, &c. consist of
different measure.
    13. In dancing, the interval between steps, corresponding to
the interval between notes in the music.
 My legs can keep no measure in delight.
    14. In geometry, any quantity assumed as one or unity, to
which the ratio of other homogeneous or similar quantities is expressed.
    15. Means to an end; an act, step or proceeding towards the
accomplishment of an object; an extensive signification of the word,
applicable to almost every act preparatory to a final end, and by which
it is to be attained. Thus we speak of legislative measures, political
measures, public measures, prudent measures, a rash measure, effectual
measures, inefficient measures.
In measure, with moderation; with excess.
Without measure, without limits; very largely or copiously.
To have hard measure, to be harshly or oppressively treated.
Lineal or long measure, measure of length; the measure of lines
or distances. Liquid measure, the measure of liquors.
MEASURE, v.t. mezh'ur.  To compute or ascertain extent, quantity,
dimensions or capacity by a certain rule; as, to measure land; to
measure distance; to measure the altitude of a mountain; to
measure the capacity of a ship or of a cask.
1.  To ascertain the degree of any thing; as, to measure
the degrees of heat, or of moisture.
2.  To pass through or over.
 We must measure twenty miles to day.
 The vessel plows the sea,
 And measures back with speed her former way.
3.  To judge of distance, extent or quantity; as, to measure
any thing by the eye.
 Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite
 Thy power; what thought can measure thee?
4.  To adjust; to proportion. To secure a contended spirit, measure your
desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.
5.  To allot or distribute by measure.
 With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matt.7.
 
ASSO'CIATE, v.t.  assoshate.  [L. associo, of ad and socio, to join.]
1.  To join in company, as a friend, companion, partner or
confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in
an enterprise. It conveys the idea of intimate union.
2.  To unite in the same mass; as, particles of matte associated
with other substances.
ASSO'CIATE, v.i.  
1.  To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as,
congenial minds are disposed to associate.
2.  To unite in action, or be affected by the action of a different
part of the body.
ASSO'CIATE, a.  
1.  Joined in interest or purpose; confederate.
2.  Joined in employment or office; as an associate judge.
ASSO'CIATE, n. 
1.  A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying
intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.
2.  A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
3.  A companion in a criminal transaction; an accomplice.