RAISE, v.t. raze. [This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels, Luke 3:8. John 6:40, 44. These verbs appear to be the L. gradior, gressus, without the prefix. L. to go to walk, to pass.]  1. To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to raise a stone or weight; to raise the body in bed.  The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up.-Acts 12.  2. To set upright; as, to raise a mast.  3. To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to raise the frame of a house.  4. To build; as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall, &c.  I will raise forts against thee. Isa 29. amos 9.  5. To rebuild.  They shall raise up the former desolations. Isa 61.  6. To form to some height by accumulation; as, to raise a heap of stones. Josh 8.  7. To make; to produce; to amass; as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.  8. To enlarge; to amplify.  9. To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to raise one from a low estate. 10. To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to raise one to an office of distinction.  This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.  11. To enhance; to increase; as, to raise the value of coin; to raise the price of goods.  12. To increase in current value.  the plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.  13. To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to raise a tempest or tumult.  He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind. Psa 107.  14. To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up. Acts 14.  AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.  15. To rouse; to awake; to stir up.  They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep. Job 14.  16. To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness. The pulse is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.  17. To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to raise a family.  18. To bring into being.  God vouchsafes to raise another word for him.  19. To bring from a state of death to life.  He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Rom 4. 1 Cor 15.  21. To invent and propagate [To continue or multiply the kind by generation or successive production]; to originate; to occasion; as, to raise a report or story.  22. To set up; to excite; to begin by loud utterance; as, to raise a shout or cry.  25. To collect; to obtain; to bring into a sum or fund. Government raises money by taxes, excise and imposts. Private persons and companies raise money for their enterprises.  26. To levy; to collect; to bring into service; as, to raise troops; to raise an army.  27. To give rise to.  28. To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, &c.; to raise horses, oxen or sheep.  [The English now use grow in regard to crops; as, to grow wheat. This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently some persons have adopted it from the English books. We always use raise, but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the southern states.]  29. To cause to swell, heave and become light; as, to raise dough or paste by yeast or leaven.  Miss Liddy can dance a jig and raise paste.  30. To excite; to animate with fresh vigor; as, to raise the spirits or courage.  31. To ordain; to appoint; or to call to and prepare; to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose; a Scriptural sense.  I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren. Deu 18.  For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power. Exo 9. Judg 2.  32. To keep in remembrance. Ruth 4.  33. To cause to exist by propagation [To continue or multiply the kind by generation or successive production]. Mat 22.  34. To incite; to prompt. Ezra 1.  35. To increase in intensity or strength; as, to raise the heat of a furnace.

MAR'RIAGE, n. [L.mas, maris.] The act of uniting a man and woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. Marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. Marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity, and for securing the maintenance and education of children.   Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled. Heb 13 

1. A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.   The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage for his son. Mat 22.  2. In a scriptural sense, the union between Christ and his church by the covenant of grace. Rev 19.

RAW, a. [L. crudus, rodo.]  1. Not altered from its natural state; not roasted, boiled or cooked; not subdued by heat; as raw meat.  2. Not covered with skin; bare, as flesh.  If there is quick raw flesh in the risings, it is an old leprosy. Lev 13.  3. sore.  And all his sinews waxen weak and raw through long imprisonment.  4. Immature; unripe; not concocted.  5. Not altered by heat; not cooked or dressed; being in its natural state; as raw fruit.  6. Unseasoned; unexperienced; unripe in skill; as people while young and raw.  so we say, raw troops; and new seamen are called raw hands.  7. New; untried; as a raw trick.  8. Bleak; chilly; cold, or rather cold and damp; as a raw day; a raw cold climate.  Once upon a raw and gusty day -  9. Not distilled [water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.]; as raw water. [Not used.]  10. Not spun or twisted; as raw silk.  11. Not mixed or adulterated; as raw spirits.

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