| • | The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. |
| • | The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. |
| • | The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. |
| • | The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. |
| • | Fortune; luck; -- used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. |
| • | Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. |
| • | Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. |
| • | Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. |
| • | The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. |
| • | Thanks. |
| • | A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. |
| • | Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. |
| • | An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. |
| • | A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. |
| • | To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. |
| • | To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor. |
| • | To supply with heavenly grace. |
| • | To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to. |
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