Thanks"giv`ing (?), n. 1.
The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or
mercies.
Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if
it be received with thanksgiving.
1 Tim. iv.
4.
In the thanksgiving before meat.
Shak.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs
Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.
Keble.
2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine
goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to
acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from
calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his
bounties.
&fist; In the United States it is now customary for the President by
proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in
November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past
year. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several States
in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by proclamation of
the governor.
Thanks"giv`ing (?), n. 1.
The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or
mercies.
Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if
it be received with thanksgiving.
1 Tim. iv.
4.
In the thanksgiving before meat.
Shak.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs
Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.
Keble.
2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine
goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to
acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from
calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his
bounties.
&fist; In the United States it is now customary for the President by
proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in
November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past
year. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several States
in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by proclamation of
the governor.
