GRA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin gratiosus.] 1. Favorable; kind; friendly; as, the envoy met with a gracious reception. 2. Favorable; kind; benevolent; merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and impart unmerited blessings. Thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful. Nehemiah 9:17. 3. Favorable; expressing kindness and favor. All bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth. Luke 4:22. 4. Proceeding from divine grace; as a person in a gracious state. 5. Acceptable; favored. He made us gracious before the kings of Persia. [Little used.] 1 Esdras. 6. Renewed or implanted by grace; as gracious affections. 7. Virtuous; good. 8. Excellent; graceful; becoming.
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