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عَزِيمَةٌ

Root: عزم

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عَزِيمَةٌ an Verbal.Noun of عَزَمَ in the sense first expl. above. [As a simple subst., it signifies Determination, resolution, decision, or fixed purpose of the mind; as also عَزْمٌ and عَزْمَةٌ : or] the disposition and subjection of the mind to the wish, or thing desired: or it is a subst. [signifying the making an affair to have, or take, effect; and settling it firmly;] from عَزَمَ الأَمْرَ meaning أَمْضَاهُ and أَحْكَمَهُ: or, as in the Mj, the settling, or determining, the heart, or mind, firmly upon the thing that one desires to do; as also عَزْمٌ : or, accord. to El-Ghooree, عَزْمٌ signifies the preceding desire to dispose and subject the mind to the act. [The pl., in all the senses, is عَزَائِمُ. Hence,] اِشْتَدَّتِ العَزَائِمُ means The determinations (عَزَمَات) of the commanders in the hostile and plundering expedition to distant parts, and their taking to them, became strong.
2 See also عَزْمَةٌ, in two places.
3 عَزَائِمُ ٱللّٰهِ means The obligatory statutes or ordinances of God: sing. عَزِيمَةٌ.
4 And, accord. to Er-Rághib, عَزِيمَةٌ signifies A charming; syn. تَعْوِيذٌ; as though thou imaginedst thy having imposed an obligation [thereby] upon the devil, lest [for اى in my original I read أَنْ as meaning لِئَلَّا] he should execute his desire upon thee: pl. عَزَائِمُ: or عَزَائِمُ signifies charms, or spells, that are recited [for the cure of diseases, &c.]: or certain verses of the Kur-án that are recited over persons affected with diseases, or the like, in the hope of cure: these are termed عَزَائِمُ القُرْآنِ: but عَزَائِمُ الرُّقَى are those [charms, or spells,] by which one conjures the jinn, or genii, and spirits.
5 عَزَائِمُ السُّجُودِ is an appellation of Certain portions of the Kur-án, which are المّ تَنْزِيلُ [chap. xxxii.] and السَّجْدَةُ حمَ [chap. xli.] and النَّجْمُ [chap. liii.] and اِقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ [chap. xcvi.]; [thus called because] they are those in [the reciting of] which one is commanded to prostrate himself.


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