The Collaborative International Dictionary
Covenant \Cov"e*nant\ (k?v"?-n?nt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Covenanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Covenanting.] To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.
Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or
cold, wet or dry, . . . as the tenant should direct.
--L'Estrange.
And they covenanted with him for thyrty pieces of
silver.
--Matt. xxvi.
15.
Syn: To agree; contract; bargain; stipulate.
Covenanting \Cov"e*nant*ing\, a. Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.
Be they covenanting traitors,
Or the brood of false Argyle?
--Aytoun.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of covenant English)
Usage examples of "covenanting".
Under His gracious influence, the bonds of prejudice against covenanting are as green withs and the covenanter stands forth in liberty and in power.
Hence, the nature, objects, and benefits of personal and national Covenanting are exhibited in a manner fitted to attract to that ordinance the minds and hearts of men.
The young Church of Scotland was based on the Word of God, anti-papal, free, reformed, and covenanting, and in that character acknowledged by the State.
The work of Covenanting is itself a lofty spiritual exercise, and requires a people possessing much of the Spirit of the living God.
The reading of even the scant records of those times of Covenanting, telling of the prayers, and tears, and love, and courage of those who gave themselves to God, is fitted to inspire the coldest heart with noblest emotions.
In and around their whole Covenanting procedure, there was the atmosphere of a paradise of communion with God.
Hence it was a custom upon the making up of covenants, for the parties covenanting, soberly to feast together.
And this might suffice to warrant our covenanting to extirpate this prelacy, save that only.
God may justly challenge obedience without covenanting, by virtue of creation, preservation and redemption: He hath made us, and, when lost, He hath purchased us with His blood.