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God's acre   /gɑdz ˈeɪkər/   Listen
noun
Acre  n.  
1.
Any field of arable or pasture land. (Obs.)
2.
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English. Note: The acre was limited to its present definite quantity by statutes of Edward I., Edward III., and Henry VIII.
Broad acres, many acres, much landed estate. (Rhetorical)
God's acre, God's field; the churchyard. "I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial ground, God's acre."


God  n.  
1.
A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol. "He maketh a god, and worshipeth it." "The race of Israel... bowing lowly down To bestial gods."
2.
The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah. "God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
3.
A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard. "Whose god is their belly."
4.
Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power. (R.)
Act of God. (Law) See under Act.
Gallery gods, the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. (Colloq.)
God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre.
God's house.
(a)
An almshouse. (Obs.)
(b)
A church.
God's penny, earnest penny. (Obs.)
God's Sunday, Easter.





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"God's acre" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gottesacker, or God's acre, whence little Jimmy had started on his comfortable journey. Early morning on the frost-covered grass, the frozen roads, the snap and sparkle of the Donau. Harmony had taken her problem there, in the early hour before Monia would summon ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... here, 'The graveyard fence needs repairing badly.' Do you not see, Mr. Denney, how far more refined it were to say 'God's acre,' or 'the marbled city of the dead'? I now turn from mere solecisms to the broader question of taste. Under the heading 'Hanged in Carroll County,' I read an item beginning, 'At eight-thirty, A.M., last Friday the soul of Martin G. Buckley, dressed in a neat-fitting suit ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson
... bowled over. But then," she ran on plaintively, "it ain't just us—Peter, Mary-Clare, and me—it's them folks down on the Point," the old face quivered touchingly. "The old doctor used to say it was God's acre for the living; the old doctor would have his joke. The Point always was a mean piece of land for any regular use, but it reaches out a bit into the lake and the fishing's good round it, and you can fasten boats to it and it's a real ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... the Gottesacker, or God's acre, whence little Jimmy had started on his comfortable journey. Early morning on the frost-covered grass, the frozen roads, the snap and sparkle of the Donau. Harmony had taken her problem there, in the early ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... seemed to have forgotten it. As we brought brush to cover it, in order to keep the cattle from dusting themselves in the loose earth, we talked matters over, and felt as though that mother's grave had been bequeathed to us. Grandma had instructed us that the graveyard is "God's acre," and that it is a sin to live near and not tend it. Still, no matter how often we chased the cattle away, they would return. We could not make them understand that their old resting-place ...
— The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate • Eliza Poor Donner Houghton


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