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charity|ˈtʃærɪtɪ|
Forms: α. 2 carited, kariteþ, -teð; β. 2–6 charite, cherite, 4–5 cheryte, 4–6 charyte, charitee, 4–7 charitie, 4– charity.
[Two early types of this word appear in Eng.: (1) cariteð, -teþ, (2) charité; these are adoptions respectively of ONF. caritedh, -tet(þ), (later, and mod.Pic. carité), and the somewhat later central OF. charité (earlier charitet); which correspond to Pr. caritat, Sp. caridad, It. carità, semi-popular adaptations of L. cāritāt-em in its theological sense. In truly popular use L. cāritāt-em had already become, through pop. Lat. *cartāt-em, Pr. cartat, ONF. kierté, OF. chierté, mod.F. cherté. But this had the general Latin senses of ‘dearness (high price), fondness, affection’, as well as those belonging specially to New Testament and Christian use; subsequently, to indicate the latter more distinctly, the Latin word, familiar in the language of the church, passed anew into popular use, and undergoing (from its later date) less phonetic change, gave caritat, caritet, charitet, charité. Mixture of the two forms gave the type cherité, and, in Eng. at least, the two words were not kept altogether distinct in use. See cherte.
The Greek word for ‘love’ in the N.T. (occasionally also in LXX) is ἀγάπη, from root of vb. ἀγαπά-ειν ‘to treat with affectionate regard’, ‘to love’; in the Vulgate, ἀγάπη is sometimes rendered by dilectio (noun of action f. diligere to esteem highly, love), but most frequently by caritas, ‘dearness, love founded on esteem’ (never by amor). Wyclif and the Rhemish version regularly rendered the Vulgate dilectio by ‘love’, caritas by ‘charity’. But the 16th c. Eng. versions from Tindale to 1611, while rendering ἀγάπη sometimes ‘love’, sometimes ‘charity’, did not follow the dilectio and caritas of the Vulgate, but used ‘love’ more often (about 86 times), confining ‘charity’ to 26 passages in the Pauline and certain of the Catholic Epistles (not in 1 John), and the Apocalypse, where the sense is specifically 1 c below. In the Revised Version 1881, ‘love’ has been substituted in all these instances, so that it now stands as the uniform rendering of ἀγάπη, to the elimination of the distinction of dilectio and caritas introduced by the Vulgate, and of ‘love’ and ‘charity’ of the 16th c. versions.]
1. Christian love: a word representing caritas of the Vulgate, as a frequent rendering of ἀγάπη in N.T. Greek. With various applications: as
†a. God's love to man. (By early writers often identified with the Holy Spirit.) Obs.
c1200Ormin 3000, & Godess Gast iss kariteþ & soþfasst lufe nemmnedd; & tatt wass all þurrh kariteþ & þurrh soþ lufe forþedd Þatt Godess sune Allmahtiȝ Godd Warrþ mann of Sannte Marȝe. 138.Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 509 Ȝoven of Crist of..his endeles charitee to mankinde. 1382― Rom. viii. 39 The charite [Tindale, etc. love, Rhem. charitie] of God, that is in Jhesu Crist oure Lord. 1488Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyld. 27 The whiche goodnes is god hymself for he ys all charyte. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 223 Be the merit of the same maist haly Passion the Charitie of God is powred forth in thair hartes. [1839J. H. Newman Par. Serm. IV. xxi. 363 Charity is but another name for the Comforter.]
†b. Man's love of God and his neighbour, commanded as the fulfilling of the Law, Matt. xxii. 37, 39. Obs.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 39 Hwet is riht cherite..þet þu luuie þine drihten ofer..alle eorðliche þing..and seoðdan beoden uwilc mon swa þu waldest þet me þe bude, þis is riht cherite. c1200Vices & Virtues 21 Ic clepie and bidde for ðo muchele kariteð ðe is an ȝeu. c1315Shoreham 3 That man lovye God and man, Ase charité hyt hoteth. 1488Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyld. 27 In goodnes of charyte is a bonde of loue the whiche draeth us to god. 1547Homilies i. Charity ii. (1859) 69 Charity stretcheth itself both to God and man, friend and foe. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 42 Quhate is cherite? It is lufe, quharby we lufe God for his awin saik..and our neichbour for Gods saik, or in God. 1557N. T. (Genev.) Rev. ii. 4 Neuerthelesse, I haue somwhat agaynst thee, because thou hast left thy fyrst charitie. [So Wyclif, and Rhemish: Geneva 1560 ‘love’.] 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §14 This I think charity, to love God for himselfe, and our neighbours for God. 1846Keble in Plain Serm. VIII. ccxli, Charity—the true love of God in Christ..ensures the practice of all other virtues.
c. esp. The Christian love of our fellow-men; Christian benignity of disposition expressing itself in Christ-like conduct: one of the ‘three Christian graces’, fully described by St. Paul, 1 Cor. xiii.
(One of the chief current senses in devotional language, though hardly otherwise without qualification as ‘Christian charity’, etc. In the Revised Version, the word has disappeared, and love has been substituted.)
a1300Cursor M. 10043 Cherite [v.r. cheryte, charite] euer fordos envie. 1382Wyclif i Cor. viii. 1 Sothli science, or kunnynge, inblowith with pride: charite edifieth. Ibid. xiii. 13 Nowe forsothe dwellen feith, hope, and charite, thes thre; forsoth the mooste of thes is charite. c1450Lay-Folks Mass-Bk. 308 Haue cherité with herte fyne.. That eche man loue wel othere. 1587Golding De Mornay xx. 318 Some tell vs that Religion is nothing els but charitie, that is to say, the performing of a mans duetie towards his neighbour. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 261 'Twere good you do so much for charitie. Iew. I cannot finde it, 'tis not in the bond. 1628Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 63 A Shee precise Hypocrite..Shee is so taken vp with Faith, shee ha's no roome for Charity. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 483 The charity of the Gospel should extend to men of every Religion. 1845R. Jebb in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) II. 709/1 The law of charity does not require me to have a greater regard for him than for myself. But, on the other hand, the same law requires that I should not have a less.
d. In this sense often personified in poetic language, painting, sculpture, etc.
c1300Deus Caritas 33 in E.E.P. (1862) 127 Let Charite nou a-wake, And do hit þer neode is. 1377Langl. P. Pl. viii. 45 Charite þe champioun chief help aȝein synne. 1726Thomson Winter 354 The conscious heart of Charity would warm. 17..H. More Ode Charity, O Charity, divinely wise, Thou meek-ey'd Daughter of the skies! c1850G. Rorison Hymn to Trinity, Lift on us thy Light Divine: And let charity benign Breathe on us her balm.
e. in, out of, charity: in or out of the Christian state of charity, or love and right feeling towards one's fellow Christians.
c138.Wyclif Wks. (1880) 274 A symple pater noster of a plouȝman þat his in charite is betre þan a thousand massis of coueitouse prelatis. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xi. 38 He falleþ nat out of charite. 1455E. Clere in Four C. Eng. Lett. 5 And he seith he is in charitee with all the world. 1519W. Horman Vulg. xxiv. 201, I can nat be in charity with hym that holdeth wrongefully from me my landis. 1633Massinger New Way i. ii, I am out of charity With none so much as the thin-gutted squire. 1735Pope Donne's Sat. iv. 3, I die in charity with fool and knave. 1816Jane Austen Emma III. xiv. 257 She was now in perfect charity with Frank Churchill.
f. In various phrases: see the quotations.
a1240Ureisun 161 in Cott. Hom. 199 Nu ich þe bi-seche ine cristes cherite. c1250Hymn Virg. 19 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 258 Bisech þin sune par cherite þat he me sschilde from helle pin. c1305Land Cokayne ad fin., Prey we god so mote hit be. Amen, per seinte charite. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 324 Levys me tharfor, par cheryte. 1461J. Paston, jr. in Lett. 410 II. 39 Besechyng yow for cheryte of your dayly blyssyng. 1575J. Still Gamm. Gurton iv. ii, Helpe me to my neede, for Gods sake, and Saint Charitie. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 247 Ah deare Lord, and sweete Saint Charitee [E.K. gloss., The Catholiques comen othe]. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 273 Peace, peace for shame: If not, for Charity. 1601― Twel. N. v. i. 273 Of charity, what kinne are you to me? 1602― Ham. iv. v. 58 By gis, and by S. Charity, Alacke, and fie for shame.
2. a. Without any specially Christian associations: Love, kindness, affection, natural affection: now esp. with some notion of generous or spontaneous goodness.
In Wyclif, repr. caritas of the Vulgate, which (like ἀγάπη, -ησις) is used very generally in the O.T. In other cases influenced perhaps by OF. chierté, L. caritas, or simply with generalized sense.
a1225Ancr. R. 408 Cherite—þet is cherte of leoue þinge & of deore. 1382Wyclif Jer. ii. 2 Rewende thin waxende ȝouthe, and the charite of thi weddyng. Ibid. xxxi. 3 In euere lastende charite Y louede thee. ― Hosea xi. 4 In litil boondis of Adam Y shal drawe hem, in boondis of charitee. ― Rom. xii. 10 Louynge to gidere the charite of britherhed [Gr. τὴ ϕιλαδελϕίᾳ].c1430Lydg. Bochas i. ix. (1544) 17 b, The king, the quene of Corinth, the country, Had the chylde in so great charitie. 1483Caxton Cato A viij b, Tulle sayth that emonge al other charite the charite of our contre ought to be loued and preferred before al othe[r] charitees. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 216 Dwells in all Heaven charity so dear? 1728Gay Begg. Op. Introd., I cannot too often acknowledge your charity in bringing it upon the stage. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 54, I am one who requires to be treated with kindness and charity.
b. pl. Affections; feelings or acts of affection.
1667Milton P.L. iv. 756 Relations dear, and all the Charities Of Father, Son, and Brother. 1784Cowper Task v. 507 Can he be strenuous in his country's cause, Who slights the charities, for whose dear sake That country, if at all, must be belov'd? 1814Wordsw. Excurs. ix. 238 The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man—like flowers. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) II. 177 Cutting off her members from the charities of domestic life.
3. a. A disposition to judge leniently and hopefully of the character, aims, and destinies of others, to make allowance for their apparent faults and shortcomings; large-heartedness. (But often it amounts barely to fair-mindedness towards people disapproved of or disliked, this being appraised as a magnanimous virtue.)
App. a restricted sense of 1 c, founded upon one of the special characteristics ascribed to Christian charity which ‘thinketh no evil’ 1 Cor. xiii. 6; cf. also 1 Pet. iv. 8 ‘Charity shall cover the multitude of sins’.
1483Caxton Cato 3, I..beseche alle suche that fynde faute or errour that of theyr charyte they correcte and amende hit. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 1 b, I begon after my poore maner to wryte in latyn, but your charite preuayled and letted me. 1634Prynne in Documents agst. Prynne (1877) 42 Your Lordship therefore might have in charity forborne to quarrel with my two syllogismes..till you had produced some better of your owne. 1682Dryden Relig. Laici 198 Charity bids hope the best. 1712Steele Spect. No. 390 ⁋3 She has not the least Charity for any of her Acquaintance. a1718Penn Life Wks. 1726 I. 137 Happy would it be, if where Unity ends, Charity did begin. 1857T. Hood, Jr. Pen & Penc. Pict. 125 We all want a little charity shown us sometimes. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 157 No charity nor good-will can narrow the intellectual breach.
†b. Fairness; equity. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Bochas Prol. v, That their ground, with parfit charitie Conveyed be to their advauntage. 1496Act 12 Hen. VII, c. 6 [Certain foreign nations] have, contrarie to all lawe, reason, charite, right and conscience..made an ordinaunce..that noe Englishman resortyng to the seid Martes shall, etc. 1647N. Bacon Hist. Disc. iii. 8 In Charity, therefore, the English Church in those daies must be of mean repute for outward pomp.
4. Benevolence to one's neighbours, especially to the poor; the practical beneficences in which this manifests itself.
a. as a feeling or disposition; charitableness.
c1200Ormin 1017 Till kariteþess hallȝhe mahht To wirken allmess werrkess. Ibid. 10120 Kariteþess mahhte Iss mikell all unnseȝȝȝenndliȝ. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. xxviii, The Jewes..now upon the breaking up of the Chaldæan Army, repent them of their Charity. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 367 Their Temperance and Gratitude, their Justice and Fidelity, their Humanity and Charity. 1758Johnson Idler No. 4 ⁋1 Charity, or tenderness for the poor..is, I think, only known to those who enjoy..the light of revelation. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 78 Charity—the only thing that we can give away without losing it. 1872E. Peacock Mabel Heron I. viii. 138 Mrs. Heron took the bairn out of charity.
b. as manifested in action: spec. alms-giving. Applied also to the public provision for the relief of the poor, which has largely taken the place of the almsgiving of individuals.[Some would explain quot. 1154 as hospitality, or ‘agape Christianorum, convivium quo amici vel etiam pauperes excipiuntur’ (Du Cange).] 1154O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1137 On al þis yuele time heold Martin abbot his abbotrice—& fand þe munekes & te gestes al þat heom behoued & heold micel carited in þe hus. a1300Cursor M. 28919 When þou sall do þi charite [v.r. giues þi charite]..gif noght so largely till ane Þat þou may gif anoþer nane. 1393Gower Conf. I. 271 To him that wrought charite He was ageinward charitous. 1530Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 12 To lyue of the charitee and almes of the people. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 61 Do poore Tom some charitie. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 119 Doing his Charity effectually, but with a possible privacy. 1737Pope Hor. Epist. ii. i. 231 The boys and girls whom charity maintains. 1863Bright Sp. Amer. 16 June, A dependence upon the charity of their fellow countrymen. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 10 All that the political economist insists upon is that charity shall be really charity, and shall not injure those whom it is intended to aid. 1884F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer i. 4 The poor thing has been living on charity.
c. pl. Acts or works of charity to the poor.
1607Bacon Ess. Riches (Arb.) 240 Deferre not Charities till Death. c1818Campbell Lines on Scene in Bavaria xiv, If the wild winds seem more drear Than man's cold charities below. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Farming Wks. (Bohn) III. 57 He who devotes himself to charities.
5. That which is given in charity; alms.
The phrase do one's charity, in 4 b., easily passed into give one's charity.
a1300Cursor M. 19062 He þam be-heild, bot wel wend he Þai suld him giue sum charite. Petre said til him onan, ‘Gold ne siluer ha we nan’. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 167 Moni Chapeleyns..Chewen heore charite and chiden after more. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. ii. 44 Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth Your charity. 16..Dryden (J.), I never had the confidence to beg a charity. 1694R. L'Estrange (J.) She did ill then to refuse her a charity in her distress. 1711Addison Spect. No. 117 ⁋3 An old Woman applied herself to me for my Charity. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. viii. 222 An Archbishop..leading a panniered mule laden with charities.
6. A bequest, foundation, institution, etc., for the benefit of others, esp. of the poor or helpless.
The term, especially under the influence of legislative enactments, such as the statute on charitable uses 43 Eliz. c. 4, and the various modern Charitable Trusts Acts, has received a very wide application; in general now including institutions, with all manner of objects, for the help of those who are unable to help themselves, maintained by settled funds or voluntary contributions; the uses and restrictions of the term are however very arbitrary, and vary entirely according to fancy or the supposed needs of the moment; chief among the institutions included are hospitals, asylums, foundations for educational purposes, and for the periodical distribution of alms.
1697Evelyn Mem. 10 Mar., I went this evening to see..Christ's Hospital..having never seen a more noble, pious and admirable charity. 1748Butler 6 Serm. (1844) 308 In the first establishment of a public charity. 1788J. Powell Devises (1827) II. 15 Lord Eldon lately held that Jews were properly excluded from the Bedford charity, consisting of a grammar school, etc. 1803Med. Jrnl. VIII. 538 Upon the recommendation of any one for relief by this Charity. Ibid. XV. 549 The advantages of medical charities have usually been confined in large towns. 1843Prescott Mexico vii. v. (1864) 454 With a fate not too frequent in similar charities, [it] has been administered to this day on the noble principles of its foundation. 1853Act 16 & 17 Vict. c. 137 To examine and inquire into all or any charities in England and Wales, and the nature and objects, administration, management, and results thereof, etc. 1862Low (title) Account of Charities in London.
7. A refreshment dispensed in a monastic establishment between meals; a bever. (App. only a modern rendering of med.L. charitas in sense of ‘quævis extraordinaria refectio, maxime illa quæ fiebat extra prandium et cœnam in Monasterio.’ Du Cange.)
1802–43T. D. Fosbroke Brit. Monachism iv. 31 They entered the refectory to receive their charities (cups of wine), while the Collation was reading. Ibid. xlviii. 264 note, These Charities did not consist of wine only..for we find a Charity, consisting of a sallad, seasoned with honey.
8. A popular name of the plant ‘Jacob's ladder’, Polemonium cæruleum.
1741Compl. Fam. Piece i. i. 37 Add to your Buds Betony, Charity, Sanicle, the Tops of St. John's-wort when blown.
9. Phrases.
a. cold as charity: referring to the perfunctory, unfeeling manner in which acts of charity are often done, and public charities administered; (but cf. Matt. xxiv. 12). charity begins at home: used to express the prior claims of the ties of family, friendship, etc., to a man's consideration (cf. 1 Tim. v. 8, etc.).
1382Wyclif Matt. xxiv. 12 The charite of manye schal wexe coold. ― Of Prelates xi. Wks. (1880) 78 Hou schulde he þanne here hem for oþere men, whanne charite schuld bigyne at hem-self. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Matt. xxiv. 12 The charitie of many shal vvaxe cold. 1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. v. ii, Charity and beating begins at home. 1642Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. iv, 'Tis the general complaint of these times, and perhaps of those past, that Charity grows cold. Ibid., Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world: yet is every man his greatest enemy. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. i. (1721) 25 Though Charity should begin at home, it should not end at home. 1795Southey Soldier's Wife, Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity! 1798― Eng. Eclog. v, But charity begins at home, And, Nat, there's our own home in such a way This morning! 1865Trollope Can you forgive Her? xliii, The wind is as cold as charity. We are much more comfortable here.
b. Brother or Sister of Charity: a member of a religious organization devoted to works of charity, of which several have at various times been founded.
1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. iv. xi. 450 The Brothers of Charity were instituted by St. John de Dieu. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lvii, Sisters of Charity..without the romance and the sentiment of sacrifice. 1881M. E. Herbert Edith 247 The other person present was the Superior of the Sisters of Charity.
10. attrib. and Comb. (all referring to 4–6), ‘given or devoted to the furtherance of a charitable object’, as charity ball, charity bazaar, charity concert, charity land, charity matinée, charity money, charity sermon; ‘brought up in a charity-school or on a charitable foundation’, as charity-boy, charity-child, charity-girl; charity-bred adj.; charity-bob (see bob n.4); charity-box, a money-box for collecting contributions to a charitable object; Charity Commission, Commissioners, a board created by the Charitable Trust Act of 1853 to control the administration of charitable trusts, with powers as to the management, re-organization, application, etc., of any of the funded charities; charity-house, a house or building devoted to a charitable object; charity walk, a sponsored walk for charity (see sponsored ppl. a. 2); charity walker, one who takes part in a charity walk.
1857Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life (1858) III. 62 Three assemblies and a charity ball in the winter. 1882Life 7 Dec. 1018/1 A grand *Charity Ball under the gracious Patronage of T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Connaught.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxix. 354 Martha painted flowers exquisitely, and furnished half the *charity-bazaars in the county. 1964C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. vi. 237, I was to play the third part and it was to be given at some charity bazaar.
1782Burney Hist. Mus. II. 72 The plate or *charity-box is held out to them.
1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I.306 Among the *charity-boys there are abundance of bad ones that swear and curse about. 1838–9Dickens O. Twist 21/2 A big charity-boy. 1841Emerson Ess. Ser. i. ii. (1876) 55 Let him not..skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy.
a1845Hood Tale of Trump. liv, Nay, happy the urchin—*Charity-bred.
1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 306 They bring up their *charity-children to handicrafts, as well as trades. 1861Thackeray Four Georges (Hoppe), In all Christendom there is no such sight as Charity Children's Day [at St. Paul's].
1864M. B. Chesnut Diary 21 Sept. (1949) 435 At the *charity concert, here were the whole party. 1969C. Carfax Silence with Voices xvi. 115, I sold her a programme at a charity concert.
1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. (Hoppe) Solecisms and faults of spelling such as a *charity-girl would now be ashamed to commit.
1758Massie (title) A plan for the Establishment of *Charity Houses for Exposed or Deserted Women and Girls. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Land Wks. (Bohn) II. 16 It [England] is stuffed full..with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals, and charity-houses.
1887Hazell Ann. Cycl. 87/2 The secretary to the [Charity] Commission for the time being is a corporation sole, by the name of ‘The Official Trustee of *Charity Lands’.
1921G. B. Shaw Let. (1952) 220 Gertrude Kingston..is going to play Catherine at a *charity matinee.
1711Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 695 There was remaining..of the *charity money gathered..upwards of 2000{pstlg}. 1840Malcolm Trav. 32/1, I regretted to see so much charity-money bestowed on Portuguese schools.
1700R. Holland (title) The Good Samaritan; a *Charity Sermon. 1817Syd. Smith Lett. cxxiii, I am going to preach a charity sermon next Sunday.
1983Jinty Ann. 1984 62/2 The school are doing a *charity walk and you're invited to join in.
1976Shooting Times & Country Mag. 18–24 Nov. 28/2 (Advt.), Ideal present for ramblers, *charity walkers, [etc.].
▸ charity shop n. † (a) U.S. a workshop offering employment to the poor, as part of a charitable programme (obs. rare); (b) orig. and chiefly Brit. a shop which sells goods, predominantly second-hand ones donated by members of the public, to raise money for (a particular) charity.
1853S. Colwell New Themes for Protestant Clergymen 339 The public works, *charity-shops, farm-labour distribution of lands to the poor. 1963Times 5 Nov. 1/4 Cards on sale at Combined Charity Shop. 2003MX (Melbourne) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 17 Miniskirts from our 20s should be sent to the charity shop.
▸ charity line n. Basketball slang = charity stripe n. at Additions.
1923Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 22 Jan. 8/1 Locke..was in equally good form making 5 out of 7 trys from the *charity line. 2006G. Maracek Full Court ii. 23 Al was a perfect 8 for 8 from the free throw line... Pettit had hit 13–19 from the charity line.
▸ charity stripe n. Basketball slang the free-throw line.
1926Washington Post 29 Dec. 15/6 Eastern made three of eleven free throws. These figures plainly tell the story of Eastern's superiority in all departments except from the *charity stripes. 2004K. Atkins Basketball Offenses & Plays xiv. 239 Offensively, the coach wants players to take advantage of every opportunity from the charity stripe. |