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Describe
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DESCRIBE, L. To write.
1. To delineate or mark the form or figure as, to describe a circle by the compasses.
2. To make or exhibit a figure by motion as, a star describes a circle or an ellipsis in the heavens.
3. To show or represent to others in words to communicate the resemblance of a thing, by naming its nature, form or properties. The poet describes the Trojan horse. The historian describes the battle of Pharsalia. The moralist describes the effects of corrupt manners. The geographer describes countries and cities.
4. To represent by signs. A deaf and dumb man may describe a distant object. Our passions may be described by external motions.
5. To draw a plan to represent by lines and other marks on paper, or other material as, to describe the surface of the earth by a map or chart.
6. To define laxly.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Describe'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/describe.html.
Entry for 'Describe'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/describe.html.
