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Fine
King James Dictionary
or FINE, a.
1. Small thin slender minute of very small diameter as a fine thread fine silk a fine hair. We say also, fine sand, fine particles.
2. Subtil thin tenuous as, fine spirits evaporate a finer medium opposed to a grosser.
3. Thin keep smoothly sharp as the fine edge of a razor.
4. Made of fine threads not coarse as fine linen or cambric.
5. Clear pure free from feculence or foreign matter as fine gold or silver wine is not good till fine.
6. Refined.
Those things were too fine to be fortunate, and succeed in all parts.
7. Nice delicate perceiving or discerning minute beauties or deformities as a fine taste a fine sense.
8. Subtil artful dextrous. See Finess.
9. Subtil sly fraudulent.
10. Elegant beautiful in thought.
To call the trumpet by the name of the metal was fine.
11. Very handsome beautiful with dignity.
The lady has a fine person, or a fine face.
12. Accomplished elegant in manners. He was one of the finest gentlemen of his age.
13. Accomplished in learning excellent as a fine scholar.
14. Excellent superior brilliant or acute as a man of fine genius.
15. Amiable noble ingenuous excellent as a man of a fine mind.
16. Showy splendid elegant as a range of fine buildings a fine house or garden a fine view.
17. Ironically, worthy of contemptuous notice eminent for bad qualities.
That same knave, Ford, her husband, has the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy.
Fine Arts or polite arts, are the arts which depend chiefly on the labors of the mind or imagination, and whose object is pleasure as poetry, music, painting and sculpture.
The uses of this word are so numerous and indefinite, as to preclude a particular definition of each. In general, fine, in popular language, expresses whatever is excellent, showy or magnificent.
FINE, n. This word is the basis of finance, but I have not found it, in its simple form, in any modern language, except the English. The word seems to be the L. finis, and the application of it to pecuniary compensation seems to have proceeded from its feudal use, in the transfer of lands, in which a final agreement or concord was made between the lord and his vassal.
1. In a feudal sense, a final agreement between persons concerning lands or rents, or between the lord and his vassal, prescribing the conditions on which the latter should hold his lands.
2. A sum of money paid to the lord by his tenant, for permission to alienate or transfer his lands to another. This in England was exacted only from the king's tenants in capite.
3. A sum of money paid to the king or state by way of penalty for an offense a mulet a pecuniary punishment. Fines are usually prescribed by statute, for the several violations of law or the limit is prescribed, beyond which the judge cannot impose a fine for a particular offense.
In fine. L. in and finis. In the end or conclusion to conclude to sum up all.
FINE, See Fine, the adjective.
1. To clarify to refine to purify to defecate to free from feculence or foreign matter as, to fine wine.
This is the most general use of this word.
2. To purify, as a metal as, to fine gold or silver. In this sense, we now generally use refine but fine is proper.
Job 28 . Proverbs 17 .
3. To make less coarse as, to fine grass. Not used.
4. To decorate to adorn. Not in use.
FINE, See Fine, the noun.
1. To impose on one a pecuniary penalty, payable to the government, for a crime or breach of law to set a fine on by judgment of a court to punish by fine. The trespassers were fined ten dollars and imprisoned a month.
2. To pay a fine. Not used.
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.
Entry for 'Fine'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/fine.html.
