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Fit
King James Dictionary
or FIT, n. L. peto, impeto, to assult, or to Eng. pet, and primarily to denote a rushing on or attach, or a start. See fit, suitable.
1. The invasion, exacerbation or paroxysm of a disease. We apply the word to the return of an ague, after intermission, as a cold fit. We apply it to the first attack, or to the return of other diseases, as a fit of the gout or stone and in general, to a disease however continued, as a fit of sickness.
2. A sudden and violent attack of disorder, in which the body is often convulsed, and sometimes senseless as a fit of apoplexy or epilepsy hysteric fits.
3. Any short return after intermission a turn a period or interval. He moves by fits and starts.
By fits my swelling grief appears.
4. A temporary affection or attack as a fit of melancholy, or of grief a fit of pleasure.
5. Disorder distemperature.
6. Anciently, a song, or part of a song a strain a canto.
FIT, a. This is from the root of Eng. pass pat. In L. competo, whence compatible, signifies properly to meet or to fall on, hence to suit or be fit, from peto. This is probably the same word. The primary sense is to come to, to fall on, hence to meet, to extend to, to be close, to suit. To come or fall, is the primary sense of time or season.
1. Suitable convenient meet becoming.
Is it fit to say to a king, thou art wicked? Job 34 .
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Colossians 3 .
2. Qualified as men of valor fit for war.
No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Luke 9 .
FIT,
1. To adapt to suit to make suitable.
The carpenter - marketh it out like a line, he fitteth it with planes. Isaiah 44 .
2. To accommodate a person with any thing as, the tailor fits his customer with a coat. The original phrase is, he fits a coat to his customer. But the phrase implies also furnishing, providing a thing suitable for another.
3. To prepare to put in order for to furnish with things proper or necessary as, to fit a ship for a long voyage. Fit yourself for action or defense.
4. To qualify to prepare as, to fit a student for college.
To fit out, to furnish to equip to supply with necessaries or means as, to fit out a privateer.
To fit up, to prepare to furnish with things suitable to make proper for the reception or use of any person as, to fit up a house for a guest.
FIT,
1. To be proper or becoming.
Nor fits it to prolong the feast.
2. To suit or be suitable to be adapted. His coat fits very well. But this is an elliptical phrase.
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 'Fit'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/fit.html.
