Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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FREE, n. Heb. See Frank.
1. Being at liberty not being under necessity or restraint, physical or moral a word of general application to the body, the will or mind, and to corporations.
2. In government, not enslaved not in a state of vassalage or dependence subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord as a free state, nation or people.
3. Instituted by a free people, or by consent or choice of those who are to be subjects, and securing private rights and privileges by fixed laws and principles not arbitrary or despotic as a free constitution or government.
There can be no free government without a democratical branch in the constitution.
4. Not imprisoned, confined or under arrest as, the prisoner is set free.
5. Unconstrained unrestrained not under compulsion or control. A man is free to pursue his own choice he enjoys free will.
6. Permitted allowed open not appropriated as, places of honor and confidence are free to all we seldom hear of a commerce perfectly free.
7. Not obstructed as, the water has a free passage or channel the house is open to a free current of air.
8. Licentious unrestrained. The reviewer is very free in his censures.
9. Open candid frank ingenuous unreserved as, we had a free conversation together.
Will you be free and candid to your friend?
10. Liberal in expenses not parsimonious as a free purse a man is free to give to all useful institutions.
11. Gratuitous not gained by importunity or purchase. He made him a free offer of his services. It is a free gift. The salvation of men is of free grace.
12. Clear of crime or offense guiltless innocent.
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
13. Not having feeling or suffering clear exempt with from as free from pain or disease free from remorse.
14. Not encumbered with as free from a burden.
15. Open to all, without restriction or without expense as a free school.
16. Invested with franchises enjoying certain immunities with of as a man free of the city of London.
17. Possessing without vassalage or slavish conditions as free of his farm.
18. Liberated from the government or control of parents, or of a guardian or master. A son or an apprentice, when of age, is free.
19. Ready eager not dull acting without spurring or shipping as a free horse.
20. Genteel charming. Not in use.
FREE,
1. To remove from a thing any encumbrance or obstruction to disengage from to rid to strip to clear as, to free the body from clothes to free the feet from fetters to free a channel from sand.
2. To set at liberty to rescue or release from slavery, captivity or confinement to loose. The prisoner is freed from arrest.
3. To disentangle to disengage.
4. To exempt.
He that is dead is freed from sin. Romans 6 .
5. To manumit to release from bondage as, to free a slave.
6. To clear from water, as a ship by pumping.
7. To release from obligation or duty.
To free from or free of, is to rid of, by removing, in any manner.
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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 'Free'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/free.html.
Entry for 'Free'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/free.html.
