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the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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GNAT, n. nat. A small insect, or rather a genus of insects, the Culex, whose long cylindric body is composed of eight rings. They have six legs and their mouth is formed by a flexible sheath, inclosing bristles pointed like stings. The sting is a tube containing five or six spicula of exquisite fineness, dentated or edged. The most troublesome of this genus is the musketoe.

1. Any thing proverbially small.

Ye blind guides, who strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Matthew 23

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Entry for 'Gnat'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​g/gnat.html.
 
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