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Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
the Third Week of Advent
the Third Week of Advent
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GREAT, a. L. crassus.
1. Large in bulk or dimensions a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual as a great body a great house a great farm.
2. Being of extended length or breadth as a great distance a great lake.
3. Large in number as a great many a great multitude.
4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing as great fear great love great strength great wealth great power great influence great folly.
5. Long continued as a great while.
6. Important weighty as a great argument a great truth a great event a thing of no great consequence it is no great matter.
7. Chief principal as the great seal of England.
8. Chief of vast power and excellence supreme illustrious as the great God the great Creator.
9. Vast extensive wonderful admirable.
Great are thy works. Jehovah.
10. Possessing large or strong powers of mind as a great genius.
11. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge as a great philosopher or botanist a great scholar.
12. Distinguished by rank, office or power elevated eminent as a great lord the great men of the nation the great Mogul Alexander the great.
13. Dignified in aspect,mien or manner.
Amidst the crowd she walks serenely great.
14. Magnanimous generous of elevated sentiments high-minded. He has a great soul.
15. Rich sumptuous magnificent. He disdained not to appear at great tables. A great feast or entertainment.
16. Vast sublime as a great conception or idea.
17. Dignified noble.
Nothing can be great which is not right.
18. Swelling proud as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
19. Chief principal much traveled as a great road. The ocean is called the great highway of nations.
20. Pregnant teeming as great with young.
21. Hard difficult. It is no great matter to live in peace with meek people.
22. Familiar intimate. Vulgar.
23. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 1:6 .
24. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely and great grandson, great great grandson. &c.
25. Superior preeminent as great chamberlain great marshal.
The sense of great is to be understood by the things it is intended to qualify. Great pain or wrath is violent pain or wrath great love is ardent love great peace is entire peace a great name is extensive renown a great evil or sin, is a sin of deep malignity, &c.
GREAT, n. The whole the gross the lump or mass as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great.
1. People of rank or distinction. The poor envy the great, and the great despise the poor.
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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 'Great'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/great.html.
Entry for 'Great'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/great.html.
