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Make
King James Dictionary
or MAKE, pret. and pp. made.
1. To compel to constrain.
They should be made to rise at an early hour.
2. To form of materials to fashion to mold into shape to cause to exist in a different form, or as a distinct thing.
He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. Exodus 32
God not only made, but created not only made the work, but the materials.
3. To create to cause to exist to form from nothing. God made the materials of the earth and of all worlds.
4. To compose to constitute as parts, materials or ingredients united in a whole. These several sums make the whole amount.
The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,
Make but one temple for the deity.
5. To form by art.
And art with her contending, doth aspire
T'excel the natural with made delights.
6. To produce or effect, as the agent.
Call for Sampson, that he may make us sport. Judges 16
7. To produce, as the cause to procure to obtain. Good tillage is necessary to make good crops.
Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19
8. To do to perform to execute as, to make a journey to make a long voyage.
9. To cause to have any quality, as by change or alteration. Wealth may make a man proud beauty may make a woman vain a due sense of human weakness should make us humble.
10. To bring into any state or condition to constitute.
See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. Exodus 7
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Exodus 2
11. To contract to establish as, to make friendship.
12. To keep as, to make abode.
13. To raise to good fortune to secure in riches or happiness as when it is said, he is made for this world.
Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.
14. To suffer.
He accuses Neptune unjustly, who makes shipwreck a second time.
15. To incur as, to make a loss. Improper.
16. To commit to do.
I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I made. Little used.
17. To intend or to do to purpose to do.
Gomez, what mak'st thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? Not used.
We now say, what doest thou here?
18. To raise, as, profit to gain to collect as, to make money in trade or by husbandry to make an estate by steady industry.
19. To discover to arrive in sight of a seaman's phrase, They made the land at nine o'clock on the larboard bow,distant five leagues.
20. To reach to arrive at as, to make a port or harbor a seaman's phrase.
21. To gain by advance as, to make little way with a head wind we made our way to the next village. This phrase often implies difficulty.
22. To provide as, to make a dinner or entertainment.
23. To put or place as, to make a difference between strict right and expedience.
24. To turn to convert, as to use.
Whate'er they catch,
Their fury makes an instrument of war.
25. To represent. He is not the fool you make him, that is, as your representation exhibits him.
26. To constitute to form. It is melancholy to think that sensual pleasure makes the happiness of a great part of mankind.
27. To induce to cause. Self-confidence makes a man rely too much on his own strength and resources.
28. To put into a suitable or regular form for use as, to make a bed.
29. To fabricate to forge. He made the story himself.
30. To compose to form and write as, to make verses or an oration.
31. To cure to dry and prepare for preservation as, to make hay.
To make amends, to make good to give adequate compensation to replace the value or amount of loss.
To make account of, to esteem to regard.
To make away, to kill to destroy.
1. To make free with, to treat with freedom to treat without ceremony.make good, to maintain, to defend.
I'll either die, or I'll make good the place.
1. To fulfill to accomplish as, to make good one's word, promise or engagement.
2. To make compensation for to supply an equivalent as, to make good a loss or damage.
To make light of, to consider as of no consequence to treat with indifference or contempt.
They made light of it, and went their way. Matthew 22
To make love,
To make suit, to court to attempt to gain the favor or affection.
To make merry, to feast to be joyful or jovial.
To make much of, to treat with fondness or esteem to consider as of great value, or as giving great pleasure.
To make of, to understand. He knows not what to make of the news, that is, he does not well understand it he knows not how to consider or view it.
1. To produce from to effect.
I am astonished that those who have appeared against this paper, have made so very little of it.
2. To consider to account to esteem.
Makes she no more of me than of a slave?
To make over, to transfer the title of to convey to alienate. He made over his estate in trust or in fee.
To make out, to learn to discover to obtain a clear understanding of. I cannot make out the meaning or sense of this difficult passage. Antiquaries are not able to make out the inscription on this medal.
1. To prove to evince to establish by evidence or argument. The plaintiff, not being able to make out his case, withdrew the suit.
In the passages from divines, most of the reasonings which make out both my propositions are already suggested.
2. To furnish to find or supply. He promised to pay, but was not able to make out the money or the whole sum.
To make sure of, to consider as certain.
1. To secure to one's possession as, to make sure of the game.
To make up, to collect into a sum or mass as, to make up the amount of rent to make up a bundle or package.
1. To reconcile to compose as, to make up a difference or quarrel.
2. To repair as, to make up a hedge. Ezekiel 13 .
3. To supply what is wanting. A dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.
4. To compose, as ingredients or parts.
Oh, he was all made up of love and charms!
The parties among us are made up of moderate whigs and presbyterians.
5. To shape as, to make up a mass into pills.
6. To assume a particular form of features as, to make up a face whence, to make up a lip, is to pout.
7. To compensate to make good as, to make up a loss.
8. To settle to adjust, or to arrange for settlement as, to make up accounts.
9. To determine to bring to a definite conclusion as, to make up one's mind.
In seamen's language, to make sail, to increase the quantity of sail already extended.
To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost.
To make water, to leak.
To make words, to multiply words.
MAKE, To tend to proceed to move. He made towards home. The tiger made at the sportsman. Formerly authors used to make way, to make on, to make forth, to make about but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make towards.
1. To contribute to have effect. This argument makes nothing in his favor. He believes wrong to be right, and right to be wrong, when it makes for his advantage.
2. To rise to flow toward land as, the tide makes fast.
To make as if, to show to appear to carry appearance.
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. Joshua 8
To make away with, to kill to destroy.
To make for, to move towards to direct a course towards as, we apprehended a tempest approaching, and made for a harbor.
1. To tend to advantage to favor. A war between commercial nations makes for the interest of neutrals.
To make against, to tend to injury. This argument makes against his cause.
To make out, to succeed to have success at last. He made out to reconcile the contending parties.
To make up, to approach. He made up to us with boldness.
To make up for, to compensate to supply by an equivalent.
Have you a supply of friends to make up for those who are gone?
To make up with, to settle differences to become friends.
To make with, to concur.
MAKE, n. Structure texture constitution of parts in a body. It may sometimes be synonymous with shape or form, but more properly, the word signifies the manner in which the parts of a body are united as a man of slender make, or feeble make,
Is our perfection of so frail a make
As every plot can undermine and shake?
MAKE, n. Eng. match L. par. A companion a mate.
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 'Make'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/m/make.html.
