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Press
King James Dictionary
or PRESS, L.pressus.
1. To urge with force or weight a word of extensive use, denoting the application of any power, physical or moral, to something that is to be moved or affected. We press the ground with the feet when we walk we press the couch on which we repose we press substances with the hands, fingers or arms the smith presses iron with his vise we are pressed with the weight of arguments or of cares, troubles and business.
2. To squeeze to crush as, to press grapes. Genesis 40
3. To drive with violence to hurry as, to press a horse in motion, or in a race.
4. To urge to enforce to inculcate with earnestness as, to press divine truth on an audience.
5. To embrace closely to hug.
Leucothoe shook
And press'd Palemon closer in her arms.
6. To force into service, particularly into naval service to impress.
7. To straiten to distress as, to be pressed with want or with difficulties.
8. To constrain to compel to urge by authority or necessity.
The posts that rode on mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. Esther 8
9. To urge to impose by importunity.
He pressed a letter upon me, within this hour, to deliver to you.
10. To urge or solicit with earnestness or importunity. He pressed me to accept of his offer.
11. To urge to constrain.
Paul was pressed in spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. Acts 18
Wickedness pressed with conscience, forecasteth grievous things.
12. To squeeze for making smooth as cloth or paper.
Press differs from drive and strike, in usually denoting a slow or continued application of force whereas drive and strike denote a sudden impulse of force.
PRESS, To urge or strain in motion to urge forward with force.
I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3
Th' insulting victor presses on the more.
1. To bear on with force to encroach.
On superior powers
Were we to press, inferior might on ours.
2. To bear on with force to crowd to throng.
Thronging crowds press on you as you pass.
3. To approach unseasonably or importunately.
Nor press too near the throne.
4. To urge with vehemence and importunity.
He pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in to him. Genesis 19
5. To urge by influence or moral force.
When arguments press equally in matters indifferent, the safest method is to give up ourselves to neither.
6. To push with force as, to press against the door.
PRESS, n.
1. An instrument or machine by which any body is squeezed, crushed or forced into a more compact form as a wine-press, cider-press or cheese-press.
2. A machine for printing a printing-press. Great improvements have been lately made in the construction of presses.
3. The art or business of printing and publishing. A free press is a great blessing to a free people a licentious press is a curse to society.
4. A crowd a throng a multitude of individuals crowded together.
And when they could not come nigh to him for the press--Mark 2 .
5. The act of urging or pushing forward.
Which in their throng and press to the last hold,
Confound themselves.
6. A wine-vat or cistern. Haggai 2
7. A case of closet for the safe keeping of garments.
8. Urgency urgent demands of affairs as a press of business.
9. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy for impress.
Press of sail, in navigation, is as much sail as the state of the wind will permit.
Liberty of the press, in policy, is the free right of publishing books, pamphlets or papers without previous restraint or the unrestrained right which every citizen enjoys of publishing his thoughts and opinions, subject only to punishment for publishing what is pernicious to morals or to the peace of the state.
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 'Press'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/press.html.
