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Public
King James Dictionary
or PUB'LIC, a. L.publicus, from the root of populus, people that is, people-like.
1. Pertaining to a nation, state or community extending to a whole people as a public law, which binds the people of a nation or state, as opposed to a private statute or resolve, which respects an individual or a corporation only. Thus we say, public welfare, public good, public calamity, public service, public property.
2. Common to many current or circulated among people of all classes general as public report public scandal.
3. Open notorious exposed to all persons without restriction.
Joseph her husband being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. Matthew 1
4. Regarding the community directed to the interest of a nation, state or community as public spirit public mindedness opposed to private or selfish.
5. Open for general entertainment as a public house.
6. Open to common use as a public road.
7. In general, public expresses something common to mankind at large, to a nation, state, city or town, and is opposed to private, which denotes what belongs to an individual, to a family, to a company or corporation.
Public law, is often synonymous with the law of nations.
PUB'LIC, n. The general body of mankind or of a nation, state or community the people, indefinitely.
The public is more disposed to censure than to praise.
In this passage, public is followed by a verb in the singular number but being a noun of multitude, it is more generally followed by a plural verb the public are.
In public, in open view before the people at large not in private or secrecy.
In private grieve, but with a careless scorn,
In public seem to triumph, not to mourn.
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 'Public'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/public.html.
