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Still
King James Dictionary
or STILL, G., to put, set, place, Gr., to send, and with style, stool, stall.
1. To stop, as motion or agitation to check or restrain to make quiet as, to still the raging sea.
2. T stop, as noise to silence.
With his name the mothers still their babes.
3. To appease to calm to quiet as tumult, agitation or excitement as, to still the passions.
STILL, a.
1. Silent uttering no sound applicable to animals or to things. The company or the man is still the air is still the sea is still.
2. Quiet calm not disturbed by noise as a still evening.
3. Motionless as, to stand still to lie or sit still.
4. Quiet calm not agitated as a still atmosphere.
STILL, n. Calm silence freedom from noise as the still of midnight. A poetic word.
STILL, adv.
1. To this time till now.
It hath been anciently reported, and is still received. Still here denotes this time set or fixed.
2. Nevertheless notwithstanding.
The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.
Still here signifies set, given, and refers to the whole of the first clause of the sentence. The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation that fact being given or set, or notwithstanding, he is afraid, &c.
3. It precedes or accompanies words denoting increase of degree.
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively we consider them, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
This is not correct.
4. Always ever continually.
Trade begets trade, and people go much where many people have already gone so men run still to a crowd in the streets, though only to see.
The fewer still you name, you wound the more.
5. After that after what is stated.
In the primitive church, such as by fear were compelled to sacrifice to strange gods, after repented, and kept still the office of preaching the gospel.
6. In continuation.
And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, still and anon cheerd up the heavy time.
STILL, n. L., to drop. See Distill. A vessel, boiler or copper used in the distillation of liquors as vapor ascending of the still. The word is used in a more general sense for the vessel and apparatus. A still house is also called a still.
STILL, L. To expel spirit from liquor by heat and condense it in a refrigeratory to distill. See Distill.
STILL, To drop. Not in use. See Distill.
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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 'Still'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/still.html.
