Suffered definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SUF'FERED, pp. Borne; undergone ... 1913 Dictionary Suffer Suf"fer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suffered; p. pr. & vb. n. Suffering.] [OE. suffren, soffren, OF. sufrir ...
... 0 (2005) v 1: undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom" [syn: suffer, endure] [ant: enjoy] 2: undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock ... brook, abide, suffer, put up] 5: get worse; "His grades suffered" 6: feel pain or be in pain [syn: suffer, hurt ... suffers in translation" [syn: suffer, lose] Merriam Webster's verb (suffered; suffering) Etymology: Middle English suffren, from Anglo-French suffrir, from ... or be subjected to (pain, loss, grief, defeat, change, etc.) (suffered banishment). 3 tr. put up with; tolerate (does not ...
... compelling them to renounce their principles. Historians enumerate ten persecutions suffered by the Christians, beginning with that of Nero, A.D ... earliest of the Pauline Epistles, it is said, "Ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they ... was not much purely Gentilepersecution: at that time the persecution suffered by the Christian church was chiefly Jewish. There were, however ... 40); and, even before that time, Paul and Barnabas had suffered much at Iconium and at Lystra (Ac 14:5,19 ... was this comforting exhortation to the case of those who suffered in the Neronic persecution. The description which Tacitus gives is ... indiscriminately, and Roman citizens who were true to Christ had suffered unto death. It is to these that reference is ...
... return of an equivalent for any thing given, done or suffered; as, to recompense a person for services, for fidelity or ... 1. An equivalent returned for any thing given, done or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; as a recompense for services, for damages ... 15th century an equivalent or a return for something done, suffered, or given ; compensation < offered in recompense for injuries > Oxford Reference ... F. r['e]compense.] An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return. To me belongeth vengeance ... are given it as a reward or because you have suffered. (FORMAL) He demands no financial recompense for his troubles... Substantial ...
... 1913 Dictionary Suffer Suf"fer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suffered; p. pr. & vb. n. Suffering.] [OE. suffren, soffren, OF. sufrir ... is "to permit," "to allow," "to give leave to": "Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her ... 2) "To experience," "to go through,"' "to endure": "I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him" (Mt 27:19). A woman "had suffered many things of many physicians" (Mr 5:26). Other common ... Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they have suffered these things?" (Lu 13:2). (5) "To sustain loss": "If ...
... receive, have] 16: undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock ... a shock' than 'we ate ice cream', or 'he's suffered a shock'. Come and have a meal with us tonight ... heard" for "after that ye heard" (Eph 1:13); "having suffered before," for "even after that we had suffered" (1Th 2:2); "and thus, having," for "so after he ...
... a (polu plethos = Tac. multitudo ingens) of the Roman Christians suffered (dia zelos), "through jealousy or strife." The most natural and ... not yet distinct from Jews shared in the persecutions and suffered, not as Christians, but as Jews. But Tacitus is too ... act, but part of a general policy under which others suffered. His reign was a return to ancient principles. He attempted ... to stifle the liberty of conscience for which it had suffered so much, and orthodoxy began its long reign of intolerance ...
... may be handed down to remotest posterity. The land has suffered from a succession of disasters, the greatest that could befall ... a revolt the resident Judeans in the land of Edom suffered the violence referred to in Joe 3:19. Moreover, the ... word said of the Babylonians, at whose hands Israel had suffered so much? So strongly, indeed, are these objections felt by ... be applicable to a late time, after the land had suffered many hostile invasions. Yet it can well be understood how ...
... 3:25,26; 5:8). (d) Christ, who was sinless, suffered vicariously for sinful men. His death was not due to ... above. 4. Petrine and Johannine Teaching: Peter asserts that Christ suffered vicariously (1Pe 2:22-24), who, although He "did no ... bare our sins in his body upon the tree"; who "suffered for sins once, the righteous for (huper, not anti) the ...
... made strides toward reconstructing a legitimate, representative government but has suffered some civil strife. Puntland disputes its border with Somaliland as ... famine conditions, but when the UN withdrew in 1995, having suffered significant casualties, order still had not been restored. The mandate ... became the independent Republic of Somalia. Since then it has suffered political and civil strife, incl. military dictatorship, civil wars, drought ...
... a declaration in writing, expressing some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person ... a declaration in writing stating a wrong a complainant has suffered from a defendant or stating a breach of law by ... declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person ...
... a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered" (Heb 5:8). In 2Co 10:5, the phrase signifies ... Son, yet learned (he) obedience by the things which he suffered" (emathen aph' hon epathen ten hupakoen); Php 2:6,8 ... an ensample, but leaves as his characteristic thought that Christ "suffered for sins once .... put to death in the flesh" (1Pe ...
... conceal it. 2. Darkness; obscuration. We say,his glory has suffered an eclipse. All the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. ECLIPSE, v.t. eclips ... obscuration; gloom; darkness. All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. --Sir W. Raleigh. As ...
... towards one. 1. A contest; a struggle. 2. Pluck; violence suffered. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the act of ... a wrestling pull. --Carew. 3. A pluck; loss or violence suffered. [Poetic] Two pulls at once; His lady banished, and a ... a back muscle and could barely kick the ball... He suffered a pulled calf muscle. VERB: V n, V-ed 12 ...
... God-ward significance of his suffering (Isa 53). The Servant suffered vicariously as an atonement for the sins of the people ... and death of Christ is now explicitly stated. Christ has suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous ... which opens up a way of access to Him; He suffered "that he might bring us to God" (3:18), and ...