Very definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary VER'Y, a. [L. verus.] True; real. Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. Genesis 27. He that repeateth a matter, separateth very friends. Proverbs 17. VER'Y, adv. As an adverb, or modifier of adjectives and adverbs, very denotes in a great degree, an eminent or high degree, but not generally the highest; as a very great mountain; a very bright sun; a very cold day; a very pernicious ...
Very Reverend definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... and superiors of some religious houses) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Very Ver"y, a. [Compar. Verier; superl. Veriest.] [OE. verai, verray ... Verdict, Verity.] True; real; actual; veritable. Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. --Gen. xxvii. 21. He that covereth ... transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. --Prov. xvii. 9. The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness. --Milton. I looked ... of public service or public ornament to be real and very justice. --Burke. Note: Very is sometimes used to make ...
... inspiration (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which extends to the very words and forms of expression of the divine message. Collin ... the infallible communication of his mind and will, in the very manner and words in which it was originally given. As ... the procession of the years, until they have acquired a very wide and varied use. Underlying all their use, however, is ... misleading mistranslation. For the Greek word in this passage--theopneustos--very distinctly does not mean "inspired of God." This phrase is ... of God. He had had good teachers; and from his very infancy he had been, by his knowledge of the Scriptures ... described as "bearing" them. The term here used is a very specific one. It is not to be confounded with ...
... great degree or extent; "she's much better now" 2: very; "he was much annoyed" 3: to a very great degree or extent; "I feel a lot better"; "we enjoyed ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a great deal" [syn: a lot, lots, a good deal, a great deal, much, very much] 4: (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for ... to a great degree or extent ; considerably < much happier > (2) very < much gratified > b. (1) frequently, often < much away from ...
... MI'GHTY, a. Having great bodily strength or physical power; very strong or vigorous; as a mighty arm. 1. Very strong; valiant; bold; as a mighty man of valor. Judges 6. 2. Very powerful; having great command. Cush begat Nimrod; he began to ... be a mighty one on the earth. Genesis 10. 3. Very strong in numbers; as a mighty nation. Genesis 18. 4. Very strong or great in corporeal power; very able. Wo to them that are mighty to drink ...
... these copies of the text itself may be added the very important and even more ancient evidence of the versions of ... Syria, Asia Minor, Africa, Italy, and Greece, dating from the very age of the apostles and their immediate successors. It thus ... are both so many and so widely scattered that these very facts more than any others have embarrassed the final determination ... New Testament. 1. Autographs of the New Testament Writers: Until very recent times it has not been customary to take up ... text. It is written on 147 1/2 leaves of very thin vellum in four narrow columns of 48 lines each ... manuscript of the Greek New Testament; 4th century. Written on very fine vellum, the leaves nearly square in shape, 10 ...
... known as the "Mediterranean region," a region characterized climatically by very dry, hot summers and fairly mild winters. Plants here grow ... Melia Azedaracht) called in Arabic zinzilukt, a stranger from India, very extensively grown, the so-called "Spanish pepper tree" (Schinus molle), the Casuarina stricta from Australia, the very common ailanthus (A. glandulosus), a native of China, and many ... are cut, then the trunks are leveled, and finally the very roots are dug out of the soil. At a greater ... s rain, until the bare rock--never on the hillslopes very far from the surface--is laid open to the sky ... through the soil to the sources of the springs--never very deep in Palestine--now rapidly runs down the valley ...
Very light definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a colored flare fired from a Very pistol [syn: Very light, Very-light] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Edward W. Very died 1910 American naval officer Date: 1917 a pyrotechnic signal ... for signalling or temporarily illuminating the surroundings. Etymology: E. W. Very, Amer. inventor d. 1910
... Book of Joe has been assigned by different authorities to very various dates, ranging over 4 or 5 centuries; but, as ... it comes to be a question whether the book is very early or very late, in fact, whether Joe is perhaps the very earliest or the very last or among the last of the writing prophets. This ... dates. (1) Place in the Canon. An argument for a very early date is based upon the place of the ...
... formation of a number of hypotheses. Some of these are very widely held, but unanimity has not been attained, and recent ... Yet the view just sketched has been held by a very numerous and influential school during recent years, nor is it ... the beginning of a new critical development which makes it very difficult to speak positively of modern critical views. Kuenen has ... Old Testament criticism were unalterably settled, recent writers adopt a very different tone: e.g. Sellin (1910) says, "We stand in ... along new lines and in this way may exercise a very potent influence on the future course of Old Testament study ... D? Why is it believed that these documents are of very late date, in one case subsequent to the exile? ( ...
... utmost degree. This gay charm--hath beguiled me To the very heart of loss. To get or learn by heart, to ... the heart on, to fix the desires on; to be very desirous of obtaining or keeping; to be very fond of. To set the heart at rest, to make ... heart of stone a stern or cruel nature. heart-rending very distressing. heart-rendingly in a heart-rending way. heart's ... by sorrow. (b) To bring almost to completion; to finish very nearly; -- said of anything undertaken; as, he has broken the ... fix the desires on; to long for earnestly; to be very fond of. To take heart of grace, to take ...
very much definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: to a very great degree or extent; "I feel a lot better"; "we enjoyed ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a great deal" [syn: a lot, lots, a good deal, a great deal, much, very much]
Very pistol definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a pistol for firing Very-light flares [syn: Very pistol, Verey pistol] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1915 a pistol for firing Very lights Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a gun for firing a Very light.
... of overruling such evidence may well arise. And it may very well arise without calling in question in the slightest degree ... of questioned passages; for an acquisition of historical perspective comes very late in intellectual evolution, particularly--though not only--in the ... with the harvests (Ex 23:16). Of course, Moses may very well have given commands that looked to the future, but ... Canaan and not the wilderness. But, now, the life is very primitive life. Flocks are of great importance, as is shown ... as settled officers, are not mentioned at all, for the very rare word in Ex 21:22 (palil, De 32:31 ... naturally on the above grounds alone to a time not very far either way from that of Saul? Now, in ...
... 1828 Dictionary FINE, a. 1. Small; thin; slender; minute; of very small diameter; as a fine thread; fine silk; a fine ... trumpet by the name of the metal was fine. 11. Very handsome; beautiful with dignity. The lady has a fine person ... agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence [syn: very well, fine, alright, all right, OK] 2: in a delicate ... per thousand < a gold coin .9166 fine > 2. a. (1) very thin in gauge or texture < fine thread > (2) not coarse < fine sand > (3) very small < fine print > (4) keen < a knife with a fine edge > (5) very precise or accurate < a fine adjustment > < trying to be ...