445 collocations for define

Indeed, it would be difficult to define exactly Kenneth Forbes' position at Elmhurst.

In point of fact, the Constitution was simply the minutes of an agreement among certain gentlemen, to define the limits within which they would accept trust- funds, and the objects for which they should expend them.

Another means of buttressing your command of your present vocabulary is to define words you use or are familiar with. Do not bewilder yourself with words (like and, the) which call for ingenuity in handling somewhat technical terms, or with words (like thing, affair, condition) which loosely cover a multitude of meanings.

It defines all the technical terms which it uses, and illustrates its principles.

" In this great purpose of enumerating rather than defining the powers of government its framers were supremely wise.

To insure the stability of the federal union thus formed, the Constitution created a "system of United States courts extending throughout the states, empowered to define the boundaries of federal authority, and to enforce its decisions by federal power."

It was he who defined the relations established between Church and State, and decreed that in England churchman as well as baron was to be held under the Common law.

This extreme rhetorical parallel was further insisted on by Minturno (1559), who defined the duty of a poet as so to speak in verse as to teach, to delight, and to move.

FROM THE NUMBER AND POSITION OF THE TEETH, physiologists are enabled to define the nature and functions of the animal; and from those of the Sus, or hog, it is evident that he is as much a grinder as a biter, or can live as well on vegetable as on animal food; though a mixture of both is plainly indicated as the character of food most conducive to the integrity and health of its physical system. 767.

In the first Praxis, it is required of the pupilmerely to distinguish and define the different parts of speech.

The word forever, instead of defining the length of individual service, proclaims the permanence of the regulation laid down in the two verses preceding, namely, that their permanent domestics should be of the Strangers, and not of the Israelites; and it declares the duration of that general provision.

Impressed by these arguments, the committee were clearly of opinion, that they should define their object to be the abolition of the Slave Trade, and not of the slavery which sprung from it.

It is a very desirable shrub, of which there are varieties named O.A. ilicifolius argenteo-variegatus, O.A. ilicifolius aureo-variegatus, and O.A. ilicifolius nanus, the names of which will be sufficient to define their characters.

A papal bull grants to Spain the new world discovered by Columbus, and defines the rights of Spain and Portugal.

It is desirable alike to clear our own heads, to unify our efforts, and to give the nations of the world some assurance and standard for our national conduct in the future, that we should now define the Idea of our Empire and its relation to the world outlook much more clearly than has ever hitherto been done.

" And to this end let us define somewhat more exactly the extent of these pretensions of palaeontology.

Although these critics generally, with the exceptions of Aristotle and Eratosthenes, believed the greatest value of poetry to be in the teaching of morality, no one of them endeavored to define poetry, as they did rhetoric, by its purpose.

There is no name in the language of national jurisprudence that can define itno model in the records of ancient history, or in the political theories of Aristotle, with which it can be likened.

"' 'He thus defined the difference between physical and moral truth; "Physical truth, is, when you tell a thing as it actually is.

"How would you define humor?" "Why, humor is something funny.

It is difficult to conceive of beauty or grace by definitions,-as difficult as it is to define love or any other ultimate sentiment of the soul.

Hermagoras affirms that the purpose of rhetoric is persuasion,[40] and Dionysius of Halicarnassus defines rhetoric as the artistic mastery of persuasive speech in communal affairs.

De Quincey, however, always returns to the subject in hand and defines very sharply the point of digression and of return.

Though the treaty of peace was not satisfactory in many particulars, it more clearly defined the lines between the United States and British possessions in America, leaving the fishery question and the right to search and impressment in an unsettled condition, giving the "Peace Party" an opportunity to say, "I told you so.

Also the re-action upon the individual must necessarily give rise to a corresponding state of inharmony, though he may not be able to define his feeling of unrest or to account for it.

445 collocations for  define