Christmas week arrived with no definite assurance from Jarvis as to his plans, but Bambi was confident that he would be at home for the holiday.

This fact largely contributed to secure an uncontaminated transmission of the text, which seems also to have been left by Muhammed himself in definite form.

It was a compromise which affected the most trivial details of life, and in these matters religious scrupulosity was carried to a ridiculous point: here we may see the outcome of that Judaism which, as has been said, was then a definite element in Eastern Christianity.

The mosque, the building erected for the special purpose of divine service, was unknown during the prophet's lifetime; nor was there any definite church organisation, of which the most important parts are the common ritual and the preaching.

" Sylvia shivered a little and drew back, but she instantly put the matter out of her mind with a trained and definite action of her will.

Letter-writing is perhaps the most pleasing and genuine of all the literary activities of the time; men took pains to write well, yet not with any definite prospect of publication, such as was the motive a century later in the days of Seneca and Pliny.

The betrothal was indeed a promise rather than a definite contract, and might be broken off without illegality; and thus if there were a strong dislike on the part of either girl or boy a way of escape could be found.

As regards the familia rustica, the working population of the farm, the evidence is much more definite.

Preparations for war in this way follow definite lines, which are dictated by necessity and circumstances; but it is evident that a wide scope is still left for varieties of personal opinion, especially where the discussion includes the positive duties of the State, which may lead to an energetic foreign policy, and thus possibly to an offensive war, and where very divergent views exist as to the preparation for war.

They must be elaborated in peace-time, and a definite department of the Government must be responsible for these preparations.

I should like your definite answer then, if it is not inconvenient.

"But I want to beg you, until you have definite information, to forbear from thinking that my dear Mills could conceivably have been the originator of these scandalous tales, tales which I know from my knowledge of you are impossible to be true.

It was but seldom that he broke into the routine of habits so long formed, and indeed the most violent rain or snow of winter, the most cutting easterly blasts of March, never, unless he had some definite bodily ailment, kept him indoors or deprived him of his brisk health-giving trudge over the downs or along the sea front.

And you will generally remark in the very greatest poets that not only are the images they represent to us extraordinarily definite and concrete and therefore vividas Dante, for example, will describe a Scene in Hell or in Paradise with as much particularity as though he were writing a newspaper report; but this concreteness of vision translates itself into a remarkable concreteness of speech.

Nothing definite has yet been ascertained.

The latter phraseology, being definite and formal, is now seldom used, except the terms be separated by a verb or a preposition.

The higher rounds, if spoken of generally, and without definite contrast, will be those in the upper half; the lower rounds, referred to in like manner, will be those in the lower half, or those not far from the ground.

Some grammarians, observing this, and knowing that the Romans often used their superlative in a sense merely intensive, as altissimus for very high, have needlessly divided our English superlative into two, "the definite, and the indefinite;" giving the latter name to that degree which we mark by the adverb very, and the former to that which alone is properly called the superlative.

Which is the definite article, and what does it denote?

5.Adjectives preceded by the definite article, are often used, by ellipsis, as nouns; as, the learned, for learned men.

its chief use declined to what creatures may be applied put for the distance, ("How far do you call IT?" &c., PRIESTL.,) without definite reference to an anteced.

See also Definite Article.

He was usually definite and frank.

Every impression, to become a sensation, must first be perceived by the intelligence, and thus we may say of the sensation that it is a definite impression.

But, to be definite, it must pass into the domain of memory and there solicit the reappearance of its congeners with which it may identify itself.