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.

(1) Finite, infinite, define, definite, confine, final, in fine, unfinished; (2) definitive, infinitesimal.

It is, therefore, sir, undoubtedly requisite that the terms of the exception should be explicit and definitive, and that only those should be exempted who have such possessions or qualifications as this assembly shall think a just title to exemption.

His discourse is all positions and definitive decrees, with thus it must be and thus it is, and he will not humble his authority to prove it.

How can one believe that the Government of Monsieur Thiers will lend an ear to the propositions carried there by the members of the Republican Union of the rights of Paris, by the delegates of Parisian trade and by the emissaries of the Freemasons; when the principal object of all these propositions is the definitive establishment of the Republic, and the fall and entire recognition of our municipal liberties.

I am aware that an Indian speaker, who had never studied his own language, would pronounce much of that incorrect (in following a particular system imposed on him), particularly in the characterizing (definitive) form, for in this conjugation the root always undergoes a change.

Several of the governments regarding with favor the proposition of the United States have delayed definitive action upon it only for the purpose of consulting with others, parties to the conference of Paris.

He therefore declined giving any definitive answer until he had ascertained who were the great nobles pledged to the faction of the Queen-mother, and the amount of money which she was prepared to disburse for the expenses of a civil war.

But when a definitive particle precedes the noun, it is very common with us, to introduce the possessive elliptically after it; and what Dr. Wilson means by suggesting that it is erroneous, I know not: "When the preposition of precedes mine, ours, yours, &c. the errour lies, not in this, that there are double possessive cases, but in forming an implication of a noun, which the substitute already denotes, together with the persons.

2. A pronominal adjective is a definitive word which may either accompany its noun, or represent it understood.

2. A pronominal adjective is a definitive word which may either accompany its noun, or represent it understood.

The word same is seldom, if ever used without the definite article or some stronger definitive before it; as, "On the same day,""in that same hour,""These same gentlemen."

She had already passed her period of growththat preadolescent "awkward age" when the features are in constant change before settling down to their definitive forms and the limbs seem to grow longer and longer and thinner and thinner.

The reign of Prince Boris (852-88) is remarkable because it witnessed the definitive conversion to Christianity of Bulgaria and her ruler.

The imminence of this movement was known to Austro-German diplomacy, and doubtless this knowledge, as well as the fear of the Pan-Serb movement, prompted the Austrian foreign minister to take steps towards the definitive regularization of his country's position in Bosnia and Hercegovinaprovinces whose suzerain was still the Sultan of Turkey.

Ed. definitive.

Ed. definitive.

On the 18th of October the definitive treaty was concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle.

The useful reforms being thus abandoned and the king's feeble power radically shaken, religious discord came to fill up the cup of disorder, and to pave the way for the dismemberment, as well as definitive ruin, of unhappy Poland.

He insists, previous to coming to any definitive treaty, on being named Physician to the Army.

" George Dana Boardman. Adjectives are divided into two general classes: descriptive and definitive adjectives.

Classes of Adjectives.+There are two general classes of adjectives: the descriptive [blue, high, etc.], so called because they describe, and the limiting or definitive adjectives [yonder, three, that, etc.], so called because they limit or define.

Limiting or Definitive Adjectives.+The limiting adjectives include the various classes of pronominal adjectives (all of which have been mentioned under pronouns), the articles (a, an, and the), and adjectives denoting place and number.

And I beseech your Lordship To think I have not so far lost my reason, To bring into my familie, to succeed me, The strangerIssue of anothers Bed, By proof, this is my Son, I challenge him, Accept him, and acknowledge him, and desire By a definitive Sentence of the Court, He may be so recorded, and full power To me, to take him home.

Representations upon this subject have been made, but as yet no definitive answer to those representations has been received from the British Government.

The war which has existed for so long a time between Mexico and Texas has since the battle of San Jacinto consisted for the most part of predatory incursions, which, while they have been attended with much of suffering to individuals and have kept the borders of the two countries in a state of constant alarm, have failed to approach to any definitive result.