King James Bible Dictionary

rain; prison

A Benjamite.
1 Samuel 10:21

(rain of Jehovah), a family of the tribe of Benjamin, to which Saul the King of Isr'l belonged. (1 Samuel 10:21)

MA'TRICE

MAT'RICIDAL, adjective Pertaining to matricide.

MAT'RICIDE, noun [Latin matricidium; mater, mother, and coedo, to slay.]

1. The killing or murder of a mother.

2. The killer or murderer of his mother.

MATRIC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin matricula, a roll or register, from matrix.]

To enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.

MATRIC'ULATE, noun One enrolled in a register, and thus admitted to membership in a society.

MATRICULA'TION, noun The act of registering a name and admitting to membership.

MATRIMO'NIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as matrimonial rights or duties.

2. Derived from marriage.

If he relied on that title, he could be but a king at curtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power.

MATRIMO'NIALLY, adverb According to the manner or laws of marriage.

MATRIMO'NIOUS, adjective Matrimonial. [Little used.]

MAT'RIMONY, noun [Latin matrimonium, from mater, mother.]

Marriage; wedlock; the union of man and woman for life; the nuptial state.

If any man know cause why this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony they are to declare it.

MATRIX. [See Matrice.]

MA'TRIX, noun [Latin matrix from mater, mother.]

1. The womb; the cavity in which the fetus of an animal is formed and nourished till its birth.

2. A mold; the cavity in which any thing is formed, and which gives it shape; as the matrix of a type.

3. The place where any thing is formed or produced; as the matrix of metals; gang.

4. In dyeing, the five simple colors, black, white, blue, red and yellow, of which all the rest are composed.