Pointed
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Job 41:30
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: No
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: No
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Pointed
POINT'ED, participle passive Sharpened; formed to a point; directed; aimed.
1. Aimed at a particular person or transaction.
2. adjective Sharp; having a sharp point; as a pointed rock.
3. Epigrammatical; abounding in conceits or lively turns; as pointed wit.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Pointedly
POINT'EDLY, adverb In a pointed manner; with lively turns of thought or expression.
He often wrote too pointedly for his subject.
1. With direct assertion; with direct reference to a subject; with explicitness; as, he declared pointedly he would accede to the proposition.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Pointedness
POINT'EDNESS, noun Sharpness; pickedness with asperity.
1. Epigrammatical keenness or smartness.
In this you excel Horace, that you add pointedness of thought.