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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Mend

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Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Mend

MEND, verb transitive [Latin emendo, menda, a fault, spot or blemish.]

1. To repair, as a breach; to supply a part broken or defective; as, to mend a garment, a road, a mill-dam, a fence, etc.

2. To correct; to set right; to alter for the better; as, to mend the life or manners.

3. To repair; to restore to a sound state; as, to mend a feeble or broken constitution.

4. To help; to advance; to make better.

This plausible apology does not mend the matter.

Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.

5. To improve; to hasten.

He saw the monster mend his pace.

MEND, verb intransitive To grow better; to advance to a better state; to improve. We say, a feeble constitution mends daily; a sick man mends, or is convalescent.


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Mendable

MEND'ABLE, adjective Capable of being mended.


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Mendacious

MENDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin mendax.] Lying; false. [Little used.]


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Mendacity

MENDAC'ITY, noun [Latin mendax, false, lying.] Falsehood.

[The proper signification of this word would be a disposition to lie, or habitual lying.]


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Mended

MEND'ED, participle passive Repaired; made better; improved.


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Mender

MEND'ER, noun One who mends or repairs.


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Mendicancy

MEND'ICANCY, adjective [Latin medicans.] Beggary; a state of begging.


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Mendicant

MEND'ICANT, adjective [Latin mendicans, from mendico, to beg; allied to Latin mando, to command, demand.]

1. Begging; poor to a state of beggary; as reduced to a mendicant state.

2. Practicing beggary; as a mendicant friar.

MEND'ICANT, noun A beggar; one that makes it his business to beg alms; one of the begging fraternity of the Romish church.


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Mendicate

MEND'ICATE, verb transitive To beg, or practice begging. [Not used.]


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Mendicity

MENDIC'ITY,noun [Latin mendicitas.]

The state of begging; the life of a beggar.


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Mendment

MENDMENT, for amendment. [Not in use.]


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Mends

MENDS, for amends, not used.