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21 words match “GENTILE”

GENTILE a. 3 definitions

Denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.

GENTILE-FALCON n.

See Falcon-gentil.

Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor.

ETHNIC; ETHNICAL a.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

GENTILIZE v. 2 definitions

To live like a gentile or heathen. [Obs.] Milton.

Gentilesse; gentleness. [Obs.]

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. "The heathen philosopher." "All in gold, like heathen gods." Shak.

wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21.

KYTHE; KITHE v.

o make known; to manifest; to show; to declare. [Obs: or Scot.] For gentle hearte kytheth gentilesse. Chaucer.

" Lo, we turn to the Gentiles." Acts xiii. 46.

Dominion; power; authority. They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. Mark x. 42.

ld dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new. Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office. Rom. xi. 13.

Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. -- n.

some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte. Matt. xxiii. 15. Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrai…

solving whereof we must first know that the Jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving Gentile. Milton.

t; to question. Others long before them . . . scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. Milton.

ellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame. Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence Sir W. Scott.

To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse. Chaucer.

UNCIRCUMCISION n.

People not circumcised; the Gentiles.