Directeth
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Job 37:3
- Last Reference: Proverbs 21:29
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:
DIRECT, adjective [Latin , to make straight. See Right.]
1. Straight; right; as, to pass in a direct line from one body or place to another. It is opposed to crooked, winding, oblique. It is also opposed to refracted; as a direct ray of light.
2. In astronomy, appearing to move forward in the zodiac, in the direction of the sign; opposed to retrograde; as, the motion of a planet is direct
3. In the line of father and sons; opposed to collateral; as a descendant in the direct line.
4. Leading or tending to an end, as by a straight line or course; not circuitous. Thus we speak of direct means to effect an object; a direct course; a direct way.
5. Open; not ambiguous or doubtful.
6. Plain; express; not ambiguous; as, he said this in direct words; he made a direct acknowledgment.
7. In music, a direct interval is that which forms any kind of harmony on the fundamental sound which produces it; as the fifth, major third and octave.
DIRECT tax, is a tax assess on real estate, as houses and lands.
DIRECT, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To point or aim in a straight line, towards a place or object; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance; to direct the eye; to direct a course or flight.
2. To point; to show the right road or course; as, he directed me to the left hand road.
3. To regulate; to guide or lead; to govern; to cause to proceed in a particular manner; as, to direct the affairs of a nation.
Wisdom is profitable to direct Ecclesiastes 10:10.
4. To prescribe a course; to mark out a way. Job 37:3.
5. To order; to instruct; to point out a course of proceeding, with authority; to command. But direct is a softer term than command.
DIRECT, noun In music, a character placed at the end of a stave to direct the performer to the first note of the next stave.
DIRECTED, participle passive Aimed; pointed; guided; regulated; governed; ordered; instructed.
DIRECTER, noun A director, which see.
DIRECTING, participle present tense Aiming; pointing; guiding; regulating; governing; ordering.
DIRECTION, noun [Latin]
1. Aim at a certain point; a pointing towards, in a straight line or course; as, the direction of good works to a good end.
2. The line in which a body moves by impulse; course. Matter or body cannot alter the direction of its own motion.
3. A straight line or course. A star appeared int eh direction of a certain tower. The ship sailed in a south-easterly direction
4. The act of governing; administration; management; guidance; superintendence; as the direction of public affairs; direction of domestic concerns; the direction of a bank.
5. Regularity; adjustment.
All chance, direction which thou canst not see.
6. Order; prescription; either verbal or written; instruction in what manner to proceed. The employer gives directions to his workmen; the physician, to his patient.
7. The superscription of a letter, including the name, title and place of abode of the person for whom it is intended.
8. A body or board of directors.
DIRECTIVE, adjective
1. Having the power of direction; as a directive rule.
2. Informing; instructing; shewing way.
DIRECTLY, adverb
1. In a straight lin or course; rectilineally; not in a winding course. Aim directly to the object. Gravity tends directly to the center of the earth.
2. Immediately; soon; without delay; as, he will be with us directly
3. Openly; expressly, without circumlocution or ambiguity, or without a train or inferences.
No man hath been so impious, as directly to condemn prayer.
DIRECTNESS, noun Straightness; a straight course; nearness of way.
DIRECTOR, noun
1. One who directs; one who superintends, governs or manages; one who prescribes to others, by virtue of authority; an instructor; a counselor.
2. That which directs; a rule; an ordinance.
3. One appointed to transact the affairs of a company; as the director of a bank, or of the India Company.
4. That which directs or controls by influence.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
5. In surgery, a grooved probe, intended to direct the edge of the knife or scissors in opening sinuses or fistulae; a guide for and incision-knife.
DIRECTORIAL, adjective Pertaining to directors or direction; containing direction or command.
DIRECTORY, adjective Containing directions; enjoining; instructing.
DIRECTORY, noun
1. A guide; a rule to direct; particularly, a book containing directions for public worship, or religious services. The Bible is our best directory in faith and practice.
2. A book containing an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of a city, with their places of abode.
3. The supreme council of France, in the late revolution.
4. A board of directors.
DIRECTRESS, noun A female who directs or manages.
DIRECTRIX, noun A female who governs or directs.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Job 37:3
- Last Reference: Proverbs 21:29
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
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