--- title: C — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 17 description: The 1959 words of the English dictionary under C, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / C # C — The English dictionary · page 17 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* A thin, clear, shiny sheet material that is used for wrapping things such as flowers, sweets, gifts and food.[↗](../../cellophane/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Coloured cellophane: thin see-through sheets in bright colours used in crafts, for example to make stained-glass windows or coloured lenses.[↗](../../cellophane/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The roses came wrapped in shiny cellophane.[↗](../../cellophane/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum tore the cellophane off the new box of crayons.[↗](../../cellophane/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We made a lantern with orange cellophane over the holes.[↗](../../cellophane/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Look through the blue cellophane and everything turns blue.[↗](../../cellophane/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Cellophane is transparent, so light can pass through it.[↗](../../cellophane/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The sweets were twisted up in little cellophane wrappers.[↗](../../cellophane/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The cellophane crackled when I squeezed the parcel.[↗](../../cellophane/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class made stained-glass windows from black card and coloured cellophane.[↗](../../cellophane/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **celtic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Celtic describes the Celts, ancient peoples of Europe, and the peoples and cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany today.[↗](../../celtic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Celtic is a family of languages that includes Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton and Cornish.[↗](../../celtic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Celtic is the name of a famous football club in Glasgow, Scotland.[↗](../../celtic/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Celts lived in Britain long ago.[↗](../../celtic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We drew Celtic knots in art class.[↗](../../celtic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Welsh is a Celtic language.[↗](../../celtic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The band plays Celtic music with fiddles and pipes.[↗](../../celtic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A Celtic cross stood in the churchyard.[↗](../../celtic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My cousin supports Celtic, the Glasgow football team.[↗](../../celtic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **cement** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A grey powder mixed with water, sand and stones to make concrete or mortar; it becomes hard when dry.[↗](../../cement/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A strong glue.[↗](../../cement/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To stick things together with cement.[↗](../../cement/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To make something stronger or more certain (cement a friendship).[↗](../../cement/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The builders mixed cement for the new wall.[↗](../../cement/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The cement mixer turned slowly.[↗](../../cement/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't step on the wet cement\![↗](../../cement/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · They cemented the bricks together.[↗](../../cement/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The trip cemented their friendship.[↗](../../cement/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Cement is made by heating limestone and clay.[↗](../../cement/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **cemetery** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A cemetery is a large area of land, often with grass and trees, where dead people are buried in graves.[↗](../../cemetery/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grandpa is buried in the cemetery near the church.[↗](../../cemetery/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We put flowers on Nan's grave in the cemetery.[↗](../../cemetery/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Please walk quietly in the cemetery.[↗](../../cemetery/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The old cemetery has stones with names on them.[↗](../../cemetery/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The war cemetery has rows of white graves.[↗](../../cemetery/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some ghost stories are set in a cemetery at night.[↗](../../cemetery/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The iron railing looks like the gate of a cemetery, and there are brass knobs upon it.[↗](../../cemetery/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **cenotaph** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A cenotaph is a monument built to remember people, especially soldiers, who died somewhere else and are buried elsewhere.[↗](../../cenotaph/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The Cenotaph is the famous war memorial in Whitehall, London.[↗](../../cenotaph/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We laid poppies at the cenotaph.[↗](../../cenotaph/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The names of local soldiers are carved on the cenotaph.[↗](../../cenotaph/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Everyone stood silent by the cenotaph.[↗](../../cenotaph/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The King laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in London.[↗](../../cenotaph/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our town's cenotaph is in the middle of the square.[↗](../../cenotaph/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Scouts marched to the cenotaph for the service.[↗](../../cenotaph/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **censer** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A censer is a metal container, often hung on chains, that holds burning incense; it is swung in church to fill the air with sweet smoke.[↗](../../censer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The priests waved the censers.[↗](../../censer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She was given a golden censer.[↗](../../censer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Mass was celebrated while the censers swung.[↗](../../censer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil.[↗](../../censer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.16.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../censer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.[↗](../../censer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.10.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../censer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **censor** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A spelling variant of "censer", a pan for burning incense.[↗](../../censor/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") Today "censor" means a person who removes things that are thought improper.[↗](../../censor/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* This do: take you censors, Korah, and all his company; (Torah NUM.16.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../censor/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **censure** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) Censure is strong, official criticism or disapproval.[↗](../../censure/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) To censure someone is to criticise them strongly and officially, especially for something they did wrong.[↗](../../censure/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A vote of censure is when a parliament or group officially says it disapproves of a leader or member.[↗](../../censure/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* (formal) The council faced public censure for closing the library.[↗](../../censure/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Parliament voted to censure the minister.[↗](../../censure/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The referee was censured for unfair decisions.[↗](../../censure/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The report censured the company for polluting the river.[↗](../../censure/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Cheating at the competition brought censure from the judges.[↗](../../censure/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The senator was formally censured by Congress.[↗](../../censure/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) The headteacher's censure was severe but fair.[↗](../../censure/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · If he is a true genius, he can bear the sharp voice of censure.[↗](../../censure/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **census** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An official count of all the people in a country, with facts such as their ages and jobs.[↗](../../census/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Any official count, for example of animals or birds (a bird census).[↗](../../census/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The government takes a census every ten years.[↗](../../census/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The census showed the town had grown.[↗](../../census/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We made a graph of census data in maths.[↗](../../census/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Volunteers took a census of the frogs in the pond.[↗](../../census/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The census counts everyone living in the country.[↗](../../census/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class did a census of pets: 12 dogs and 9 cats.[↗](../../census/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **cent** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A cent is a small coin or amount of money; a hundred cents make a dollar or a euro.[↗](../../cent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* «Per cent» means out of a hundred: 50 per cent is half.[↗](../../cent/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A pencil costs 3 cents.[↗](../../cent/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Anna has 50 cents and spends 20 cents.[↗](../../cent/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How many cents does Tom have left?[↗](../../cent/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A dollar is 100 cents.[↗](../../cent/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I found a 5-cent coin under the sofa.[↗](../../cent/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Gum costs 75¢.[↗](../../cent/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · 50 per cent of 10 is 5.[↗](../../cent/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I don't have a cent left\![↗](../../cent/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And I paid four cents for you.[↗](../../cent/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **centaur** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A centaur is a creature in Greek myths with the top half of a man and the body and legs of a horse.[↗](../../centaur/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Chiron the Centaur lived in a cave.[↗](../../centaur/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · For ten years Jason stayed with the Centaur.[↗](../../centaur/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dying Centaur was thirsting for revenge.[↗](../../centaur/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **centenarian** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who is 100 years old or older.[↗](../../centenarian/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My great-grandma is a centenarian; she is 101.[↗](../../centenarian/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The centenarian got a birthday card from the King.[↗](../../centenarian/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Japan has many centenarians.[↗](../../centenarian/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A centenarian has lived for at least a century.[↗](../../centenarian/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The village threw a party for its first centenarian.[↗](../../centenarian/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **centilitre** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A centilitre is a small unit for measuring liquid.[↗](../../centilitre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A litre has 100 centilitres, and a centilitre is 10 millilitres.[↗](../../centilitre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is written cl.[↗](../../centilitre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A cup holds 20 centilitres.[↗](../../centilitre/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The jug has 150 centilitres of milk.[↗](../../centilitre/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How many centilitres are in 2 litres?[↗](../../centilitre/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Each glass takes 25 centilitres.[↗](../../centilitre/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A small bottle of water holds 50 centilitres.[↗](../../centilitre/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse gave him 1 centilitre of medicine.[↗](../../centilitre/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Half a litre is 50 centilitres.[↗](../../centilitre/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Pour 30 centilitres of juice into the bowl.[↗](../../centilitre/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **centime** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (money) A small coin and unit of money worth one hundredth of a franc, used in France before the euro, and still used in Switzerland (one hundredth of a Swiss franc) and some African countries.[↗](../../centime/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (French) In France people still say «centime» for a euro cent.[↗](../../centime/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* In Switzerland, one franc is a hundred centimes.[↗](../../centime/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The bread cost two euros and fifty centimes.[↗](../../centime/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A centime is like a cent or a penny.[↗](../../centime/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa has old French centime coins from his trip.[↗](../../centime/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In maths: 250 centimes make 2.50 francs.[↗](../../centime/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «Ça coûte cinquante centimes» means «It costs fifty cents.»[↗](../../centime/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **centimeter** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A centimeter is a small unit of length in the metric system, about the width of a fingernail.[↗](../../centimeter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") 100 centimeters make 1 meter.[↗](../../centimeter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A meter is 100 centimeters.[↗](../../centimeter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A centimeter is 10 millimeters.[↗](../../centimeter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The pencil is 15 centimeters long.[↗](../../centimeter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A square has sides of 4 centimeters.[↗](../../centimeter/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · 2 meters is 200 centimeters.[↗](../../centimeter/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Cut 30 centimeters off the ribbon.[↗](../../centimeter/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Measure the leaf in centimeters.[↗](../../centimeter/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A ruler is often 30 centimeters long.[↗](../../centimeter/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The snail moved 5 centimeters in a minute.[↗](../../centimeter/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She grew 6 centimeters this year.[↗](../../centimeter/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The ant is less than 1 centimeter long.[↗](../../centimeter/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The area of the card is 20 square centimeters.[↗](../../centimeter/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **centimetre** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Centimetre is the British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian way to spell centimeter, a small unit of length about the width of a fingernail.[↗](../../centimetre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") 100 centimetres make 1 metre.[↗](../../centimetre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A metre is 100 centimetres.[↗](../../centimetre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A centimetre is 10 millimetres.[↗](../../centimetre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The worm is 6 centimetres long.[↗](../../centimetre/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A rectangle is 8 centimetres by 3 centimetres.[↗](../../centimetre/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · 1 metre is 100 centimetres.[↗](../../centimetre/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The tower is 25 centimetres tall.[↗](../../centimetre/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw a line 12 centimetres long.[↗](../../centimetre/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My hand is about 15 centimetres long.[↗](../../centimetre/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The seedling grew 2 centimetres in a week.[↗](../../centimetre/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Rain: 3 centimetres fell overnight.[↗](../../centimetre/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The shoebox is 30 centimetres long.[↗](../../centimetre/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Each square on the grid is one square centimetre.[↗](../../centimetre/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **centipede** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A centipede is a small long thin creature with a flat body divided into many parts, each with one pair of legs.[↗](../../centipede/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is fast, lives in dark damp places and hunts insects.[↗](../../centipede/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A centipede ran out from under the log.[↗](../../centipede/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Centipedes hunt insects and spiders.[↗](../../centipede/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A centipede has one pair of legs on each body part.[↗](../../centipede/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «Centi» means a hundred, but most centipedes don't have exactly 100 legs.[↗](../../centipede/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We found a centipede during our minibeast hunt.[↗](../../centipede/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Big centipedes can bite, so don't pick them up.[↗](../../centipede/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Centipedes like dark, damp places.[↗](../../centipede/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Is it a centipede or a millipede?[↗](../../centipede/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") Count the legs on each section.[↗](../../centipede/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The centipede was invulnerable to weapons\![↗](../../centipede/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **central** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Central means in the middle or centre of something: central London, the central square.[↗](../../central/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Central means most important, main: the central idea of a story.[↗](../../central/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Central means controlled from one main place: central heating, a central computer.[↗](../../central/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our hotel was in central Paris.[↗](../../central/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The central idea of the story is friendship.[↗](../../central/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We put the plant on the central table.[↗](../../central/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The house has central heating.[↗](../../central/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mexico is north of Central America.[↗](../../central/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The library is central to our school.[↗](../../central/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The heart has a central role in the body.[↗](../../central/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Central Australia is very hot and dry.[↗](../../central/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · This led into a central chamber 15 feet square and open to the sky.[↗](../../central/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Elsewhere in the SY, the ‘tongue’ (or ‘wedge’) appears as the symbol of a central balance between two extremities, e.g. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../central/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · ' It is the "central fire" (fiery angels the throne of glory) that is associated in the Sefer Yetzira (above p. 61 para. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../central/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **centre** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The centre is the middle point or part of something.[↗](../../centre/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A centre is a building or place used for a special activity, like a sports centre or shopping centre.[↗](../../centre/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* The centre of attention is the person everyone is looking at.[↗](../../centre/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To centre something means to put it in the middle.[↗](../../centre/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Draw a circle and mark its centre.[↗](../../centre/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We went swimming at the sports centre.[↗](../../centre/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sun is at the centre of our solar system.[↗](../../centre/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The bakery is in the centre of town.[↗](../../centre/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She loves being the centre of attention.[↗](../../centre/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Centre the title at the top of the page.[↗](../../centre/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The radius goes from the centre to the edge.[↗](../../centre/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "Let those in the centre carry you," said the birds.[↗](../../centre/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · 11) As the infinite series of numbers starts from one unit, so was the whole Universe formed a unity, that centres in the Godhead.[↗](../../centre/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../centre/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · It teaches that a first cause, eternal, all-wise, almighty and holy, is the origin and the centre of the whole universe, from whom gradually all beings emanated.[↗](../../centre/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../centre/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · The seven double consonants are analogous to the six dimensions: height and depth, East and West, North and South, and the holy temple that stands in the centre, which carries them all.[↗](../../centre/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../centre/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **centurion** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An officer in the army of ancient Rome, in charge of about 80 to 100 soldiers (a century).[↗](../../centurion/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (Bible) Centurions appear in the New Testament, such as the centurion at Capernaum whose servant Jesus healed, and the centurion at the cross.[↗](../../centurion/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The centurion shouted orders to his soldiers.[↗](../../centurion/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A centurion led about eighty legionaries.[↗](../../centurion/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class built a model of a centurion's helmet.[↗](../../centurion/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the Bible, a centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant.[↗](../../centurion/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The centurion's helmet had a crest from side to side.[↗](../../centurion/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Roman centurions guarded Hadrian's Wall.[↗](../../centurion/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **century** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A century is a period of one hundred years.[↗](../../century/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A century also means one of the hundred-year periods counted in history, such as «the twenty-first century» (the one we live in now).[↗](../../century/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In cricket a century is a score of one hundred runs by one player.[↗](../../century/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A century is one hundred years.[↗](../../century/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · This old oak tree has stood here for more than a century.[↗](../../century/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Castles were built many centuries ago.[↗](../../century/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Half a century is fifty years.[↗](../../century/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · People have played football for centuries.[↗](../../century/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The batter scored a century in the cricket match.[↗](../../century/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In which century were trains invented?[↗](../../century/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A turtle can live for about a century.[↗](../../century/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · But that century passed, and no one freed me.[↗](../../century/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Commentaries by Judah Halevi, and by Eben Ezra, of the 12th century, are also known.[↗](../../century/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../century/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · But Isaac Myer states that there are un- doubted traces of pointing in Hebrew MSS. of the second century.[↗](../../century/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../century/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Hence this book was known already in the second or at the beginning of the third century of the Christian Era.[↗](../../century/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../century/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) … [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/16/) **17** [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/18/) … [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/99/) - ← previous: [page 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/16/) - next →: [page 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/18/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)