--- title: C — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 68 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/68/) [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 68 [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 snake that kills its prey by wrapping its body around it and squeezing until the animal cannot breathe, such as a boa constrictor or a python.[↗](../../constrictor/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science) A muscle that tightens or narrows a part of the body.[↗](../../constrictor/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Anything that squeezes or narrows something.[↗](../../constrictor/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A boa constrictor wraps around its prey and squeezes.[↗](../../constrictor/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pythons are constrictors, not venomous snakes.[↗](../../constrictor/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The zookeeper let us touch a small constrictor.[↗](../../constrictor/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The constrictor swallowed the rat whole.[↗](../../constrictor/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Constrictor muscles in your throat help you swallow.[↗](../../constrictor/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the jungle explorer met a huge constrictor hanging from a tree.[↗](../../constrictor/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **construct** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To build or make something, such as a house, bridge or model.[↗](../../construct/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (maths) To draw a shape accurately using a ruler, compasses and protractor: «Construct a triangle with sides 5 cm, 6 cm and 7 cm.».[↗](../../construct/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To put together ideas or words: «construct a sentence», «construct an argument».[↗](../../construct/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (noun, formal) An idea or thing made by people's minds rather than found in nature.[↗](../../construct/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Workers constructed a new bridge over the river.[↗](../../construct/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Construct an angle of 60 degrees using a protractor.[↗](../../construct/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We constructed a model volcano.[↗](../../construct/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you construct a sentence using the word «because»?[↗](../../construct/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The bird constructed its nest from twigs.[↗](../../construct/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Money is a human construct.[↗](../../construct/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She therefore instructed the hero how to construct a raft, for which she herself wove the sails.[↗](../../construct/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · However, this is grammatically peculiar, as immot is usually only the construct plural of אֵם em 'mother', whose absolute plural is rather אִמָּהוֹת immahot.[↗](../../construct/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../construct/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **construction** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Construction is the work of building things such as houses, roads and bridges.[↗](../../construction/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A construction is something that has been built, or a structure made of parts.[↗](../../construction/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In grammar, a construction is the way words are put together.[↗](../../construction/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In maths, a construction is a drawing made exactly with a ruler and compass.[↗](../../construction/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The new library is still under construction.[↗](../../construction/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Never play on a construction site.[↗](../../construction/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Construction workers wear hard hats and bright vests.[↗](../../construction/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our tower of spaghetti and marshmallows was a wobbly construction.[↗](../../construction/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We used coloured construction paper to make the cards.[↗](../../construction/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The road is closed for construction.[↗](../../construction/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In maths we did a construction of a triangle with a compass.[↗](../../construction/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Lego is a construction toy.[↗](../../construction/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction.[↗](../../construction/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **constructive** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Helpful and useful, aiming to improve something: constructive criticism.[↗](../../constructive/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Building up rather than breaking down: a constructive discussion.[↗](../../constructive/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our teacher gives constructive feedback on our stories.[↗](../../constructive/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · "Your ending is exciting; maybe add more detail in the middle" is constructive criticism.[↗](../../constructive/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We had a constructive talk about the playground rules.[↗](../../constructive/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Try to be constructive, not just negative.[↗](../../constructive/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The meeting was constructive and we made a plan.[↗](../../constructive/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She made a constructive suggestion to save time.[↗](../../constructive/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **consul** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A consul is an official sent by a country to live in a foreign city to help its own citizens there and to look after trade.[↗](../../consul/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (history) In ancient Rome, a consul was one of the two leaders chosen each year to run the republic.[↗](../../consul/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (history) In France about two hundred years ago, Napoleon ruled with the title First Consul.[↗](../../consul/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* When Dad lost his passport in Spain, the consul helped him get a new one.[↗](../../consul/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Australian consul in Bali helps Australians who get into trouble there.[↗](../../consul/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ancient Rome chose two consuls every year.[↗](../../consul/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Julius Caesar was a consul before he became a dictator.[↗](../../consul/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The consul invited local business people to a dinner.[↗](../../consul/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Her aunt works at the Canadian consulate in New York.[↗](../../consul/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A consul is not quite the same as an ambassador.[↗](../../consul/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **consult** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To go to someone for advice or information: consult a doctor.[↗](../../consult/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To look in a book, map or other source for information: consult a dictionary.[↗](../../consult/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To talk with others before making a decision: consult your parents.[↗](../../consult/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* If the pain gets worse, consult a doctor.[↗](../../consult/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Consult a dictionary if you don't know a word.[↗](../../consult/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We consulted the map to find the path.[↗](../../consult/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) Consult the table to find the cost of three tickets.[↗](../../consult/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The school consulted parents about the new uniform.[↗](../../consult/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Before buying the dog, they consulted a vet.[↗](../../consult/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Whatever he had to do, he always consulted his tutor about it.[↗](../../consult/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou hast a beloved one in the world, wilt thou conceal anythinij from him ?"[↗](../../consult/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") Directly, the Holy On blessed be He said, 'Shall I conceal from Abraham?' and consulted the Torah.[↗](../../consult/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../consult/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · He said to her, 'My daughter, come and we ivill many thee to Abraham My beloved."[↗](../../consult/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") She said to him, 'Xo. not until the meek one com- es and takes meekness.'[↗](../../consult/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") God then consulted the Sefer Yetzirah, which said, "Yes'.[↗](../../consult/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../consult/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.[↗](../../consult/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.13.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consult/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do they make a covenant; (Writings PSA.83.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consult/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them: 'Ye lend upon pledge, every one to his brother.'[↗](../../consult/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") And I held a great assembly against them.[↗](../../consult/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.5.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consult/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **consultant** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person whose job is to give expert advice to businesses or people.[↗](../../consultant/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK, Ireland) A senior hospital doctor who is an expert in one area (a heart consultant).[↗](../../consultant/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The consultant helped the company save money.[↗](../../consultant/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma saw a consultant at the hospital.[↗](../../consultant/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She works as an IT consultant.[↗](../../consultant/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The consultant charged 80 pounds an hour.[↗](../../consultant/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The school hired a consultant to plan the new library.[↗](../../consultant/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My dad's a consultant in children's medicine.[↗](../../consultant/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **consultation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A meeting with an expert, such as a doctor or lawyer, to get advice.[↗](../../consultation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The act of asking people for their views before making a decision: «after consultation with parents».[↗](../../consultation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (formal) The act of looking something up in a book or source: «consultation of the map».[↗](../../consultation/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mum had a consultation with the doctor about her bad back.[↗](../../consultation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The council held a public consultation about the new skate park.[↗](../../consultation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The school changed the uniform after consultation with parents.[↗](../../consultation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The vet charged for a short consultation.[↗](../../consultation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The plan was made in consultation with the pupils.[↗](../../consultation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad booked a consultation with a lawyer.[↗](../../consultation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The consultation lasted twenty minutes.[↗](../../consultation/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Hypsipyle listened attentively to the advice of her nurse, and after some consultation, decided to invite the strangers into the city.[↗](../../consultation/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **consulteth** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* «consulteth» means «consults», a form of «consult»: To go to someone for advice or information: consult a doctor.[↗](../../consulteth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer.[↗](../../consulteth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.18.11, JPS 1917) **consume** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) To eat or drink something.[↗](../../consume/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To use up fuel, energy, time or money.[↗](../../consume/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (of fire) To destroy completely.[↗](../../consume/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* be consumed with: to be full of a strong feeling.[↗](../../consume/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The caterpillar consumed three leaves a day.[↗](../../consume/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The heater consumes a lot of electricity.[↗](../../consume/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The fire consumed the old barn.[↗](../../consume/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Homework can be very time-consuming.[↗](../../consume/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He was consumed with jealousy.[↗](../../consume/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · How much water do you consume in a day?[↗](../../consume/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Each lamp consumes 10 watts.[↗](../../consume/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · But neither knife nor axe could penetrate its hide, so they tried to consume it with fire.[↗](../../consume/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.'[↗](../../consume/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.16.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consume/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, (Torah DEU.2.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consume/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.[↗](../../consume/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.28.38, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consume/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · My reins are consumed within me.[↗](../../consume/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.19.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consume/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · They are wholly consumed by terrors.[↗](../../consume/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.73.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consume/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw it out of Thy bosom and consume them.[↗](../../consume/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.74.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consume/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **consumer** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A consumer is a person who buys or uses goods and services.[↗](../../consumer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In science, a consumer is a living thing that gets its energy by eating other plants or animals, not by making its own food.[↗](../../consumer/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A rabbit is a primary consumer because it eats plants.[↗](../../consumer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A fox is a secondary consumer.[↗](../../consumer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Consumers want good quality at a fair price.[↗](../../consumer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Every time you buy a toy, you are a consumer.[↗](../../consumer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Consumer rights mean you can return broken goods.[↗](../../consumer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In a food chain, the arrow points from the food to the consumer.[↗](../../consumer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Many consumers now shop online.[↗](../../consumer/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **consumeth** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* «consumeth» means «consumes», a form of «consume»: (formal) To eat or drink something.[↗](../../consumeth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And in the greatness of Thine excellency Thou overthrowest them that rise up against Thee; Thou sendest forth Thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.[↗](../../consumeth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.7, JPS 1917) **consummate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (adjective, formal) Showing very great skill; perfect at something: «a consummate musician».[↗](../../consummate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (adjective) Complete, total – used with a bad quality too: «a consummate liar».[↗](../../consummate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb, formal) To complete or make perfect: «to consummate a deal».[↗](../../consummate/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She is a consummate artist who can draw anything.[↗](../../consummate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The goalkeeper made the save with consummate ease.[↗](../../consummate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Toad thought himself a consummate actor in his washerwoman disguise.[↗](../../consummate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He was a consummate liar who fooled everybody.[↗](../../consummate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The two companies consummated the deal last week.[↗](../../consummate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The magician performed the trick with consummate skill.[↗](../../consummate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-eighth Path is the Natural Intelligence, and is so called because through it is consummated and perfected the nature of every existent being under the orb of the Sun, in perfection.[↗](../../consummate/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../consummate/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **consummation** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The final completing or perfecting of something.[↗](../../consummation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* It is the Consummation of the Truth of individual spiritual things.[↗](../../consummation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../consummation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · It is the Consummation of the Truth of indivi- dual spiritual things.[↗](../../consummation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../consummation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **consumption** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The amount of something that is used up, such as energy, water or food (fuel consumption).[↗](../../consumption/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The act of eating, drinking or using something.[↗](../../consumption/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Buying and using goods and services (consumer spending).[↗](../../consumption/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (old) An old name for tuberculosis (TB), a lung disease.[↗](../../consumption/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our water consumption goes up in summer.[↗](../../consumption/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The car has low fuel consumption.[↗](../../consumption/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · This food is not fit for human consumption.[↗](../../consumption/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Turning off lights cuts electricity consumption.[↗](../../consumption/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Sugar consumption has risen.[↗](../../consumption/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old novel, the girl was ill with consumption.[↗](../../consumption/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.[↗](../../consumption/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.28.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../consumption/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **contact** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Contact is touching: two things in contact are touching each other.[↗](../../contact/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Contact is communication with someone, by meeting, phone, letter or message.[↗](../../contact/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To contact someone is to call, write or message them.[↗](../../contact/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A contact is a person you know and can get in touch with, or their details.[↗](../../contact/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Contacts (contact lenses) are small lenses worn on the eyes.[↗](../../contact/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Avoid contact with the hot pan.[↗](../../contact/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Friction is a contact force.[↗](../../contact/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Stay in contact with your group on the trip.[↗](../../contact/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Contact your teacher if you are ill.[↗](../../contact/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Make eye contact when you say hello.[↗](../../contact/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Rugby is a contact sport.[↗](../../contact/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Write your emergency contact on the form.[↗](../../contact/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She wears contacts instead of glasses.[↗](../../contact/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Jurgen had come in contact with this; the tide had driven him against it with great force.[↗](../../contact/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **contagious** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A contagious disease is one that spreads from person to person by touching or being close, such as a cold, flu or chickenpox.[↗](../../contagious/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A contagious person has an illness they can pass on.[↗](../../contagious/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A contagious feeling, laugh or yawn spreads quickly from one person to others.[↗](../../contagious/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Chickenpox is very contagious.[↗](../../contagious/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Stay at home while you are contagious.[↗](../../contagious/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash your hands to stop contagious germs.[↗](../../contagious/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her smile is contagious.[↗](../../contagious/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Yawns are contagious — I just yawned too\![↗](../../contagious/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The doctor said I am no longer contagious.[↗](../../contagious/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · His excitement was contagious, and soon we were all cheering.[↗](../../contagious/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **contain** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To contain means to have something inside.[↗](../../contain/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A box that contains toys has toys in it.[↗](../../contain/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To contain also means to be made of or to include: food that contains sugar.[↗](../../contain/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To contain something is to keep it under control, like containing a fire.[↗](../../contain/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Each box contains 12 crayons.[↗](../../contain/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A bag contains 5 red and 3 blue marbles.[↗](../../contain/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The jar contained 40 cookies.[↗](../../contain/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many pencils do 4 packs contain?[↗](../../contain/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · This cake contains nuts.[↗](../../contain/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Fruit contains vitamins.[↗](../../contain/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The firefighters contained the fire.[↗](../../contain/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The book contains 20 stories.[↗](../../contain/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Before her stood a glass bowl containing four gold-fish.[↗](../../contain/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The disciples of Pythagoras looked upon the decade as a holy number, and swore by it and by the Tetraktys which contain the number ten, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../contain/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../contain/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · \] sions contain only obouth tiOO words of the original Safer (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../contain/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; (Prophets JER.32.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../contain/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and every laver was four cubits; and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.[↗](../../contain/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.7.38, JPS 1917)[↗](../../contain/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded\![↗](../../contain/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.8.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../contain/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) … [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/67/) **68** [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/69/) … [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/99/) - ← previous: [page 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/67/) - next →: [page 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/69/) - ↑ back to [The English 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