--- title: E — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 38 description: The 819 words of the English dictionary under E, 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/E/page/38/) [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/) / E # E — The English dictionary · page 38 [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:* Expelling someone is officially making them leave a school, club or country because of bad behaviour.[↗](../../expelling/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Expelling something is forcing it out, such as air from the lungs or gas from an engine.[↗](../../expelling/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The school is expelling him for bullying.[↗](../../expelling/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When you breathe out, you are expelling air from your lungs.[↗](../../expelling/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The volcano was expelling ash for days.[↗](../../expelling/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A rocket moves by expelling hot gas backwards.[↗](../../expelling/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The club is expelling members who cheat.[↗](../../expelling/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Whales blow by expelling air through their blowholes.[↗](../../expelling/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **expend** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) To use or spend energy, time, effort or money.[↗](../../expend/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) To use up completely.[↗](../../expend/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Running expends a lot of energy.[↗](../../expend/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The school expended 500 dollars on new books.[↗](../../expend/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't expend all your effort at the start of the race.[↗](../../expend/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Birds expend energy flying south.[↗](../../expend/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Much time was expended on the project.[↗](../../expend/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The rocket expended all its fuel.[↗](../../expend/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He frisked about the meadow, now here, now there, making sprightly leaps, with as little effort as a bird expends in hopping from twig to twig.[↗](../../expend/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **expenditure** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) The total amount of money spent.[↗](../../expenditure/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) Using up energy, time or effort.[↗](../../expenditure/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The school's expenditure on books was 500 dollars.[↗](../../expenditure/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Income minus expenditure gives your savings.[↗](../../expenditure/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Her weekly expenditure on snacks is 6 dollars.[↗](../../expenditure/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Running uses a big expenditure of energy.[↗](../../expenditure/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The council cut its expenditure.[↗](../../expenditure/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Find the total expenditure if 4 tickets cost 12 dollars each.[↗](../../expenditure/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities, but she disapproved of this lavish expenditure, and did not scruple to warn Noureddin of the probable consequences.[↗](../../expenditure/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **expense** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Expense is the amount of money something costs.[↗](../../expense/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An expense is something you have to pay for.[↗](../../expense/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Expenses are money a worker spends for the job and is paid back for.[↗](../../expense/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* At someone's expense means they paid for it, or that a joke made them look silly.[↗](../../expense/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The new roof was a huge expense.[↗](../../expense/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Food is the family's biggest expense.[↗](../../expense/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum's work pays her travel expenses.[↗](../../expense/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · They laughed at my expense.[↗](../../expense/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The trip was paid for at the school's expense.[↗](../../expense/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Spare no expense for the party\![↗](../../expense/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep a list of your weekly expenses.[↗](../../expense/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I have learned this at my own expense.[↗](../../expense/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber, and let the expenses be given out of the king's house; (Writings EZR.6.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expense/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **expensive** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Expensive means costing a lot of money.[↗](../../expensive/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* That bike is too expensive for me.[↗](../../expensive/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Which toy is more expensive, the robot or the train?[↗](../../expensive/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The robot is $5 more expensive than the train.[↗](../../expensive/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Phones are expensive to fix if you drop them.[↗](../../expensive/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We bought the cheaper one; the other was too expensive.[↗](../../expensive/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Eating out every day is expensive.[↗](../../expensive/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Diamonds are very expensive.[↗](../../expensive/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It was not an expensive piece of wood.[↗](../../expensive/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.[↗](../../expensive/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../expensive/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **experience** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Experience is knowledge or skill you get by doing or seeing things over time.[↗](../../experience/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An experience is something that happens to you, especially something that leaves a strong feeling.[↗](../../experience/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To experience something is to have it happen to you or to feel it.[↗](../../experience/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I know from experience that the bus is often late.[↗](../../experience/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Visiting the zoo was a great experience.[↗](../../experience/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She has a lot of experience with dogs.[↗](../../experience/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Write about an experience that made you proud.[↗](../../experience/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Many animals experience fear during storms.[↗](../../experience/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Camping in the rain was a new experience for us.[↗](../../experience/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He gained experience by helping at the shop.[↗](../../experience/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He had had experience with such birds before.[↗](../../experience/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · I spoke with my own heart, saying: 'Lo, I have gotten great wisdom, more also than all that were before me over Jerusalem'; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.[↗](../../experience/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings ECC.1.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../experience/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **experiment** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A test done carefully to find out something, check an idea, or see what happens.[↗](../../experiment/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To try new things or ideas to see what they are like (experiment with colours).[↗](../../experiment/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A new way of doing something that is being tried out.[↗](../../experiment/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We did an experiment to see which ball bounces highest.[↗](../../experiment/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In a fair experiment, you only change one thing.[↗](../../experiment/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Write down your prediction before the experiment.[↗](../../experiment/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She experimented with different colours in her painting.[↗](../../experiment/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Never mix cleaning products as an experiment — it can make poison gas.[↗](../../experiment/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The experiment showed that plants grow towards the light.[↗](../../experiment/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Let's experiment with the recipe and add some cinnamon.[↗](../../experiment/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He split the second bulrush as an experiment and just the same thing happened.[↗](../../experiment/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **experimental** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Experimental means to do with experiments, tests done to find something out («experimental results»).[↗](../../experimental/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Experimental means new and still being tested, not yet proved to work («an experimental drug», «an experimental plane»).[↗](../../experimental/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Experimental art, music or writing tries new, unusual ways.[↗](../../experimental/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Write your experimental results in a table.[↗](../../experimental/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The experimental method helps us test ideas fairly.[↗](../../experimental/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The plane is experimental and has never carried passengers.[↗](../../experimental/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Doctors tried an experimental medicine.[↗](../../experimental/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The band plays strange, experimental music.[↗](../../experimental/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our experimental group of plants got extra light.[↗](../../experimental/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The new timetable is only experimental for this term.[↗](../../experimental/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **experimentation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Experimentation is the process of trying out experiments to test ideas and find things out.[↗](../../experimentation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* It can also mean trying new and different ways of doing things to see what works.[↗](../../experimentation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Through experimentation, we found which paper towel soaked up the most water.[↗](../../experimentation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Science moves forward through careful experimentation.[↗](../../experimentation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The chef loves experimentation with new flavours.[↗](../../experimentation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · People disagree about animal experimentation.[↗](../../experimentation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The band's new album shows a lot of experimentation.[↗](../../experimentation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Experimentation taught her that the plant grew best near the window.[↗](../../experimentation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **experimenter** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who does experiments, especially in science.[↗](../../experimenter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person who likes trying new things to see what happens.[↗](../../experimenter/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The experimenter measured the water every hour.[↗](../../experimenter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A good experimenter changes only one thing at a time.[↗](../../experimenter/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Alice became an experimenter with the little cakes.[↗](../../experimenter/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The experimenter wrote the results in a table.[↗](../../experimenter/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Benjamin Franklin was a famous experimenter with electricity.[↗](../../experimenter/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Be a careful experimenter and wear safety goggles.[↗](../../experimenter/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **expert** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who knows a lot about a subject or is very skilled at something.[↗](../../expert/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Very skilled or knowing a lot (an expert swimmer).[↗](../../expert/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My uncle is an expert on spiders.[↗](../../expert/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She is an expert at chess.[↗](../../expert/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask an expert before you touch electrical wires.[↗](../../expert/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · After the project, Sam was the class expert on volcanoes.[↗](../../expert/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Experts say children need about ten hours of sleep.[↗](../../expert/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He is an expert swimmer.[↗](../../expert/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Practise a lot and one day you could be an expert too.[↗](../../expert/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The Caliph took one of the olives, tasted it, and ordered the expert merchants to do the same.[↗](../../expert/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · They all handle the sword, and are expert in war; every man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of dread in the night.[↗](../../expert/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.3.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expert/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **expertise** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Special skill or knowledge in a subject that comes from study, training or experience, as in «medical expertise».[↗](../../expertise/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The vet has expertise in treating horses.[↗](../../expertise/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran's baking expertise is legendary.[↗](../../expertise/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We needed someone with computer expertise to fix the problem.[↗](../../expertise/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her expertise in maths helped the team win the quiz.[↗](../../expertise/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Building a bridge takes a lot of expertise.[↗](../../expertise/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask the coach — football is his area of expertise.[↗](../../expertise/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **expiate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To make up for a wrong or sin by suffering or doing something good, so that the guilt is removed.[↗](../../expiate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He tried to expiate his crime by giving his gold to the poor.[↗](../../expiate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The king expiated his sin with years of penance.[↗](../../expiate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Only a kind deed can expiate that wrong.[↗](../../expiate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.[↗](../../expiate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.16.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expiate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · and he touched my mouth with it, and said: Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.[↗](../../expiate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.6.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expiate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.'[↗](../../expiate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.3.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expiate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **expiation** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A making up for wrong, so that the wrong is forgiven.[↗](../../expiation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Sing aloud, O ye nations, of His people; for He doth avenge the blood of His servants, and doth render vengeance to His adversaries, and doth make expiation for the land of His people.[↗](../../expiation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.32.43, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expiation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **expire** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* When something expires, it stops being valid or usable after a certain time, like a ticket, card or password.[↗](../../expire/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Food or medicine that has expired is past the date it is safe or best to use.[↗](../../expire/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In old or formal English, to expire means to die.[↗](../../expire/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* When a sound or echo expires, it fades away and stops being heard.[↗](../../expire/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My bus pass expired last week.[↗](../../expire/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Check the milk; it might have expired.[↗](../../expire/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The coupon expires at the end of the month.[↗](../../expire/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Your password has expired; please make a new one.[↗](../../expire/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't take medicine that has expired.[↗](../../expire/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The parking time expired, so they got a ticket.[↗](../../expire/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old story, the knight expired after the battle.[↗](../../expire/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And the horn sounded faint and more faintly, and the convent bell drowned its expiring echoes."[↗](../../expire/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.[↗](../../expire/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../expire/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **expired** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (euphemism, medical or formal) died.[↗](../../expired/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* came to the end of the time it is valid or allowed: «My passport has expired».[↗](../../expired/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (of food or medicine) past its use-by or best-before date and not safe or good to use.[↗](../../expired/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (formal, science) breathed out.[↗](../../expired/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* dead; passed away.[↗](../../expired/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The patient expired early in the morning, the nurse wrote in the chart.[↗](../../expired/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My library card has expired, so I need a new one.[↗](../../expired/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't drink that milk; it's expired.[↗](../../expired/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Your password has expired; please choose a new one.[↗](../../expired/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The parking ticket expired ten minutes ago and we got a fine.[↗](../../expired/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The offer expires at midnight.[↗](../../expired/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old play, the king groans and then expires on the stage.[↗](../../expired/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "The hamster has, um, expired," said Dad, trying to break it gently.[↗](../../expired/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Shortly afterwards he expired, leaving universal regret throughout the kingdom; rich and poor alike followed him to the grave.[↗](../../expired/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.[↗](../../expired/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.25.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expired/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.[↗](../../expired/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.35.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expired/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.[↗](../../expired/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.49.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expired/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And the days were not expired; (Prophets 1SA.18.26, JPS 1917)[↗](../../expired/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.[↗](../../expired/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.25.8, JPS 1917) · Then she returned home, bought a coffin, lay down in it, and straightway expired.[↗](../../expired/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired.[↗](../../expired/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) **expiry** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Expiry is the end of the time when something can be used or is valid, such as a ticket, card or passport.[↗](../../expiry/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The «expiry date» is the last day food, medicine or a card should be used (UK, Australia, Ireland, NZ; in the US often «expiration date»).[↗](../../expiry/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Check the expiry date on the milk before you drink it.[↗](../../expiry/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My library card is near its expiry.[↗](../../expiry/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Do not use medicine after its expiry date.[↗](../../expiry/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The coupon has an expiry date at the end of the month.[↗](../../expiry/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum renewed her passport before its expiry.[↗](../../expiry/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The yoghurt was past its expiry, so we threw it away.[↗](../../expiry/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **explain** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To make something clear or easy to understand by describing it.[↗](../../explain/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To give a reason for something: «Can you explain why you were late?».[↗](../../explain/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Can you explain how you got 24?[↗](../../explain/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher explained the rules of the game.[↗](../../explain/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Please explain why you were late.[↗](../../explain/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Explain your answer with a picture.[↗](../../explain/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I'll explain it again more slowly.[↗](../../explain/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you explain how a rainbow forms?[↗](../../explain/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She explained the problem to her mum.[↗](../../explain/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · There's no need to explain — I understand.[↗](../../explain/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · I cannot explain more at present.[↗](../../explain/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Hermetic rituals explain this Yetziratic attri- bution.[↗](../../explain/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../explain/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · This idea is then symbolically explained in the next paragraph.[↗](../../explain/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../explain/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · This passage is explained by Isaac Satanow in his Hebrew Dictionary entitled Sephath Emeth, p. 44, b: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../explain/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **explanation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An explanation is what you say or write to make something clear and easy to understand: an explanation of how plants grow.[↗](../../explanation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An explanation is a reason given for something that happened: is there an explanation for why you are late?[↗](../../explanation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The teacher gave a clear explanation of fractions.[↗](../../explanation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you give me an explanation for being late?[↗](../../explanation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Write an explanation of how the water cycle works.[↗](../../explanation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · There must be a simple explanation for the strange noise.[↗](../../explanation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In maths, show your working and an explanation.[↗](../../explanation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He left without any explanation.[↗](../../explanation/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists look for an explanation that fits the evidence.[↗](../../explanation/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "Princess," exclaimed the nurse, "we cannot tell what you allude to without more explanation."[↗](../../explanation/#x8 "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 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