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# victual

«victual» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **food** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

food

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Food, or supplies of food for a journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/victual/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say food.

### examples

- And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way. (Torah GEN.45.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/victual/#x1)
- And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. (Torah EXO.12.39, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/victual/#x2)

### primary record

food

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.363/)
- [Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.770/)
- [And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.646/)
- [And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and oil and wine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.242/)
- [The Rat: «He's always rather low and despondent when he's wanting his victuals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «victual» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/victual/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.