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# victuals

«victuals» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **food** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

food

### part of speech

noun, usually plural

### meaning for a pupil

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

### how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say food. The first and third sentences use the old sense of supplies of food.

### examples

- Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase. (Torah LEV.25.37, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/victuals/#x1)
- "Sit down to table and swallow your victuals!" replied the old woman. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/victuals/#x2)
- And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. (Torah GEN.14.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/V/victuals/#x3)

### primary record

victuals

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 14 (Torah 3, tales 11, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

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