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Find
FIND, v.t. pret. and pp. found. [L. venio; but in sense, with invenio. The primary sense is to come to, to rush, to fall on, to meet, to set on.]
1. Literally, to come to; to meet; hence, to discover by the eye; to gain first sight or knowledge of something lost; to recover either by searching for it or by accident.
Doth she not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? and when she hath found it -
Luke 15.
2. To meet; to discover something not before seen or known.
He saith to him, we have found the Messiah. John 1.
3. To obtain by seeking.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find.
Mat 7.
4. To meet with.
In woods and forests thou art found.
5. To discover or know by experience.
The torrid zone is now found habitable.
6. To reach; to attain to; to arrive at.
Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. Mat 7.
7. To discover by study, experiment or trial. Air and water are found to be compound substances. Alchimists long attempted to find the philosopher's stone, but it is not yet found.
8. To gain; to have; as, to find leisure for a visit.
9. To perceive; to observe; to learn. I found his opinions to accord with my own.
10. To catch; to detect.
When first found in a lie, talk to him of it as a strange monstrous matter.
In this sense find is usually followed by out.
11. To meet.
In ills their business and their glory find.
12. To have; to experience; to enjoy.
Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure. Isa 58.
13. To select; to choose; to designate.
I have found David my servant. Psa 89.
14. To discover and declare the truth of disputed facts; to come to a conclusion and decide between parties, as a jury. The jury find a verdict for the plaintiff or defendant. They find the accused to be guilty.
15. To determine and declare by verdict. The jury have found a large sum in damages for the plaintiff.
16. To establish or pronounce charges alleged to be true. The grand jury have found a bill against the accused, or they find a true bill.
17. To supply; to furnish. Who will find the money or provisions for this expedition? We will find ourselves with provisions and clothing.
18. To discover or gain knowledge of by touching or by sounding. We first sounded and found bottom at the depth of ninety five fathoms on the Sole bank.
To find one's self, to be; to fare in regard to ease or pain, health or sickness. Pray, sir, how do you find yourself this morning.
To find in, to supply; to furnish; to provide.
He finds his nephew in money, victuals and clothes.
1. To find out. To invent; to discover something before unknown.
A man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold - and to find out every device. 2Chon. 2.
2. To unriddle; to solve; as, to find out the meaning of a parable of an enigma.
3. To discover; to obtain knowledge of what is hidden; as, to find out a secret.
4. To understand; to comprehend.
Canst thou by searching find out God? Job 11.
5. To detect; to discover; to bring to light; as, to find out a thief or a theft; to find out a trick.
To find fault with, to blame; to censure.
find appears in definitions for these words:
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Account Advent Alchimy Alligation Allioth Almucantar Assayer Attachment Average Azerit Balance Basalt Beat Betray Bid Bifid Bipennatifid Blame Blamer Blaming Bolt Bottom Bowge Calculate Calculous Camaieu Camayeu Cameo Captious Captiousness Carp Cast Cavil Censure Censured Challenge Chide Club Comparison Compensation Complain Complainer Complaining Complaint Complot Computation Concordance Construction Consultation Contrariety Contrive Convey Convict Convicting Conviction Corsned Cost Crambo Critic Critical Cubature Data Decided Decipher Decry Deny Descant Descry Detect Detecter Detecting Discover Discoverer Discovering Discovery Discuss Distinguish Distress Early Echometer Eddish Eliminate Emblazon Embrace Employ Encouragement Ensearch Entrance Envy Extraction Eye Fall Fand Far Fathom Fault Feel File Find Findy Fissile Fissure Fluxion For Found Foundling Gag Geodesy Glorify Glut Gnomon Gold-finder Good Gordian Grandjuror Graphometer Grope Happy Hardly Heart Heavily Hermeneutics Hit Hoora Immensity Intermix Interpretation Invent Inventing Invention Inventor Investigate Investigation Ivy Judgment Labyrinth Last Leak Leather-seller Level Leveling Light Loose Lose Lost Lvelihood Mainprize Make Manner Market Medial Meek Meet Methodize Middle Migrate Misconstrue Misfortune Mislay Miss Missing Mode Modern Multifid Ne Nibble Nomadize Nomadizing None Obsceneness Observation Obtrude Octofid Odds Opportunity Out Own Pant Partition Pedatifid Person Pervestigate Pick Pinnatifid Plumming Poise Porism Presage Presence Present Presume Price Principally Propension Property Protection Pry Publicly Put Quadratrix Quadrature Quadrifid Quarrel Quarreling Quinquefid Rake Ranforce Rather Re-find Recompense Redress Refuge Relish Renitence Repertitious Repertory Reprisal Resist Resource Rest Rime Root Rule Run Sagacity Salable Sauce Scandalously Sciagraphy Scoff Scold Search Searcher Sector Seek Setter Setting-dog Sham Shift Slander Smell Smellfeast Smoke Specht Stagger Stale Stealth Step Stereometry Stigmatize Strait Studious Swear Synonymous Take Tale Tell Thereupon Thief-taker Tookpick Topic Track Traduction Trial Trifid Trover Truce Tye Undertaking Unto Usually Variable Veneration Verdict Verge Vertigo Vignette Wainage Want Way Welcome Well-water What Where Whomsoever Worm Wretched Wring
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