Webster
KJV
These Bibles or ...
... Maybe you pick two (KJV vs Young's Literal) if logged in
|
It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
PAGEANT, n. pa'jent. [L. pegma; Gr. something showy carried in triumph.]
A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
"A pageant truly played." Shak.
To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser. An elaborate exhibition devised for the
entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show,
spectacle, or display.
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! Pope. We love the man, the paltry pageant you. Cowper. Of the nature of a
pageant; spectacular.
"Pageant pomp." Dryden. To exhibit in show;
to represent; to mimic.
[R.] "He pageants us."
Shak. | ||||||||