A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
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Front.
The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
Facciolati
Encyclopedia Britannica
FACCIOLATI, Jacopo (1682-1769), was born at Torig-gia, in the province of Padua, in 1682. He owed his admission to the seminary of Padua to Cardinal Barberigo, who had formed a high opinion of the boy’s talents. As professor of logic, and regent of the schools, Facciolati was the ornament of the Paduan university during a period of forty-five years. He published improved editions of several philological works, such as the Thesaurus Ciceronianus of Nizolius, and the polyglot vocabulary known under the name of Calepino. The latter work, in which he was assisted by his pupil Forcellini, he completed in four years —1715 to 1719. It was written in seven languages, and suggested to the editor the idea of his opus magnum, the Totius Latinitatis Lexicon, 4 vols, fol., Padua, 1771. In the compilation of this work the chief burden seems to have been borne by Facciolati’s pupil Forcellini, to whom, however, the lexicographer allows a very scanty measure of justice, though the work occupied thirty years of his life. Perhaps the best testimony to the learning and industry of the compiler is the well-known observation that the whole body of Latinity, if it were to perish, might be restored from this lexicon. Facciolati’s mastery of Latin style, as displayed in his epistles, has been very much admired for its purity and grace. In or about 1739 Facciolati undertook the continuation of Papadopoli’s history of the university of Padua, carrying it on to his own day. Facciolati was known over all Europe as one of the most enlightened and zealous teachers of the time; and among the many flattering invitations which he received, but always declined, was one from the king of Portugal, to accept the directorship of a college at Lisbon for the young nobility. He died in 1769. His ...history of the university was published in 1757, under the name Fasti Gymnasii Patavini. In 1808 a volume containing nine of his Epistles, never before published, was issued at Padua.
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1. In a general sense, the surface of a thing, or the side which presents itself to the view of a spectator; as the face of the earth; the face of the waters.
2. A part of the surface of a thing; or the plane surface of a solid. Thus, a cube or die has six faces an octahedron has eight faces.
3. The surface of the fore part of an animals head, particularly of the human head; the visage.
4. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Genesis 3:19 .
5. Joseph bowed himself with his face to the earth. Genesis 48:11 .
6. Countenance; cast of features; look; air of the face
7. We set the best face on it we could.
8. The front of a thing; the forepart; the flat surface that presents itself first to view; as the face of a house. Ezekiel 41:14 .
9. Visible state; appearance.
10. This would produce a new face of things in Europe.
11. Appearance; look.
12. Nor heaven, nor sea, their former face retained.
13. His dialogue has the face of probability.
14. State of confrontation. The witnesses were presented face to face
15. Confidence; boldness; impudence; a bold front.
16. He has the face to charge others with false citations.
17. Presence; sight; as in the phrases, before the face in the face to the face from the face
18. The person.
19. I had not thought to see thy face Genesis 48:11 .
20. In scripture, face is used for anger or favor.
21. Hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne. Revelations 6.
22. Make thy face to shine on thy servant. Psalms 31:16 .
23. How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? Psalms 13:1 .
24. Hence, to seek the face that is, to pray to, to seek the favor of.
25. To set the face against, is to oppose.
26. To accept ones face is to show him favor or grant his request. So, to entreat the face is to ask favor; but these phrases are nearly obsolete.
28. FACE to face
29. When both parties are present; as, to have accusers face to face Acts 25:16 .
30. Nakedly; without the interposition of any other body.
31. Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face 1 Corinthians 13:12 .
1. To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.
2. To lie, to face to forge.
3. To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.
1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.
2. I'll face this tempest, and deserve the name of king.
3. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front towards. The colleges in New Haven face the public square.
4. To cover with additional superficies; to cover in front; as a fortification faced with marble; to face a garment with silk.
5. To face down, to oppose boldly or impudently.
1. The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator.
2. That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.
3. The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object.
5. The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
6. The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc.
7. The style or cut of a type or font of type.
8. Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired.
9. That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance.
10. Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance.
11. Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac.
12. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery.
13. Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of.
14. Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
15. The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done.
16. The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount.
1. To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.
2. To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.
3. To present a face or front.
1. To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.
3. To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park.
4. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.
5. To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.
6. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
7. To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.
8. To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
Face
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
Moses begs of God to show him his face, or to manifest his glory; he replies, “I will make all my goodness pass before thee,” and I will proclaim my name; “but my face thou canst not see; for there shall no man see it and live!” The persuasion was very prevalent in the world, that no man could support the sight of Deity, Genesis xvi, 13; xxxii, 30; Exod. xx, 19; xxiv, 11; Judges vi, 22, 23. We read that God spake mouth to mouth with Moses, even apparently, and not in dark speeches, Numbers xii, 8; “The Canaanites have heard that thou art among thy people, and seen face to face,” Numbers xiv, 14. God talked with the Hebrews “face to face out of the midst of the fire,” Deut. v, 4. All these places are to be understood simply, that God so manifested himself to the Israelites, that he made them hear his voice as distinctly as if he had appeared to them face to face; but not that they actually saw more than the cloud of glory which marked his presence. The face of God denotes sometimes his anger: “The face of the Lord is against them that do evil.” “As wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish before the face of God,” Psalm lxviii, 2. To turn the face upon any one, especially when connected with the light or shining of the countenance, are beautiful representations of the divine kindness and condescension. To regard the face of any one, is to have respect of persons, Proverbs xxviii, 21. The Apostle, speaking of the difference between our knowledge of God here and in heaven, says, “Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face,” 1 Cor. xiii, 12; by which he shows the vast difference between our seeing or knowing God and divine things by an imperfect revelation to faith, and by direct vision. This observation of the Apostle ...is rendered the more striking, when it is recollected that the Roman glass was not fully transparent as ours, but dull and clouded. Of this, specimens may be seen in the glass vessels taken out of Pompeii.
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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Covered in front. In composition, denoting the kind of face; as full-faced.
Having (such) a face, or (so many) faces; as, smooth-faced, two-faced.
Without a face.
A painter of portraits; one who draws the likeness of the face.
The act or art of painting portraits.
1. A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
2. A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.
3. The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
4. One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.
To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.
Having facets.
Wit; pleasant representation. [Not used.]
2. Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.
The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.
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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.