1. Strong; powerful; hardy; bold; audacious.
2. See Stoor.
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Storace
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STORACE, Stephen (1763-1796), dramatic composer, was born in London in 1763. His father, Stefano Storace, an Italian contrabassist, taught him the violin so well that at ten years old he played successfully the most difficult music of the day. After completing his education at the Conservatorio di Sant’ Onofrio at Naples, he produced his first opera, Gli Sposi Malcontenti, at Vienna, in 1785. Here he made the acquaintance of Mozart, in whose Nozze di Figaro his sister, Anna Selina Storace, first sang the part of Susanna. Here also he produced a second opera, Gli Equivoci, founded on Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, and a “Singspiel” entitled Der Doctor und der Apotheker. But his greatest triumphs were achieved in England, whither he returned in 1787. After creating a favourable impression by bringing out his “Singspiel” at Drury Lane, under the title of The Doctor and the Apothecary, Storace attained his first great success in 1789, in The Haunted Tower, a genuine English opera, which ran for fifty nights in succession, and retained its popularity long after the opening of the present century. No Song No Supper was equally successful in 1790; and The Siege of Belgrade scarcely less so in 1791. The music of The Pirates, produced in 1792, was partly adapted from Gli Equivoci, and is remarkable as affording one of the earliest instances of the introduction of a grand finale into an English opera. These works were followed by some less successful productions; but The Cherokee (1794) and The Three and the Deuce (1795) were very favourably received, and the music to Colman’s play, The Iron Chest, first performed March 12, 1796, created even a greater sensation than The Haunted Tower. This was Storace’s last work. He caught cold at the rehearsal, and died in ...consequence, March 19, 1796.
The character of Storace’s music is pre-eminently English; but his early intercourse with Mozart gave him an immense advantage over his contemporaries in his management of the orchestra, while for the excellence of his method of writing for the voice he was no doubt largely indebted to the charming vocalization of his sister Anna. This lady, who has attained lasting honour as the original representative of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, was born in London in 1766, completed her education at Venice under Sacchini, sang for Mozart at Vienna, and first appeared at the King’s Theatre in London in 1787. After contributing greatly to the success of The Haunted Tower and her brother’s later operas, she crowned a long and brilliant career by winning great laurels at the Handel Commemoration at Westminster Abbey in 1791, retired from public life in 1808, and died August 24, 1817. During her stay in Vienna she married John Abraham Fisher, a celebrated violinist; but he used her so cruelly that she refused to bear his name, and in her will—bequeathing property to the amount of £50,000—styled herself “spinster.”
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 576
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1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; or the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
2. The price charge or paid for keeping goods in a store.
1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
2. Space for the safe keeping of goods.
3. The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
1. A plant or tree; also, a resinous and odoriferous drug brought from Turkey, but generally adulterated. It imparts to water a yellow color, and has been deemed a resolvent.
2. STORAX is a solid balsam, either in red tears, or in large cakes, brittle, but soft to the touch, and of a reddish brown color. It is obtained from the Styrax officinalis, a tree which grows in the Levant. Liquid storax or styrax, is a liquid or semifluid balsam, said to be obtained from the Liquidamber styraciflua, a tree which grows in Virginia. It is greenish, of an aromatic taste, and agreeable smell.
Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.
Storax
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STORAX. It has been explained in Incense (vol. xii. p. 718) and Liquidambar (vol. xiv. p. 687) that the storax of commerce and the pharmacopceia (used as an emollient) is derived from the Oriental liquidambar tree. The storax of the ancients, on the other hand, a solid gum which does not now occur in commerce, appears to have been the product of the beautiful white-flowered shrub Styrax officinalis, which is still common on Carmel and elsewhere in Syria. It was much used as an incense, and formed an early and important article of Phoenician trade (see Movers, Phönizier, ii. 3. 101, 223 sq.). It is probable that the Greek word στύραξ is of Semitic origin, representing the Hebrew צרי, which the English version renders “balm” (Lagarde, Mittheilungen, p. 234 sqj).
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 577
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1. A large number; as a store of years.
2. A large quantity; great plenty; abundance; as a store of wheat or provisions.
3. A stock provided; a large quantity for supply; ample abundance. The troops have great stores of provisions and ammunition. The ships have stores for a long voyage. [This the present usual acceptation of the word, and in this sense the plural, stores, is commonly used. When applied to a single article of supply, it is still sometimes used in the singular; as a good store of wine or of bread.]
4. Quantity accumulated; fund; abundance; as stores of knowledge.
5. A storehouse; a magazine; a warehouse. Nothing can be more convenient than the stores on Central wharf in Boston.
6. In the United States, shops for the sale of goods of any kind, by wholesale or retail, are often called stores.
1. To furnish; to supply; to replenish.
2. Wise Plato said the world with men was stord.
3. Her mind with thousand virtues stord.
4. To stock against a future time; as a garrison well stored with provisions.
1. That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
2. A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
4. Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
5. To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
6. To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
1. A building for keeping grain or goods of any kind; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
2. Joseph opened all the store-houses and sold to the Egyptians. Genesis 41:1 .
3. A repository.
4. The Scripture of God is a store-house abounding with inestimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
5. A great mass reposited. [Not in use.]
A man who has the care of a store.
1. Furnished; supplied.
2. Laid up in store; warehoused.
Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.
1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
2. A mass or quality laid up.
1. A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
2. One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.
One who lays op or forms a store.
One who lays up or forms a store.
Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.
A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.
Historical. [Not in use.]
Historical.
1. Furnished with stories; adorned with historical paintings.
3. Related in story; told or recited in history.
1. Told in a story.
2. Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.
3. Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house.
A relater of stories; a historian. [Not in use.]
A relater of stories; an historian.
To form or tell stories. [Not in use.]
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87 KJV and 104 BSB verses contain “Stor” — showing the first 20. Show all 163 verses (searchable)
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?