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1. A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
2. A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.
Viol
Encyclopedia Britannica
VIOL. See Violin.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 24, p. 241
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1. A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
2. An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.
Resembling violets.
1. Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
2. Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
A complex nitrogenous substance, produced as a yellow crystalline substance, and regarded as a complex derivative of barbituric acid.
A yellow crystalline glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin.
3. To break; to infringe; to transgress; as, to violate the laws of the state, or the rules of good breeding; to violate the divine commands; to violate one's vows or promises. Promises and commands may be violated negatively, by non-observance.
4. To injure; to do violence to.
5. Forbid to violate the sacred fruit.
1. To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
Injured; broken; transgressed; ravished.
2. Infringement; transgression; non-observance; as the violation of law or positive command; a violation of covenants, engagements and promises; a violation of vows.
3. Act of irreverence; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as the violation of a church.
4. Ravishment; rape.
2. Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc.
3. An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.
4. Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.
2. One who infringes or transgresses; as a violator of law.
3. One who profanes or treats with irreverence; as a violator of sacred things.
4. A ravisher.
1. Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.
2. Moral force; vehemence. The critic attacked the work with violence
3. Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds.
4. The earth was filled with violence Genesis 6:11 .
5. Eagerness; vehemence.
6. You ask with violence
7. Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.
8. Injury; hurt.
9. Do violence to no man. Luke 3:14 .
10. Ravishment; rape.
11. To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder.
12. But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
1. [Latin violentus.
2. Forcible; moving or acting with physical strength; urged or driven with force; as a violent wind; a violent stream; a violent assault or blow; a violent conflict.
3. Vehement; outrageous; as a violent attack on the minister.
4. Produced or continued by force; not spontaneous or natural.
5. No violent state can be perpetual.
6. Produced by violence; not natural; as a violent death.
7. Acting by violence; assailant; not authorized.
8. Some violent hands were laid on Humphry's life.
10. We might be reckoned fierce and violent
11. Severe; extreme; as violent pains.
12. Extorted; not voluntary.
13. Vows made in pain, are violent and void.
14. Violent presumption, in law, is presumption that arises from circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. Such circumstances being proved, the mind infers with confidence that the fact has taken place, and this confidence is a violent presumption, which amounts to proof.
1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
To be violent; to act violently.
1. With force; forcibly; vehemently; as, the wind blows violently
2. Forfeitures must not be exacted violently
In a violent manner.
Tending to a violet color; violascent.
Musical Instruments Roget’s Thesaurus §417
N. musical instruments, band, string- band, brass-band, orchestra, orchestrina, monochord, polychord, harp, lyre, lute, archlute, mandola, mandolin, mandoline, guitar, zither, cither, cithern, gittern, rebeck, bandurria, bandura, banjo, bina, vina, xanorphica, viol, violin, fiddle, kit, viola, viola d'amore, viola di gamba, tenor, cremona, violoncello, bass, bass viol, base viol, theorbo, double base, contrabasso, violone, *psaltery, bow, fiddlestick, piano, pianoforte, harpsichord, clavichord, clarichord, manichord, clavier, spinet, virginals, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vielle, pianino, eolian harp, organ, harmonium, harmoniphon, american organ, barrel organ, hand organ, accordion, seraphina, concertina, humming top, flute, fife, piccolo, flageolet, clarinet, claronet, basset horn, corno di bassetto, oboe, hautboy, cor anglais, corno inglese, bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto, serpent, bass clarinet, bagpipes, union pipes, musette, ocarina, pandean pipes, reed instrument, sirene, pipe, pitch-pipe, sourdet, whistle, catcall, doodlesack, harmoniphone, horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean|, clarion, trumpet, trombone, ophicleide, french horn, saxophone, sax, buglehorn, saxhorn, flugelhorn, althorn, helicanhorn, posthorn, sackbut, euphonium, bombardon tuba, cymbal, bell, gong, tambour|, tambourine, tamborine, drum, tom-tom, tabor, tabret, tabourine, taborin, side drum, kettle drum, timpani, tympani, tymbal, timbrel, castanet, bones, musical glasses, musical stones, harmonica, sounding-board, rattle, tam-tam, zambomba, reed, tuning fork, triangle, jew's harp, musical box, harmonicon, xylophone, sordine, sordet, sourdine, sourdet, mute, (iv) perception of sound
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The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
If someone sins and violates any of the LORD’s commandments even though he was unaware, he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid and trembled violently.
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.