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Ill [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Not well; not rightly or perfectly.

2. He is ill at ease.

3. Not easily; with pain or difficulty. He is ill able to sustain the burden.

4. Ill bears the sex the youthful lovers' fate,

5. When just approaching to the nuptial state.

6. ILL , prefixed to participles of the present tense, and denoting evil or wrong, may be considered as a noun governed by the participle, or as making a part of a compound word; as an ill meaning man, an ill designing man, an ill boding hour; that is, a man meaning ill an hour boding ill It is more consonant, however, to the genius of our language, to treat these and similar words as compounds. In some cases, as before the participles of intransitive verbs, ill must be considered as a part of the compound, as in ill-looking. When used before the perfect participle, ill is to be considered as an adverb, or modifying word, or to be treated as a part of the compound; as in ill-bred, ill-governed, ill-fated, ill-favored, ill-formed, ill-minded. In these and all similar connections, it might be well to unite the two words in a compound by a hyphen. As ill may be prefixed to almost any participle, it is needless to attempt to collect a list of such words for insertion.

Ill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Bad or evil, in a general sense; contrary to good, physical or moral; applied to things; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitous; as, his ways are ill; he sets an ill example.

2. Producing evil or misfortune; as an ill star or planet.

3. Bad; evil; unfortunate; as an ill end; an ill fate.

4. Unhealthy; insalubrious; as an ill air or climate.

5. Cross; crabbed; surly; peevish; as ill nature; ill temper.

6. Diseased; disordered; sick or indisposed; applied to persons; as, the man is ill; he has been ill a long time; he is ill of a fever.

7. Diseased; impaired; as an ill state of health.

8. Discordant; harsh; disagreeable; as an ill sound.

9. Homely; ugly; as ill looks, or an ill countenance.

10. Unfavorable; suspicious; as when we say, this affair bears an ill look or aspect.

11. Rude; unpolished; as ill breeding; ill manners.

12. Not proper; not regular or legitimate; as an ill expression in grammar.

13. Wickedness; depravity; evil.

14. Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still,

15. Exerts itself and then throws off the ill

16. Misfortune; calamity; evil; disease; pain; whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success.

17. Who can all sense of other's ills escape,

18. Is but a brute at beat in human shape.

Ill [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.

2. Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper.

3. Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever.

4. Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant.

Ill [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a ill manner; badly; weakly.

Ill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity.

2. Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil.

Ill-boding [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened.

Ill-bred [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Not well bred; unpolite.

Ill-bred [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

Ill-breeding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Want of good breeding; unpoliteness.

Ill-conditioned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Being in bad order or state.

Ill-favored [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Ugly; ill-looking; wanting beauty; deformed.

2. Ill-favored and lean fleshed. Genesis 41:1 .

Ill-favored [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking.

Ill-favoredly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. With deformity.

2. Roughly; rudely.

Ill-favoredness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Ugliness; deformity.

Ill-judged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not well judged; unwise.

Ill-lived [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Leading a wicked life. [Little used.]

Ill-lived [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Leading a wicked life.

Ill-looking [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.

Ill-mannered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Impolite; rude.

Ill-minded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ill-disposed.

Ill-nature [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Crossness; crabbedness; habitual bad temper, or want of kindness; fractiousness.

Ill-natured [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Cross, crabbed; surly; intractable; of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious. An ill-natured person may disturb the harmony of a whole parish.

2. That indicates ill-nature.

3. The ill-natured task refuse.

4. Intractable; not yielding to culture; as ill-natured land. [Not legitimate.]

Ill-natured [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person.

2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful.

3. Intractable; not yielding to culture.

Ill-naturedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a peevish or forward manner; crossly; unkindly.

Ill-naturedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Crossness; want of a kind disposition.

Ill-nurtured [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ill-bred.

Ill-omened [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv.

Ill-starred [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day.

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Genesis 41:3

And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.

After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.

Genesis 41:4

And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up,

Genesis 41:19

And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!

Genesis 41:20

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.

Genesis 41:21

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.

Genesis 41:27

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.

Genesis 43:6

And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

“Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”

Genesis 48:1

And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Exodus 22:9

For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, ‘This is mine,’ both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must pay back double to his neighbor.

Exodus 25:37

And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.

Deuteronomy 15:21

And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 23:2

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

1 Samuel 19:14

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”

1 Samuel 30:13

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.

2 Samuel 12:15

And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

2 Samuel 13:5

And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.

Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”

2 Samuel 13:6

So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”

1 Kings 14:1

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,

1 Kings 14:5

And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”

1 Kings 17:17

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.