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PRE'CIOUS, a. [L. pretiosus, from pretium, price. See Praise.]

1. Of great price; costly; as a precious stone.

2. Of great value or worth; very valuable.

She is more precious than rubies. Prov.3.

3. Highly valued; much esteemed.

The word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision. 1 Sam.3.

4. Worthless; in irony and contempt.

Precious metals, gold and silver, so called on account of their value.



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PRE'CIOUS, a. [L. pretiosus, from pretium, price. See Praise.]

1. Of great price; costly; as a precious stone.

2. Of great value or worth; very valuable.

She is more precious than rubies. Prov.3.

3. Highly valued; much esteemed.

The word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision. 1 Sam.3.

4. Worthless; in irony and contempt.

Precious metals, gold and silver, so called on account of their value.


PRE'CIOUS, a. [Fr. precieux; L. pretiosus, from pretium, price. See Praise.]

  1. One of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.
  2. Of great value or worth; very valuable. She is more precious than rubies. – Prov. iii.
  3. Highly valued; much esteemed. The word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision. – 1 Sam. iii.
  4. Worthless; in irony and contempt. Precious metals, gold and silver, so called on account of their value.

Pre"cious
  1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.

    "The precious bane." Milton.
  2. Particular; fastidious; overnice; overrefined. Cf. Précieuse, Preciosity.

    Lest that precious folk be with me wroth. Chaucer.

    Elaborate embroidery of precious language. Saintsbury.

  3. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.

    She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15.

    Many things which are most precious are neglected only because the value of them lieth hid. Hooker.

    Also used ironically; as, a precious rascal.

  4. Particular; fastidious; overnice.

    [Obs.]

    Lest that precious folk be with me wroth. Chaucer.

    Precious metals, the uncommon and highly valuable metals, esp. gold and silver. -- Precious stones, gems; jewels.

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Precious

PRE'CIOUS, adjective [Latin pretiosus, from pretium, price. See Praise.]

1. Of great price; costly; as a precious stone.

2. Of great value or worth; very valuable.

She is more precious than rubies. Proverbs 3:15.

3. Highly valued; much esteemed.

The word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision. 1 Samuel 3:1.

4. Worthless; in irony and contempt.

Precious metals, gold and silver, so called on account of their value.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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AM'PLITUDE, n. [L. amplitudo, from amplus, large.]

1. Largeness; extent, applied to bodies; as, the amplitude of the earth.

2. Largeness; extent of capacity or intellectual powers; as, amplitude of mind.

3. Extent of means or power; abundance; sufficiency.

Amplitude, in astronomy, is an arch of the horizon intercepted between the east and west point, and the center of the sun or star at its rising or setting. At the rising of a star, the amplitude is eastern or ortive; at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

Amplitude of the range, in projectiles, is the horizontal line subtending the path of a body thrown, or the line which measures the distance it has moved.

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