matter

«matter» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: affair, thing; subject — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

affair, thing; subject

part of speech

noun (matter, matters); verb (matter, matters, mattered)

meaning for a pupil

An affair or subject of concern, or a thing being discussed. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "matter" usually means a problem or substance, as in "there's something the matter". In the first sentence it means an affair or business, which is an old sense.

examples

• And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. (Torah GEN.24.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• There's nothing the matter with me. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• A cipher for the matter: twenty-two (numbers) [objects] in one body. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

primary record

matter

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 773 (Torah 18, tales 741, Sefer Yetzirah 14); EWT 22; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 0.9); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
• And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
• Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.
• Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
• But the lad knew not any thing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «matter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.