victuals

«victuals» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: food — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

food

part of speech

noun, usually plural

meaning for a pupil

Food and drink, or supplies of food. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say food. The first and third sentences use the old sense of supplies of food.

examples

• Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase. (Torah LEV.25.37, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Sit down to table and swallow your victuals!" replied the old woman. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. (Torah GEN.14.11, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

victuals

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 14 (Torah 3, tales 11, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 7.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
• Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.
• And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.'
• The Rat: «He's always rather low and despondent when he's wanting his victuals.

Trees and pragmatics

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