Continue - CONTINUE, v.i. [L., to hold. See Tenet.]
1. To remain in a state, or place; to abide for any time indefinitely.
The multitude continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. Mat 15.
2. To last; to be durable; to endure; to be permanent.
Thy kingdom shall not continue. 1 Sam 13.
3. To persevere; to be steadfast or constant in any course.
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John 8.
CONTINUE, v.t.
1. To protract; not to cease from or to terminate.
O continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee. Psa 36.
2. To extend from one thing to another; to produce or draw out in length. Continue the line from A to B. Let the line be continued to the boundary.
3. To persevere in; not to cease to do or use; as, to continue the same diet.
4. To hold to or unite. [Not used.]
The navel continues the infant to its mother.
Convert - CONVERT, v.t. [L., to turn; coinciding in elements and signification with barter.]
1. To change or turn into another substance or form; as, to convert gases into water, or water into ice.
2. To change from one state to another; as, to convert a barren waste into a fruitful field; to convert a wilderness into a garden; to convert rude savages into civilized men.
3. To change or turn from one religion to another, or from one party or sect to another; as, to convert pagans to Christianity; to convert royalists into republicans.
4. To turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character, from enmity to God and from vicious habits, to love of God and to a holy life.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Acts 3.
He that converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death. James 5.
5. To turn toward a point.
Crystal will callify into electricity, and convert the needle freely placed. [Unusual.]
6. To turn from one use or destination to another; as, to convert liberty into an engine of oppression.
7. To appropriate or apply to ones own use, or to personal benefit; as, to convert public property to our own use.
8. To change one proposition into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second; as, all sin is a transgression of the law; but every transgression of the law is sin.
9. To turn into another language.
CONVERT, v.i. To turn or be changed; to undergo a change.
The love of wicked friends converts to fear; that fear, to hate.
CONVERT, n.
1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who renounces one creed, religious system or party, and embraces another; applied particularly to those who change their religious opinions, but applicable to political and philosophical sects.
2. In a more strict sense, one who is turned from sin to holiness.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. Isa 1.
3. In monasteries, a lay-friar or brother, admitted to the service of the house, without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
Cord - CORD, n. [L. Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]
1. A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Rahab let down the spies by a cord through the window. Josh 2.
2. A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line. The cord is a pile containing 128 cubic feet; or a pile eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad.
3. In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psa 129.
The cords of sin are bad habits, or the consequences of sin. Prov 5.
The cords of a man are the fair, gentle or natural means of alluring men to obedience. Hosea 11.
The cords of vanity are worldly vanities and pleasures, profit or preferment; or vain and deceitful arguments and pretenses, which draw men to sin. Isa 5.
To stretch a line or cord about a city, is to level it, or utterly to destroy it. Lam 2.
The cords of a tent denote stability. To loosen or break the cords, is to weaken or destroy; to lengthen the cords, is to enlarge. Job 30. Isa 54. Jer 10.
CORD, v.t.
1. To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.
2. To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord
Cornfloor - CORNFLOOR, n. A floor for corn, or for thrashing corn. Isa 21. Hosea 9
Corrupt - CORRUPT, v.t. [L., to break.] Literally, to break, separate or dissolve. Hence,
1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to separate the component parts of a body, as by a natural process, which accompanied by a fetid smell.
2. To vitiate or deprave; to change from good to bad.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Cor 15.
3. To waste, spoil or consume.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Mat 6.
4. To defile or pollute. Exo 32.
5. To entice from good and allure to evil. 2 Cor 11.
6. To pervert; to break, disobey or make void. Mal 2.
7. To pervert or vitiate integrity; to bribe; as, to corrupt a judge.
8. To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations; as, to corrupt language.
9. To pervert; to falsify; to infect with errors; as, to corrupt the sacred text.
CORRUPT, v.i.
1. To become putrid; to putrefy; to rot. Animal and vegetable substances speedily corrupt in a warm and moist air.
2. To become vitiated; to lose purity.
CORRUPT, a. [L.]
1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state, as by natural decomposition.
2. Spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound; as corrupt air, or bread.
3. Depraved; vitiated; tainted with wickedness.
They are corrupt; they have done abominable works. Psa 14.
The earth was corrupt before God. Gen 6.
4. Debased; rendered impure; changed to a worse state; as corrupt language.
5. Not genuine; infected with errors or mistakes. The text is corrupt.