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midst |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Midst \Midst\, prep. In the midst of amidst. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Midst \Midst\, adv In the middle. [R.] --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Midst \Midst\, n. [From middest, in the middest, for older in middes, where -s is adverbial (orig. forming a genitive), or still older a midde, a midden, on midden. See {Mid}, and cf {Amidst}.] 1. The interior or central part or place the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in as in the midst of the forest. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him --Luke iv 35. There is nothing . . . in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning. --Dryden. 2. Hence figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs. Note: The expressions in our midst, in their midst, etc., are avoided by some good writers, the forms in the midst of us in the midst of them etc., being preferred. Syn: {Midst}, {Middle}. Usage: Midst in present usage commonly denotes a part or place surrounded on enveloped by or among other parts or objects (see {Amidst}); while middle is used of the center of length, or surface, or of a solid, etc We say in the midst of a thicket; in the middle of a line or the middle of a room in the midst of darkness; in the middle of the night. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: midst n : the location of something surrounded by other things "in the midst of the crowd" [syn: {thick}]
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