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Context   /kˈɑntɛkst/   Listen
noun
Context  n.  The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning. "According to all the light that the contexts afford."



verb
Context  v. t.  To knit or bind together; to unite closely. (Obs.) "The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts."



adjective
Context  adj.  Knit or woven together; close; firm. (Obs.) "The coats, without, are context and callous."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Context" Quotes from Famous Books



... verse 3., to the words "Thou shall abide for me many days," Dr. Pocock thus explains the context: ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 • Various

... Art, its Constitution and Capacities, etc. By the Rev. Edward Young, M.A. The phrase "exceedingly young men of stubborn instincts," being twice quoted (carefully excluding the context) from ...
— Lectures on Architecture and Painting - Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 • John Ruskin

... fact that several of our cases started lying from the time when there occurred some experience accompanied by a deep emotional context, and that this experience and the emotion was repressed, seems to point clearly to the part which repressed mental life may play in the genesis. That as children they kept to themselves secrets of grave import ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy

... says[131], "The Dean's following Instruction to his Friend is certainly very diverting, in these words, where the Animadverter charges the Dean with Absurdities and Contradictions; turn to the Place and read it with its Context, and tell me what you cannot answer, and I will; to which he would have done well to have added, If I can. But the whole Passage is just as if he had said, Sir, if you find not Contradictions and Absurdities enough in my Book to satisfy ...
— A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) • Anthony Collins

... still further lot offers: 40,000 "Women's Regulator Letters,"—letters which in their context any woman can naturally imagine would be of the most delicate nature. Still, the fact remains, here they are ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague


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