the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Major
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
(2):
(a.) Of greater dignity; more important.
(3):
(a.) Of full legal age.
(4):
(a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
(5):
(a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.
(6):
(a.) A person of full age.
(7):
(a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].
(8):
(a.) A mayor.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Major'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/major.html. 1828.
