3. The following sentences from standard English literature illustrate the use of words still extant and even familiar, in senses now largely or wholly forgotten. The quotations from the Bible and Shakespeare (all the Biblical quotations are from the King James Version) date back a little more than three hundred years, those from Milton a little less than three hundred years, and those from Gray and Coleridge, respectively, about a hundred and seventy-five and a hundred and twenty-five years. Go carefully enough into the past meanings of the italicized words to make sure you grasp the author's thought.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.(1 Corinthians 13:13)
I prevented the dawning of the morning. (Psalms 119:147)
Our eyes wait upon the Lord our God. (Psalms 123:2)
The times of this ignorance God winked at. (Acts 17:30)
And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me; for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. (Luke 8:46)
To judge the quick and the dead. (1 Peter 4:5)
Be not wise in your own conceits. (Romans 12:16)
In maiden meditation, fancy-free. (Shakespeare: A Midsummer
Night's Dream)
Is it so nominated in the bond? (Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice)