Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
adv.) Side by side; also, up to date; as, keeping abreast of current events.
2. (adv.) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of.
3. (adv.) Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.
4. (adv.) At the same time; simultaneously.
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To the Saddest of the Sad
... on the stream of time, altering every week in the year; and they must have an endless
task to catch this new idea, or, as they put it, to keep abreast of the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 34 1888/to the saddest of the.htm
Among the Orderlies at the Castle was one David...
... That morning as they left the old city, Vergilius and the young Jew rode abreast.
"Tell me," said the former, presently, "what know you of the new king?". ...
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The Kingdom Op Judah.
... saved him from sharing the fate of the other kings whom Shishak conquered and dragged
back to Egypt, where he yoked them to his chariot, four abreast, and made ...
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Synod of Maryland and virginia.
... It has always been abreast of the most advanced, evangelical, and catholic life
of the Church, giving no uncertain sound upon the divine obligation of the ...
/.../bente/american lutheranism/synod of maryland and virginia.htm
Through the Red Sea
... A long line of old men, two abreast, the wind making the picture awesome as
it tossed their beards and gray robes, followed the Lawgiver. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xlv through the red.htm
The Gradual Healing of the Blind Man
... the man that He would heal; Christ stooping to the sense-bound nature by using outward
means; and Christ making His power work slowly, to keep abreast of the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/the gradual healing of the.htm
Preface to Third Revision
... PREFACE TO THIRD REVISION. """" The continued demand for my Church History lays
upon me the grateful duty of keeping it abreast of the times. ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/preface to third revision.htm
Luther --A Stone on the Cairn
... He was no mere brave revolutionary, he was a cultured scholar, abreast of all the
learning of his age, capable of logic-chopping and scholastic disputation on ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/luthera stone on the cairn.htm
Ittai of Gath
... If Shimei runs along the hillside abreast of him, shrieking curses as he goes,
all he says is: 'Let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.'. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/ittai of gath.htm
The virgin's Lamp.
... discouragement of many legitimate forms of occupation as well as of recreation,
which it stigmatized as worldly, incapacitated it from keeping abreast of the ...
/.../winkworth/christian singers of germany/the virgins lamp.htm
Thesaurus
Abreast (1 Occurrence)... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (adv.) Side by side; also, up to date; as, keeping
abreast of current events.
... Multi-Version Concordance
Abreast (1 Occurrence).
.../a/abreast.htm - 7kFile (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to
rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting ...
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Abram's (8 Occurrences)
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Abrech (1 Occurrence)
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Line (131 Occurrences)
... railroad. 30. (n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side
by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column. 31. ...
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Rank (42 Occurrences)
... (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction;
eminence; as, a man of rank. 14. (vt) To place abreast, or in a line. 15. ...
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Against (17413 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (prep.) Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as,
against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. ...
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Sela (5 Occurrences)
... The interior is reached by defiles so narrow that two horsemen may scarcely ride
abreast, and the sun is shut out by the overhanging rocks..... ...
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Agriculture
... begins. In some localities several animals, commonly oxen or donkeys,
are tied abreast and driven round and round the floor. In ...
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Bible Concordance
Abreast (1 Occurrence)Acts 27:7 And sailing slowly for many days, and having with difficulty got abreast of Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under the lee of Crete abreast of Salmone;
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