Bible Dictionary: Retort

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A return to an argument or a charge; a harsh reply.n.) To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.

2. (n.) To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.

3. (n.) To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.

4. (n.) The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

5. (n.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.

Library

A Retort of Heresy Answered that Scripture Should in So Many Words ...
... Chapter XXI."A Retort of Heresy Answered That Scripture Should in So Many Words
Tell Us that the World Was Made of Nothing is Superfluous. ...
/.../tertullian/against hermogenes/chapter xxi a retort of heresy.htm

The Charge of Worshipping the Sun Met by a Retort.
... Book I. Chapter XIII. "The Charge of Worshipping the Sun Met by a Retort.
Others, with greater regard to good manners, it must ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/ad nationes/chapter xiii name charge of.htm

Elucidation. Stated in Obscure Terms, with Advantage...
... [4073] I am sorry that Tillotson exposed himself to a witty retort by the same author,
in these words ... If the retort is based on the sermon (xxxv. vol. iii. ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/elucidation stated in obscure terms.htm

Our Lord-Sanctifying Himself
... sin. The blind man's retort upon the Pharisees is his retort upon us to
this day,""Now we know that God heareth not sinners." No! ...
/.../whyte/lord teach us to pray/x our lord-sanctifying himself.htm

Crumbs and the Bread
... But it is also to be considered in the light of the woman's quick-witted retort,
which drew out of it an inference which we cannot suppose that Christ did not ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/crumbs and the bread.htm

Early Christianity in Other Parts of These Islands. --Ninian in ...
... The expulsion of the Britons from the land of their fathers was too recent for that;
the retort of the Saxons too apposite, that at least their gods had shewn ...
/.../lecture iii early christianity in.htm

What Good Does it do Me that He Declares on his Oath that it was ...
... Then and not till then will I either acknowledge the justice of his charges, or
refute them, or retort upon the accuser the accusations he has made: and will ...
/.../2 what good does it.htm

"But Why," You Ask, "Did You Accept My Manuscripts which had Been ...
... I wished to refer to many persons a charge which you alone had brought, not so as
to retort the charge of heresy upon you, but to repel it from myself. ...
/.../34 but why you ask.htm

Against Hermogenes
... Chapter XXI.--A Retort of Heresy Answered That Scripture Should in So Many Words
Tell Us that the World Was Made of Nothing is Superfluous. ...
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Ad Nationes
... Chapter XIII. --The Charge of Worshipping the Sun Met by a Retort. Chapter XIV.
--The Vile Calumny About Onocoetes Retorted on the Heathen by Tertullian. ...
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Thesaurus

Retort (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort
the charge of vanity. ... Multi-Version Concordance Retort (1 Occurrence). ...
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Neck (97 Occurrences)
... the neck of an animal. 3. (n.) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort,
or of a fruit, as a gourd. 4. (n.) A long narrow tract ...
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Lash (2 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives
pain; a cut. 5. (n.) A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash. ...
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Idleness (4 Occurrences)
... According to the Yahwistic narrative Pharaoh's retort to the complaints of
the Israelites was a charge of indolence (Exodus 5:8, 17). ...
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Idle (33 Occurrences)
... According to the Yahwistic narrative Pharaoh's retort to the complaints of
the Israelites was a charge of indolence (Exodus 5:8, 17). ...
/i/idle.htm - 18k

Floor (69 Occurrences)
... 11. (vt) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence
by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. 12. ...
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Retorted (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Retort. Multi-Version Concordance
Retorted (2 Occurrences). Matthew 15:3 "Why do you, too ...
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Receiver (1 Occurrence)
... stolen. 4. (n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like,
for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. 5 ...
/r/receiver.htm - 8k

Retiring (1 Occurrence)

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Return (499 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks. 10.
(vt) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. 11. ...
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Bible Concordance

Retort (1 Occurrence)

Acts 7:29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Retort

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Neck (97 Occurrences)

Lash (2 Occurrences)

Idleness (4 Occurrences)

Idle (33 Occurrences)

Floor (69 Occurrences)

Retorted (2 Occurrences)