Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
2. (n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
3. (v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
4. (v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
5. (v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Library
Letter cxliv. From Augustine to Optatus.
... Again when you say that "you as a new-fledged and inexperienced teacher have been
afraid to tamper with the doctrines handed down by great and famous bishops ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxliv from augustine to.htm
Letter iii. Having in the Former Two Letters Defined the Doctrine ...
... "The present Bible is the Canon to which Christ and the Apostles referred?". Doubtless.
"And in terms which a Christian must tremble to tamper with?". Yea. ...
/.../coleridge/confessions of an inquiring spirit etc/letter iii having in the.htm
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional.
... further identify both places with Matthew 28:2, 3 [173] , from which they are clearly
separate;"but they considered themselves at liberty to tamper with the ...
/.../chapter vii causes of corruption.htm
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional.
... These persons, like certain of the moderns, Beza for example, evidently did
not think it at all wrong to tamper with the inspired Text. ...
/.../chapter xiv causes of corruption.htm
Against "The Roaring Lions"
... Not only did they tamper with Augustin's people, but the country dwellers of the
Catholic Church were continually interfered with on their lands, pillaged ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/iv against the roaring lions.htm
The Example Set us by the Martyrs, whom no Force could Hinder from ...
... compelled by force to unseal afterwards resealed, condemning the fraud which had
been practised upon them; while they who had not ventured to tamper with it ...
/.../vincent/the commonitory of vincent of lerins/chapter v the example set.htm
Introductory Remarks. 1 the Term Hermeneutics (Greek...
... life; and to remember always that, if such be the divine origin and high office
of scriptural truth, God will not hold guiltless any who tamper with it in the ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxiii introductory remarks 1.htm
Hiring a Coachman
... Take this as your motto when you are inclined to tamper with wrong: "Who eats with
the devil needs a long-handled spoon." The farther you keep away from him ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/hiring a coachman.htm
The Opinions of Carpocrates, Another Offset from the Pythagorean ...
... To this effect does he tamper with the whole of that allegory of the Lord which
is extremely clear and simple in its meaning, and ought to be from the first ...
/.../tertullian/a treatise on the soul/chapter xxxv the opinions of carpocrates.htm
Ahab and Elijah
... and being lost! If you know that a thing cannot be won without transgression,
do not tamper with hankerings for it. Keep away from ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/ahab and elijah.htm
Thesaurus
Tamper (1 Occurrence)... 3. (vi) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to
tamper with
a disease.
... Multi-Version Concordance
Tamper (1 Occurrence).
.../t/tamper.htm - 7kTammuz (1 Occurrence)
/t/tammuz.htm - 10k
Tanach (4 Occurrences)
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Doctor (5 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to
adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. ...
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Cook (17 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; --
often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. ...
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Bible Concordance
Tamper (1 Occurrence)2 Corinthians 4:2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. Paul's Letter to the Galatians
(See RSV)
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Tanach (4 Occurrences)
Doctor (5 Occurrences)
Cook (17 Occurrences)
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