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Umpire
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UM'PIRE, n. L. imperium, contracted, as in empire.
1. A third person called in to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators, when the arbitrators do not agree in opinion.
2. A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred. Thus the emperor of Russia was constituted umpire between Great Britain and the United States, to decide the controversy respecting the slaves carried from the states by the British troops.
UM'PIRE, To arbitrate to decide as umpire to settle, as a dispute. Little used.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Umpire'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/u/umpire.html.
Entry for 'Umpire'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/u/umpire.html.
