the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Detail
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
(2):
(n.) A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
(3):
(n.) To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
(4):
(n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.
(5):
(n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
(6):
(n.) A detail drawing.
(7):
(n.) A minor part, as, in a building, the cornice, caps of the buttresses, capitals of the columns, etc., or (called larger details) a porch, a gable with its windows, a pavilion, or an attached tower.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Detail'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/detail.html. 1828.
