Word Finder - general

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A general fact or proposition; a generality.

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We have dealt with the generals; now let us turn to the particulars.

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The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.

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A great strategist or tactician.

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Hannibal was one of the greatest generals of the ancient world.

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The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.

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A commander of naval forces; an admiral.

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A general servant; a maid with no specific duties.

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A general anesthetic.

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General anesthesia.

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The general insurance industry.

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I work in general.

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To lead (soldiers) as a general.

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Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular.

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(sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.

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Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.

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Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category.

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Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.

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Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area.

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In a general or collective manner or sense; in most cases; upon the whole.

She chose a trail that appeared to head in the general direction she wanted to go and began walking.

Life in general was going down hill for her then.

The general is paging me.

From the third room came sounds of laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and general commotion.

In general, when you have such a salesperson, the information is useful.

Kutuzov was saying to a general who stood beside him, not taking his eye from the battlefield.

As I sounded through the ice I could determine the shape of the bottom with greater accuracy than is possible in surveying harbors which do not freeze over, and I was surprised at its general regularity.

In general, the learned consensus dubbed the whole business with indifference.

General Loring kindly showed me a copy of one of the wonderful bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence, and I felt of the graceful pillars, resting on the backs of fierce lions.

She sat in the general manager's office of the fast food joint where she'd worked for six months.

She twisted in her seat to face General Greene, one of the three people on the compound authorized by the manic commander to be present in the command hub alone.

We dined at a small Mexican restaurant and spent the meal discussing general topics.

General Greene asked from his position at a small planning table in the corner.

The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from chest to back than across the shoulders.

The general looked the captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he approached.

Bagration had sent Zherkov to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately.

Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order.

He gave the question some thought before responding with an illusive and general answer.

He'd served as Damian's executioner for thousands of years, a position he found fitting for his general dislike of the human capacity for evil.

His second-in-command is General Greene, a war hero worth his pay.

I'll probably have to stay with Arnie if the general isn't around.

A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutuzov the day before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutuzov, not considering this junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops arrived from Russia.

The general became silent, angrily pulling down his tight scarf.

In general, we don't have the people we need to permanently fix the East Coast.

General Greene asked, his voice muffled over the communications system.

In 1640 Henderson, Baillie, Blair and Gillespie came to London as commissioners from the General Assembly in Scotland, in response to a request from ministers in London who desired to see the Church of England more closely modelled after the Reformed type.

Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor.

Well, good-by, General, he added, and rode into the yard past Prince Andrew and Denisov.

That sounded general enough, but her strange response set him back a beat.

That was the general idea.

Though higher in rank and larger than most presbyteries it is practically of less importance, not being, like the presbytery, a court of first instance, nor yet, like the general assembly, a court of final appeal.

The synod hears appeals and references from presbyteries; and by its discussions and decisions business of various kinds, if not settled, is ripened for consideration and final settlement by the general assembly, the supreme court of the Church.

The general assembly is representative of the whole Church, either, as in the Irish General Assembly, by a minister and elder sent direct to it from every congregation, or, as in the Scottish General Assemblies, by a proportion of dele- Assembly.

The general assembly annually at its first meeting chooses one of its ministerial members as moderator.

The general assembly reviews all the work of the Church; settles controversies; makes administrative laws; directs and stimulates missionary and other spiritual work; appoints professors of theology; admits to the ministry applicants from other churches; hears and decides complaints, references and appeals which have come up through the inferior courts; and takes cognizance of all matters connected with the Church's interests or with the general welfare of the people.

The general assembly meets once a year at the time and place agreed upon and appointed by its predecessor.

Proceedings of Seventh General Council of the Alliance of Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian System (Washington, 1899).

To share with the minister such general oversight is not regarded by intelligent and influential laymen as an incongruous or unworthy office; but to identify the duties of the eldership, even in theory, with those of the minister is a sure way of deterring from accepting office many whose counsel and influence in the eldership would be invaluable.'

Over all was the general or national synod.

In common with the general Presbyterianism of the British Isles, the Presbyterian Church of England has in recent years been readjusting its relation to the Westminster Confession of Faith.

There were five presbyteries holding monthly meetings and annual visitations of all the congregations within their bounds, and coming together in general synod four times a year.

In 1840 the Synod of Ulster and the Secession Synod united to form the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

In 1864 the two associations or synods of North and South Wales were united in a general assembly.

In 1782 the presbyteries of the Associate and Reformed churches united, forming the Associate and Reformed Synod of North America; but as there were a few dissenters in both bodies the older Associate and Reformed Presbyteries remained as separate units - the Associate Presbytery continued to exist under the same name until 1801, when it became the Associate Synod of North America; in 1818 it ceased to be subordinate to the Scotch General Synod.

In 1801 a "plan of union" proposed by the General Association (Congregational) of Connecticut was accepted by the General Assembly, and the work of home missions in the western section of the country was prosecuted jointly.

The foreign missionary work of the General Assembly had been carried on after 1812 through the (Congregational) American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (organized in 1810) until the separation of 1837, when the Old School Assembly established its own board of foreign missions; the New School continued to work through the American board; after the union of 1869 the separate board was perpetuated and the American board transferred to it, with the contributions made to the American board by the New School churches, the missions in Africa (1833), in Syria (1822), and in Persia (1835).

At the close of the Civil War this Southern Church adopted the name of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Between 1870 and 1881 three presbyteries of the Reformed Presbyterian General Synod (New School) joined the northern General Assembly.

Thus in the end of the 17th century the seed was sown which has at intervals brought forth recurrent crops of evolutional hypotheses, based, more or less completely, on general reasonings.

Buffon (1753-1778), at first a partisan of the absolute immutability of species, subsequently appears to have believed that larger or smaller groups of species have been produced by the modification of a primitive stock; but he contributed nothing to the general doctrine of evolution.