Difference between revisions of "Mar"

<p> M`AR, L. marceo. </p> 1. To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective as, to mar a tree by incision. <p> I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks. </p> <p> [[Neither]] shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. [[Leviticus]] 19 </p> 2. To injure to hurt to impair the strength or purity of. <p> When brewers mar their malt with water. </p> 3. To injure to diminish to interrupt. <p> But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. </p> 4. To injure to deform to disfigure. <p> Ire, envy and despair </p> <p> Marr'd all his borrow'd visage. </p> <p> [[His]] visage was so marred more than any man. [[Isaiah]] 52 </p> <p> [[Moral]] evil alone mars the intellectual works of God. </p> <p> This word is not obsolete in America. </p>

<p> ''''' mar ''''' : "To mar" means "to destroy," "to disfigure," "to damage." [[Job]] 30:13 , "They mar my path" (the [[Revised]] [[Version]] margin "they break up"); [[Nahum]] 2:2 , "and destroyed their vine" (the [[King]] [[James]] Version "and marred their vine"); compare [[Leviticus]] 19:27; 2 Kings 3:19; [[Isaiah]] 52:14; [[Jeremiah]] 13:9 . </p>

<p> A district in S. Aberdeenshire, between the [[Don]] and the Dee, has given a title to many earls; one was regent of [[Scotland]] in 1572, another, nicknamed "Bobbing Joan," led the [[Jacobite]] rising of 1715; on the death without issue of the earl in 1866 the question of succession was at issue; the [[Committee]] of Privileges granted it to his cousin, the [[Earl]] of Kellie, thereafter [[Mar]] and Kellie, and a [[Bill]] in [[Parliament]] awarding it to his nephew, who is thus Earl of Mar. </p>