Stomach
King James Dictionary [1]
Stomach n. L.
1. In animal bodies, a membranous receptacle, the organ of digestion, in which food is prepared for entering into the several parts of the body for its nourishment. 2. Appetite the desire of food caused by hunger as a good stomach for roast beef. A popular use of the word. 3. Inclination liking.
He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart--
4. Anger violence of temper.
Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.
5. Sullenness resentment willful obstinacy stubbornness.
This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
6. Pride haughtiness.
He was a man of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking himself with princes.
Note. This word in all the foregoing senses, except the first, is nearly obsolete or inelegant.
1. To resent to remember with anger.
The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
This sense is not used in America, as far as my observation extends. In America, at least in New England, the sense is,
2. To brook to bear without open resentment or without opposition. Not elegant.
STOMACH, To be angry. Not in use.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
(2): ( n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
(3): ( v. i.) To be angry.
(4): ( n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
(5): ( v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
(6): ( n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
(7): ( v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.
(8): ( n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
properly "a mouth, an opening," akin to stoma, "a mouth," denotes "the stomach" in 1—Timothy 5:23 .
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
STOMACH . This English word occurs in 2Ma 7:21 with the meaning of ‘courage,’ ‘Stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach.’
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
stum´uk ( στόμαχος , stómachos ): In man and most vertebrates, a membranous sac-like portion of the alimentary canal, in which the earlier stages of digestion take place and in which food is prepared to yield its nourishment ( 1 Timothy 5:23 ).
Used figuratively of pride , "A proud look and high stomach" ( Psalm 101:7 , Prayer-book Version), and courage , "Stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach" (2 Macc 7:21 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "with manly passion").
