Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Full (-er, -est)
full (-er, -est), adj. [OE.]
- Occupied; not vacant.
- High; eminent; elevating; uplifting; exultant; [fig.] showy; glorious; magnificent; artistically rich; aesthetically overpowering; [word play on “full house”] crowded; having a large audience; with many people in attendance.
- Completely done; entire in time; not partially accomplished.
- Right; appointed; anticipated; mature; completely blessed; absolutely appropriate; entirely fitting; just as it should be.
- Phrase. “God's full time”: God's promised era; the due time of the Lord; [fig.] paradise; the millennium; the resurrection from the dead; the restoration of all things; era of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ; (see Ephesians 1:10 “the dispensation of the fulness of time”).
- Phrase. “at full”: disk-like in appearance; in its greatest circumference; shaped like a complete circle; appearing with its whole perimeter; viewable in all directions of its diameters; at the monthly stage of most visibility from a vantage point on Earth.
- Phrase. “full fed”: satiated; well-fed; completely blooming; prime for the picking; [fig.] well cared for; nourished with sun, water, mineral, and so forth.
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