Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MEM'BER
MEM'BER, n. [Fr. membre; L. membrum.]
- A limb of animal bodies, as a leg, an arm, an ear, a finger, that is, a subordinate part of the main body.
- A part of a discourse, or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse. Harmony in poetry is produced by a proportion between the members of the same verse, or between the members of different verses.
- In architecture, a subordinate part of a building, as a frieze or cornice; sometimes a molding.
- An individual of a community or society. Every citizen is a member of the state or body politic. So the individuals of a club, a corporation or confederacy, are called its members. Students of an academy or college are its members. Professed Christians are called members of the church.
- The appetites and passions, considered as tempting to sin. Rom. vii. Col. iii.
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