Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DI-RECT'O-RY
DI-RECT'O-RY, n.
- A guide; a rule to direct; particularly, a book containing directions for public worship, or religious services. The Bible is our best directory, in faith and practice.
- A book containing an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of a city, with their places of abode.
- The supreme council of France, in the late revolution.
- A board of directors.
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