Slur
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. t.) To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

2. (v. t.) To disparage; to traduce.

3. (v. t.) To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.

4. (v. t.) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.

5. (v. t.) To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

6. (v. t.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.

7. (v. t.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

8. (n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.

9. (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.

10. (n.) A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.

11. (n.) In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

Greek
3685. oninemi -- to profit, help
... A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (onomai, to slur); for which another
prolonged form (onao) is used as an alternate in some tenses (unless indeed ...
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In the Next Place, Throwing a Slur Upon the Exhortations Spoken ...
... Chapter LXII. In the next place, throwing a slur upon the exhortations
spoken and written to those� In the next place, throwing ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lxii in the next.htm

The Condemnation of "The Three Chapters. "
... The orthodox wanted no slur cast upon Chalcedon, and, however fenced, the
condemnation of the Three Chapters indubitably involved such a slur. ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/vii the condemnation of the three.htm

The Next Performance is Mainly Directed against Faith in the ...
... his successive vagaries of religious (?) thought, we come upon a succession of strange
statements; the object of which seems to be to cast a slur on Doctrine ...
/.../burgon/inspiration and interpretation/iv the next performance is.htm

Letter viii. Who are the Cultivated?
... These are the terms that intimidate the vain, selfish, illiterate rich; for to be
described as "rich but uncultivated" is regarded as a greater slur upon the ...
/.../letter viii who are the.htm

The Sinner's Friend
... mortals! Their scandal published his reputation. To this day the Savior
is adored by the title which was minted as a slur. It was ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/the sinners friend.htm

Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional.
... their genuineness, and an opposing opinion which he evidently considers the better
of the two, since he rests upon the latter and casts a slur upon the former ...
/.../chapter x causes of corruption.htm

Yorkshire and the Settlement System.
... "I cannot but observe," he wrote to his friend Jacob Rogers, curate at St. Paul's,
Bedford, "what a slur you cast upon the Moravians about stillness. ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter x yorkshire and the.htm

Sleep Not
... "Lord, when we leave the world and come to thee,. How dull, how slur, are we! How
backward! How prepost'rous is the motion. Of our ungain devotion! ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/sleep not.htm

The Coin in the Fish's Mouth
... Peter's quick answer seems to be prompted by zeal for his Master's honour,
on which the question appears to him to cast a slur. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/the coin in the fishs.htm

Mingled in Growth, Separated in Maturity
... that it means 'the world.' Whatever view we take of the bearing of this parable
on purity of communion in the visible Church, we should not slur over Christ's ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/mingled in growth separated in.htm

Thesaurus
Slur (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (vt) To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. 5. (vt) To pronounce indistinctly;
as, to slur syllables. ... Multi-Version Concordance Slur (1 Occurrence). ...
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Unknown (15 Occurrences)
... That a slur on all the other Athenian objects of worship was intended is, however,
most improbable, but Paul could not of course be expected to know the ...
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Tie (18 Occurrences)
... restrain; to confine. 12. (vt) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a
curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them. 13. (vt) To ...
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Remaliah (13 Occurrences)
... 7:4; 8:6). The contemptuous allusion to Pekah as "the son of Remaliah" in Isaiah
7:4 (similarly "the son of Kish," 1 Samuel 10:11) may be a slur on Remaliah's ...
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Slung (2 Occurrences)

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Slurs (1 Occurrence)

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Flame (61 Occurrences)
... That a slur on all the other Athenian objects of worship was intended is, however,
most improbable, but Paul could not of course be expected to know the ...
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Bible Concordance
Slur (1 Occurrence)

Psalms 15:3 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
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