All 18 Uses
grave
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Romeo and Juliet
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- By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets;
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,p. 15.6grave = serious - Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl, For here we need it not.
p. 169.4 *gravity = wisdom (weighty words)
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- If he be married,
My grave is like to be my wedding bed.†p. 61.4 - The Earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave, that is her womb;
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some, and yet all different.†p. 85.1 - Not in a grave
To lay one in, another out to have.†p. 89.7 - Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.†
p. 121.8
- Taking the measure of an unmade grave.†
p. 145.5
- What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?†
p. 161.5
- I would the fool were married to her grave.†
p. 167.1
- Or bid me go into a new-made grave
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud
(Things that to hear them told have made me
tremble),
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstained wife to my sweet love.†p. 183.5 - Everyone prepare
To follow this fair corse unto her grave.†p. 205.2 - Come, cordial and not poison, go with me
To Juliet's grave, for there must I use thee.†p. 217.4 - The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.†p. 221.4 - I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave.†
p. 225.8
- A grave?†
p. 225.8
- What manners is in this,
To press before thy father to a grave?†p. 237.2 - Meantime I writ to Romeo
That he should hither come as this dire night
To help to take her from her borrowed grave,
Being the time the potion's force should cease.†p. 239.2 * - He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave
And bid me stand aloof, and so I did.†p. 241.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) Better known meanings of grave and gravity:Less common meanings of grave:
- grave -- a place where a dead body is buried
- gravity -- in the sense of physics to refer to the force of attraction between all masses in the universe--especially the force that causes things to fall toward the earth
- death -- as in "A message from beyond the grave."
- describing a color as dark
- to sculpt with a chisel
- to clean and coat the bottom of a wooden ship with pitch
- grave accent -- a punctuation mark (`) that is used in some non-English languages, and that is placed over some letters of the alphabet to tell how they are pronounced.
- grave musical direction -- in a slow and solemn manner