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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tome

Tome (tōm), n. [F. tome (cf. It., Sp., & Pg. tomo), L. tomus, fr. Gr. τόμος a piece cut off, a part of a book, a volume, akin to τέμνειν to cup, and perhaps to L. tondere to shear, E. tonsure. Cf. Anatomy, Atom, Entomology, Epitome. ] As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; — usually applied to a ponderous volume.

Tomes of fable and of dream. Cowper.

A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is not to be found in all the tomes of the casuists. Macaulay.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.