Definition of Weaker vessel. Meaning of Weaker vessel. Synonyms of Weaker vessel

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Weaker vessel. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Weaker vessel and, of course, Weaker vessel synonyms and on the right images related to the word Weaker vessel.

Definition of Weaker vessel

Weaker vessel
Vessel Ves"sel, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, Vase.] 1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc. [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer. 2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel. [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton. 3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy. He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15. [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter. --Milton. 4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. 5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[ae]), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct. Acoustic vessels. See under Acoustic. Weaker vessel, a woman; -- now applied humorously. ``Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.' --1 Peter iii. 7. ``You are the weaker vessel.' --Shak.

Meaning of Weaker vessel from wikipedia

- of Men (1973). Fraser won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women's lives in 17th-century England. From 1988 to 1989...
- British author Antonia Fraser devotes part of a chapter of her The Weaker Vessel (1984) to a modern summary of Frances' life. A new biography by American...
- Keynes: Bibliolife, ISBN 9781117402697 Fraser, Antonia (2002), The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, part Two, London: Phoenix...
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel. New York : Knopf, 1984; ISBN 1-84212-635-0 Haynes, Alan. **** in Elizabethan...
- men". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2024. Antonia Frazer, The Weaker Vessel, Mandarin paperbacks, 1989, pp. 108–109 for example, see David Murray...
- Review. R. Griffiths. 1794. pp. 202. Antonia Fraser (16 June 2011). The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. Orion. p. 309. ISBN 978-1-78022-066-6...
- wrote his Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. A Sunny Place (Hinata, 1923) The Weaker Vessel (Yowaki utsuwa, 1924) The Girl Who Approached the Fire (Hi ni yuku kanojo...
- A pressure vessel is a container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure. Construction methods...
- Diana de Vere". thepeerage.com. Fraser, Antonia (16 June 2011). The Weaker Vessel. Orion. ISBN 978-1-78022-066-6. Masters, Brian (8 February 2011). The...
- an education in an environment or culture that viewed woman as the weaker vessel, subordinated to man and uneducable. She is most famously known for...