cedar

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The breaking of the cedar was a visible outward fragment of a distant and mysterious encounter that was coming daily closer to them both.

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  1. noun Any of several Old World evergreen coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having stiff needles on short shoots and large erect seed cones with broad deciduous scales.
  2. noun Any of several other evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs, such as the Alaska cedar, incense cedar, or red cedar.
  3. noun The durable aromatic wood of any of these plants, especially that of the red cedar, often used to make chests.

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  • The breaking of the cedar was a visible outward fragment of a distant and mysterious encounter that was coming daily closer to them both. —  The Man Whom the Trees Loved
  • They have laughed their enemies in the face, they have triumphed in the flames They were pillars, they were pillars of cedar: the cedar is the highest tree in the world;[6] wherefore in that this house was made of cedar, it may be to denote that in the church in the wilderness, however contemned by men, was the highest perfection of goodness, as of faith, love, prayer, holy conversation, and affection for God and his truth. —  Works of John Bunyan — Complete
  • Sitting on a branch of this cedar is an old woman. —  The Sheep Eaters
  • They were pillars, they were pillars of cedar: the cedar is the highest tree in the world; [6] wherefore in that this house was made of cedar, it may be to denote that in the church in the wilderness, however contemned by men, was the highest perfection of goodness, as of faith, love, prayer, holy conversation, and affection for God and his truth. —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
  • a serpent, and this serpent in turn by a crow; this crow flew, and perched upon a cedar, and this cedar was as broad as sixteen wagons abreast. —  Hebrew Literature
 

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  1. Middle English cedre, from Old French, from Latin cedrus, from Greek kedros.

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  1. Early modern English also ceder, from Middle English ceder, cedre, from Old French cedre, French cèdre = Provencal cedre = Spanish Portuguese Italian cedro = Anglo-Saxon ceder (also in comp. ceder-beám, ceder-treów, cedar-tree) = Dutch ceder = Middle High German cēder, zēder, German ceder, zeder = Swedish Danish ceder = Bohemian cedr = Polish cedr, cedar, from Latin cedrus = Russian kedrŭ, cedar, = Polish keder, kieder, a kind of larch, from Greek κέδρος, a cedar-tree. Theophrastus uses the word both for the Cedrus Libani of Syria and (as also prob. Homer) for the juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus).
 

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