Shipwreck
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Shipwreck - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
SHIP'WRECK, n. [ship and wreck.]
1. The destruction of a ship or vessel by being cast ashore or broken to pieces by beating against rocks and the like.
2. The parts of a shattered ship.
3. Destruction.
To make a shipwreck concerning faith, is to apostatize from the love, profession and dpractice of divine truth which had been embraced.
SHIP'WRECK, v.t.
1. To destroy by running ashore or on ricks or sand banks. How many vessels are annually shipwrecked on the Bahama rocks!
2. To suffer the perils of being cast away; to be cast ashore with the loss of the ship. The shipwrecked mariners were saved.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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