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Cleave   /kliv/   Listen
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Cleave  v. t.  (past clove; past part. cloven or cleaved; pres. part. cleaving)  
1.
To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. "O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain."
2.
To part or open naturally; to divide. "Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws."



Cleave  v. i.  (past clove; past part. cloven or cleaved; pres. part. cleaving)  
1.
To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. "My bones cleave to my skin." "The diseases of Egypt... shall cleave unto thee." "Sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects."
2.
To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife." "Cleave unto the Lord your God."
3.
To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. (Poetic.) "New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use."



Cleave  v. i.  (past clove; past part. cloven or cleaved; pres. part. cleaving)  To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost. "The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst."






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"Cleave" Quotes from Famous Books



... good to study these friendship stories. It will at least show us the humanheartedness of Jesus, and his method in blessing and saving the world. The central fact in every true Christian life is a personal friendship with Jesus. Men were called to follow him, to leave all and cleave to him, to believe on him, to trust him, to love him, to obey him; and the result was the transformation of their lives into his own beauty. That which alone makes one a Christian is being a friend of Jesus. Friendship ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... yore, When a tiny speck in the clouds she saw, Moving and nearing the pleasant land Quietly, swiftly, as by a law. Screening her brown eyes with her hand, She saw it strike the pebbled sand, And heard a glad shout cleave the air, And saw a noble, manly form, With locks of silvered raven hair, And a heart with ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various

... was getting the mastery over me, when all of a sudden he rolled over on to the platform, dragging me with him. Andre Letour- neur had caught hold of one of his legs, and thus saved my life. Jynxstrop dropped his weapon in his fall; I seized it instantly, and was about to cleave the fellow's skull, when I was myself arrested by Andre's hand ...
— The Survivors of the Chancellor • Jules Verne

... of Troy, the beat [Strophe 1. Of oars that shimmered Innumerable, and dancing feet Of Nereids glimmered; And dolphins, drunken with the lyre, Across the dark blue prows, like fire, Did bound and quiver, To cleave the way for Thetis' son, Fleet-in-the-wind Achilles, on To war, to war, till Troy be won ...
— The Electra of Euripides • Euripides

... discipline of suffering to make them better. Ought we not to look and pray for a period to arrive in the history of the church, when men shall no longer need to be lashed and driven, but shall of themselves discern what is best and cleave to it?' ...
— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware


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