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fellowship | false |

As a noun fellowship

is a company of people that share the same interest or aim.

As a verb fellowship

is to admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship.

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

fellowship

English

(fellow)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
  • A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.
  • A merit-based scholarship.
  • A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research; this may also be called a postdoc.
  • (medicine) A period of supervised, sub-specialty medical training in the United States and Canada that a physician may undertake after completing a specialty training program or residency.
  • (Christianity) Spiritual communion with a divine being.
  • The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13:14, ESV))

    Verb

  • To admit to fellowship, enter into fellowship with; to make feel welcome by showing friendship or building a cordial relationship.
  • ''The Bishop's family fellowshipped the new converts.
    The Society of Religious Snobs refused to fellowship the poor, immigrant family.
  • * Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (editor), The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum'', first edition (1879), anthology, published for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., translation of ''(Gesta Romanorum) by anon., xxxiv. 135, (Harl. MS. c.1440), page 135:
  • Then pes seynge hir sistris alle in acorde...she turnid ayene; For whenne contencions & styf wer' cessid, then pes was felashipid among hem.
  • *:: Then Peace saw her sisters all in accord...she turned again; for when contentions and strife were ceased, then Peace was fellowshipped among them.
  • To join in fellowship; to associate with.
  • The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups.
    After she got married, she stopped fellowshipping with the singles in our church.
  • * (Hans Kurath) quoting (Nicholas Love) (translator), (The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ)'', fifth edition (1989), quoted in ''Middle English Dictionary'', translation of ''Meditationes Vitae Christi by (Pseudo-Bonaventura), (Gibbs MS. c.1400), page 463:
  • Oure lorde Jesu came in manere of a pilgrym and felauschipped' [Aldh ' felischippede ] with hem.
  • *:: Our lord Jesus came in the manner of a pilgrim and fellowshipped with them.
  • false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society , section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
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  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:whose false foundation waves have swept away
  • Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (lb) Out of tune.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

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