Word Finder - matters

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Substance, material.

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A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.

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What's the matter?;   state matters

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An approximate amount or extent.

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I stayed for a matter of months.

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The essence; the pith; the embodiment.

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Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.

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Pus.

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To be important.

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Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.

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(in negative constructions) To care about, to mind; to find important.

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To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

But he felt that this did not forward matters at all.

Before she could be irritated by his words, he continued, "We will discuss matters later."

I have matters to attend to.

It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men.

When it happens, it matters little which was the cause.

The judicial powers of the county court are confined to probate, the appointment of executors, administrators and other personal representatives, and the settlement of their accounts, matters relating to apprentices and to contested elections for county and district officers.

The book will contain four essays, all in French, with the general title of Project of a Universal science, capable of raising our nature to its highest perfection; also Dioptrics, Meteors and Geometry, wherein the most curious matters which the author could select as a proof of the universal science which he proposes are explained in such a way that even the unlearned may understand them.'

A number of officers of the army and navy agreed to lend assistance to a revolutionary outbreak, and towards the end of July 1893 matters came to a head.

But I contend that only matters of degree separate it from the weightier matters we conventionally associate with wisdom.

How could they--they can see and hear, and I suppose they could not understand matters from my point of view....

It matters little comparatively whether the fields fill the farmer's barns.

On such matters I am only severe with myself.

But then you were so convinced the bones belonged to that man Josh that I decided to let matters play out.

To complicate matters, he had no idea what shape the underworld was in, if the reports Landon received were correct.

At least you freed the one that matters.

Well then, imagine why I would want to know – and then pretend like it matters.

All right Carmen, let's pretend like it matters.

We have taken the land advantage, which is all that matters.

He has a lot of experience in these matters.

It plagues my mind that my sins will continue but so in love am I that aught else matters.

But when she returned and he saw her concerned look, his mind went to real-time matters.

Of course it matters.

It's better if I have something to take my mind off—other matters.

But his mind was soon engaged in earthier matters.

With no firm plan of action emerging with the morning sun, Dean scooted out of the house early, not yet ready to discuss matters with Fred O'Connor.

His mind was less on Ethel Rosewater than other matters.

If she wanted him to come in, she didn't suggest it and he wasn't about to rush matters.

Then, to make matters worse, I doubted him.

Well, as long as you and I are happy with it, I guess that's all that matters.

I have only just learned there is more than my selfish anger that matters.

This last was the belief of the Protestant Reformers, for whom the Bible was in matters of doctrine the ultimate court of appeal.

The existence of such mixed matters gives rise to inevitable conflicts of jurisdiction, which may lead, and sometimes have led, to civil war.

Again, it is quite certain that the spiritual matters upon which concordats bear do not concern the two powers in the same manner and in the same degree; and in this sense concordats are not perfectly equal agreements.

To the situation defined by concordat, however, succeeds another situation, more or less uncertain and more or less strained, in which the two powers legislate separately on mixed matters, sometimes not without provoking conflicts.

They bear upon very varied matters,' and we must confine ourselves here to a brief résumé.

Margaret, quarrelling with her husband over money matters, sided at first with Arran and began to agitate for a divorce from Angus.

But his undue haste to arrange matters with the church only served to compromise him more deeply.

During these years he began to study literary matters and philology, instigated, it is asserted, by criticisms on his style.

The sheriff "was the king's representative in all matters judicial, military and financial in the shire.

These bodies have separated solely on matters of Church government and not on points of doctrine.

The kirk-session has oversight of the congregation in regard to such matters as the hours of public worship, the arrangements for administration of the sacraments, the admission of new Members and the exercise of church discipline.

Matters about which there is any doubt or difficulty, or division of opinion in the session, may be carried for settlement to the next higher court, the presbytery.

The general assembly reviews all the work of the Church; settles controversies; makes administrative laws; directs and stimulates missionary and other spiritual work; appoints professors of theology; admits to the ministry applicants from other churches; hears and decides complaints, references and appeals which have come up through the inferior courts; and takes cognizance of all matters connected with the Church's interests or with the general welfare of the people.

The Swiss, owing to their peculiar geographical position and to certain political circumstances, early manifested independence in ecclesiastical matters, and became accustomed to the Statistics.

The remarkable feature of French church polity was its aristocratic nature, which it owed to the system of co-optation; and the exclusion of the congregation from direct and frequent interference in spiritual matters prevented many evils which result from too much intermeddling on the part of the laity.

It was a council created by parliament to give advice in church matters at a great crisis in the nation's history; but its acts, though from the high character and great learning of its members worthy of deepest respect, did not per se bind parliament or indeed anyone.

It was deemed best, however, to cease litigation and to leave matters as they were.

Charles opened a small business as an apothecary in Dublin, and between 1735 and 1741 he began his career as a pamphleteer by publishing papers on professional matters which led to legislation requiring inspection of drugs.

Each has its own judicial system, and enacts laws relating to the administration of justice, the distribution and imposition of taxes, and all matters affecting the province.

During the last months of President Uriburu's administration, matters had reached a climax, especially in connexion with the delimitation in a district known as the Puna de Atacama.