Word Meanings - SHALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,

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sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll, imp. sollte, Icel. skulu, pres. skal, imp. skyldi, SW. skola, pres. skall, imp. skulle, Dan. skulle, pres. skal, imp. skulde, Goth. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skulda, and to AS. scyld guilt, G. schuld guilt, fault, debt, and perhaps to L. 1. To owe; to be under obligation for. "By the faith I shall to God" Court of Love. 2. To be obliged; must. "Me athinketh that I shall rehearse it her." Chaucer. 3. As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, "the day shall come when . . . , " since a promise or threat and an authoritative prophecy nearly coincide in significance. In shall with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in meaning to our emphatic "I will go." In a question, the relation of speaker and source of obligation is of course transferred to the person addressed; as, "Shall you go" ; "Shall he go" i. e., "Do you require or promise his going" The same relation is transferred to either second or third person in such phrases as "You say, or think, you shall go;" "He says, or thinks, he shall go." After a conditional conjunction shall is used in all persons to express futurity simply; as, if I, you, or he shall say they are right. Should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he should do it whether he will or not. In the early English, and hence in our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the persons, to express simple futurity. Shall may be used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of motion go may be omitted. "He to England shall along with you." Shak. Note: Shall and will are often confounded by inaccurate speakers and writers. Say: I shall be glad to see you. Shall I do this Shall I help you See Will.

Related words: (words related to SHALL)

• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• OBLIGABLE
  Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• SOLANDER
  See SALLENDERS
• SOLAN GOOSE
  The common gannet.
• SOLAND
  A solan goose.
• OBLIGATORINESS
  The quality or state of being obligatory.
• OBLIGATO
  See OBBLIGATO
• SOLANACEOUS
  Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanaceæ, of which the nightshade is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.
• SOLANUM
  A genus of plants comprehending the potato , the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.
• OBLIGATION
  A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things. Days of obligation. See under Day. (more info) 1. The act of obligating. 2. That
• OBLIGATORILY
  In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation. Foxe.
• SOLANIA
  Solanine.
• OBLIGOR
  The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another. Blackstone.
• SOLANOID
  Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.
• OBLIGEE
  The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given. Blackstone.
• SOLANINE
  A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade , and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.
• OBLIGING
  Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. Addison. Syn. -- Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, --
• SOLANIDINE
  An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.
• DISOBLIGER
  One who disobliges.
• DISOBLIGE
  1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come
• DISOBLIGEMENT
  Release from obligation.
• INTEROSCULANT
  Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant. (more info) 1. Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles.
• OSCULANT
  Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars. (more info) 1. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
• DISOBLIGATORY
  Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.