SAVED

protected, saved

(adjective) guarded from injury or destruction

saved

(adjective) rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin; “a saved soul”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

saved

simple past tense and past participle of save

Adjective

saved (not comparable)

(Christianity) Rescued from the consequences of sin.

retained for future use rather than spent e.g. ː"A penny saved is a penny earned."

Anagrams

• Vedas, devas, vades

Source: Wiktionary


SAVE

Save, n. Etym: [See Sage the herb.]

Definition: The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Save, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saved; p. pr. & vb. n. Saving.] Etym: [OE. saven, sauven, salven, OF. salver, sauver, F. sauver, L. salvare, fr. salvus saved, safe. See Safe, a.]

1. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. God save all this fair company. Chaucer. He cried, saying, Lord, save me. Matt. xiv. 30. Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss. Milton.

2. (Theol.)

Definition: Specifically, to deliver from and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. 1 Tim. i. 15.

3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. Now save a nation, and now save a groat. Pope.

4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done. Shak.

5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. Will you not speak to save a lady's blush Dryden.

6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. Swift. To save appearance, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.

Syn.

– To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.

Save, v. i.

Definition: To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. Bacon.

Save, prep. or conj. Etym: [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See Safe, a.]

Definition: Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24.

Syn.

– See Except.

Save, conj.

Definition: Except; unless.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.

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