pret. and pp. made.

To compel; to constrain. They should be made to rise at an early hour.

To form of materials; to fashion; to mold into shape; to cause to exist in a different form, or as a distinct thing. He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. Exodus 32:4. God not only made, but created; not only made the work, but the materials.

To create; to cause to exist; to form from nothing. God made the materials of the earth and of all worlds.

To compose; to constitute as parts, materials or ingredients united in a whole. These several sums make the whole amount. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the deity.

To form by art. And art with her contending, doth aspire . T’excel the natural with made delights. WAKE.

To produce or effect, as the agent. Call for Sampson, that he may make us sport. Judges 16:25.

To produce, as the cause; to procure; to obtain. Good tillage is necessary to make good crops. Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19:4.

To do; to perform; to execute; as, to make a journey; to make a long voyage.

To cause to have any quality, as by change or alteration. Wealth may make a man proud; beauty may make a woman vain; a due sense of human weakness should make us humble.

To bring into any state or condition; to constitute. See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh.Exodus 7:1. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Exodus 2:14.

To contract; to establish; as, to make friendship.

To keep; as, to make abode.

To raise to good fortune; to secure in riches or happiness; as when it is said, he is made for this world. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.

To suffer. He accuses Neptune unjustly, who makes shipwreck a second time.

To incur; as, to make a loss.

To commit; to do. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I made.

To intend or to do; to purpose to do. Gomez, what mak’st thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? We now Say, what doest thou here?

To raise, as, profit; to gain; to collect; as, to make money in trade or by husbandry; to make an estate by steady industry.

To discover; to arrive in sight of; a seaman’s phrase, They made the land at nine o’clock on the larboard bow, distant five leagues.