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adjective

Manifest adj.

1.

Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden. "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight." "That which may be known of God is manifest in them." "Thus manifest to sight the god appeared."

2.

Detected; convicted; with of. (R.) "Calistho there stood manifest of shame."

Synonyms: Open; clear; apparent; evident; visible; conspicuous; plain; obvious. Manifest, Clear, Plain, Obvious, Evident. What is clear can be seen readily; what is obvious lies directly in our way, and necessarily arrests our attention; what is evident is seen so clearly as to remove doubt; what is manifest is very distinctly evident. "So clear, so shining, and so evident, That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye." "Entertained with solitude, Where obvious duty erewhile appeared unsought." "I saw, I saw him manifest in view, His voice, his figure, and his gesture knew."

verb

Manifest v. t. (past & past part. manifested; pres. part. manifesting)

1.

To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit. "There is nothing hid which shall not be manifested." "Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not."

2.

To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

Synonyms: To reveal; declare; evince; make known; disclose; discover; display.

noun

Manifest n. (pl. manifests)

1.

A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto. (Obs.)

2.

A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse; as, to inspect the ship's manifest.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manifest" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the heart of Jesus so narrowed in their practical application? The answer is very simple. Jesus was the revealing of God—God manifest in the flesh. He had come into this world not merely to heal a few sick people, to bring back joy to a few darkened homes by the restoring of their dead, to formulate a system of moral and ethical teachings, to start a wave of kindliness and a ministry of mercy and love; ...

— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... seemed to see Mr. Plimpton with new eyes. Not that he stood revealed a villain, which he was far from being; it was the air of sophistication, of good-natured if cynical acceptance of things as they were—and plenty good enough, too!—that jarred upon the rector in his new mood, and it was made manifest to him as never before why his appeals from the pulpit had lacked efficacy. Mr. Plimpton didn't want the world changed! And in this desire he represented the men in that room, and the majority of the congregation of St. John's. The rector had felt something of this before, and it seemed to him astonishing ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... being cut off by the Athenian occupation of Potidaea and of their own practically insular position, they had of their own free will gone forward to meet their liberty instead of timorously waiting until they had been by force compelled to their own manifest good. This was a sign that they would valiantly undergo any trial, however great; and if he should order affairs as he intended, he should count them among the truest and sincerest friends of the Lacedaemonians, and would in every other ...

— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides

... mystery soon was manifest, And thus the king his child addrest, Whilst anger darkened o'er his brow:— "What hast thou done, ungrateful, now? Why hast thou flung, in evil day, The veil of modesty away? That cheek the bloom of spring displayed, Now all is withered, all decayed; ...

— Persian Literature, Volume 1,Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous

... consultation was had, on the course of procedure. Nothing was, apparently, disturbed. No sign of human presence was manifest. The door which opened to the main room, facing the west, was closed, as well as ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay

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