Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عِظَةٌ

Root: وعظ

Full Definition

عِظَةٌ : see 1.
2 [As a simple subst.,] it has for its pl. عِظَاتٌ: and is syn. with مَوْعِظَةٌ : [the pl. of the latter is مَوَاعِظُ.] It is said in trad., لَأَجْعَلَنَّكَ عِظَةً I will assuredly make thee a warning, or an example, to others. And in the Kur, [ii. 276,] فَمَنْ جَآءَهُ مَوْعِظَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّهِ [But he to whom cometh an exhortation, or an admonition, or warning, from his Lord]. And [The slaying by way of warning], mentioned in a trad., is when the innocent is slain in order that he who gives reason for suspicion may become warned.


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