About The Word His
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What's The Definition Of His?Synonyms | Synonyms for His: Related Terms | Find terms related to His: See Also | His In Webster's Dictionary \His\, pron. [AS. his of him, his, gen. masc. & neut. of h?,
neut. hit. See {He}.]
1. Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal
adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers
are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now
obsolete.
No comfortable star did lend his light. --Shak.
Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his
earth-bound root? --Shak.
Note: Also formerly used in connection with a noun simply as
a sign of the possessive. ``The king his son.'' --Shak.
``By young Telemachus his blooming years.'' --Pope.
This his is probably a corruption of the old possessive
ending -is or -es, which, being written as a separate
word, was at length confounded with the pronoun his.
2. The possessive of he; as, the book is his. ``The sea is
his, and he made it.'' --Ps. xcv. 5.
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