Read full poem →Infelicity in Men possessed of them all, v.267, etc. VII. That Virtue
only constitutes a Happiness, whose object is universal, and whose
prospect eternal, v.307, etc. That the perfection of Virtue and
Dictionary Entry
A thing that can be seen or touched; an item, or a goal or purpose; also a verb meaning to oppose.
In a Sentence
“The scientist placed the object on the table for further examination.”
Origin
From Latin objectum ‘something thrown before’, from ob- ‘against’ + iacere ‘to throw’.
Common Phrases
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “object”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Those tears eternal, that embalm the dead;
Call round her tomb each object of desire,
Each purer frame inform'd with purer fire:
Read full poem →What Plato thought, and godlike Cato was:
No common object to your sight displays,
But what with pleasure Heaven itself surveys, 20
Read full poem →What Plato thought, and godlike Cato was:
No common object to your sight displays,
But what with pleasure Heaven itself surveys,
Read full poem →Say, have they after all,
One other object, end or use
Than that, for girl and boy,
Read full poem →Thence by the Temple of Vesta, away to the great Coliseum,
Which at the full of the moon is an object worthy a visit.
Read full poem →The object of this Work is to collect, in a narro
nass, and at a moderate expense, (he lighter and more en-
Read full poem →That no strange, or unkind
Object arrive there, but the heart, our spy,
Give knowledge instantly
Read full poem →if life should begin with old age, and end with childhood.
The object of the old poet was to mock the prejudices of
his age, while the purpose of the modern author is only to
Read full poem →I watched and waited with a steadfast will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day