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   Midst , n. [From middest, in the middest, for older in middes, where -s is adverbial (orig. forming a genitive), or still older a midde, a midden, on midden. See Mid, and cf. Amidst.]
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   The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
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   And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him.
   Luke iv. 35.
   
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   There is nothing . . . in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning.
   Dryden.
   
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   Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.
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   ☞ The expressions in our midst, in their midst, etc., are avoided by some good writers, the forms in the midst of us, in the midst of them, etc., being preferred.
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   Syn. -- Midst, Middle.  Midst in present usage commonly denotes a part or place surrounded on enveloped by or among other parts or objects (see Amidst); while middle is used of the center of length, or surface, or of a solid, etc. We say in the midst of a thicket; in the middle of a line, or the middle of a room; in the midst of darkness; in the middle of the night.
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   Midst, prep. In the midst of; amidst.
   Shak.
   
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   Midst, adv. In the middle. [R.]
   Milton.
   
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