Thou art much mightier than we. --Gen. xxvi.
16.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much less do
lying lips a prince. --Prov. xvii.
7.
Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong Life
much. --Milton.
All left the world much as they found it. --Sir W.
Temple.
He that gathered much had nothing over. --Ex. xvi.
18.
Note: Muchin this sense can be regarded as an adjective
qualifying a word unexpressed, and may, therefore, be
modified by as, so, too, very.
2. A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something
considerable.
And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies.
--Milton.
{To make much of}, to treat as something of especial value or
worth.
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and
shalt gather but little in. --Deut.
xxviii. 38.
Edom came out against him with much people. --Num.
xx. 20.
3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer.