Midst

Definition of Midst

n.	1.
	1.	The interior or central part or place; the middle; - used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him. - Luke iv. 35. There is nothing . . . in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning. - Dryden.
	2.	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.
prep.	1.	In the midst of; amidst.
adv.	1.	In the middle.

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