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meaning and epithet
" lord's child "), which originally signified the younger, non-inheriting, offspring of a noble, became, in Confucius ' work, an epithet having much the same meaning and evolution as the English " gentleman ".
This word has often been employed as an epithet in Eastern European legends ( Sabya Damaskinya or Sablja Dimiskija meaning " Damascene saber "), including the Serbian and Bulgarian legends of Prince Marko, a historical figure of the late 14th century in what is currently the Republic of Macedonia.
Scallawag had a special meaning after the Civil War as an epithet for a white Southerner who willingly accepted the reforms by the Republicans.
The meaning of each epithet is:
After his death in 407 ( or, according to some sources, during his life ) he was given the Greek epithet chrysostomos, meaning " golden mouthed " in English, and Anglicized to Chrysostom.
" lord's child "), which originally signified the younger, non-inheriting, offspring of a noble, became, in Confucius ' work, an epithet having much the same meaning and evolution as the English " gentleman ".
His personal name was " Yusuf "; " Salah ad-Din " is a laqab, a descriptive epithet, meaning " Righteousness of the Faith.
The epithet under which Edward I is best known is probably " Longshanks " meaning " long legs " or " long shins " in reference to his tall stature.
The Latin specific epithet impressa ( meaning " impressed " or " indented ") alludes to the indentations on the floral tube.
The name " Ophrys " derives from the Greek word, meaning " eyebrow ", while the Latin specific epithet refers to the bee-shaped lip.
* Aganippis is a name used by Ovid as an epithet of Hippocrene ; its meaning however is not quite clear.
As with the goddess Moneta, Juno Moneta's name is derived either from the Latin monēre, since, as protectress of funds, she " warned " of instability or more likely from the Greek " moneres " meaning " alone, unique ", an epithet that every mother has.
In Irish mythology, Nuada or Nuadu ( modern spelling: Nuadha ), known by the epithet Airgetlám ( modern spelling: Airgeatlámh, meaning " silver hand / arm "), was the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
She was sometimes called " Adrasteia ", probably meaning " one from whom there is no escape "; her epithet Erinys (" implacable ") is specially applied to Demeter and the Phrygian mother goddess, Cybele.
Monthu was an ancient god, his name meaning nomad, originally a manifestation of the scorching effect of the sun, Ra, and as such often appeared under the epithet Monthu-Ra.
In the Marut Suktas ( RV 1, 2, 5, 8 ) and Indra-Suktas ( RV 1, 3, 8, 10 ) of the Rigveda ( RV ), the epithet " Rudras " – originating from the verb root rud or ru and meaning howlers, roarers or shouters – is used numerous times for the Maruts – identifying them with the Rudras even when associated with Indra, rather than Rudra.
* Radhika-This is the most common epithet, meaning she whose worship of the Krishna is all powerful.
As a celebrated scholastic philosopher and doctor of theology, he is often called Doctor Profundus, ( medieval epithet, meaning " the Profound Doctor ").
In the Primary Chronicle, Oleg is known as the Prophet ( вещий ), an epithet alluding to the sacred meaning of his Norse name (" priest "), but also ironically referring to the circumstances of his death.
Capdeville considers Cedrenus ' text to be due to a paleographic error: only Coenulus is indubitably an epithet of Janus and the adjective used to explain it, meaning to present and to treat well at dinner, was used in a ritual invocation before meals, wishing the diners to make good flesh.
Renard connects the epithet's meaning to the cu ( i ) ris, the spear of Juno Curitis as here she is given the epithet of Sororia, corresponding to the usual epithet Geminus of Janus and to the twin or feminine nature of the passage between two coupled posts.
The epithet ' muscifera ' is a Latin word, meaning ' fly bearing '.
The specific epithet canadensis is a New Latin word meaning " from Canada ".

meaning and later
Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.
In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.
According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.
Astrologia later passed into meaning ' star-divination ' with astronomia used for the scientific term.
Dummett's writings on anti-realism also draw heavily on the later writings of Wittgenstein concerning meaning and rule following.
Only later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.
His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.
The river later became, in Welsh, Gafenni, and the town's name became Abergavenny, meaning " mouth of ( Welsh: Aber ) the Gavenny ( Gafenni )".
Oreichalkos, the Ancient Greek translation of this term, was later adapted to the Latin aurichalcum meaning " golden copper " which became the standard term for brass.
Nevertheless, the practice of using the SI-inspired " kilo " to indicate 1024 was later extended to " megabyte " meaning 1024 < sup > 2 </ sup > () bytes, and later " gigabyte " for 1024 < sup > 3 </ sup > () bytes.
The term presbyter was often not yet clearly distinguished from the term overseer ( ἐπίσκοποι episkopoi, later exclusively used as meaning bishop ), as in, Titus 1: 5, 7 and 1 Peter 5: 1.
According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.
The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.
" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.
In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.
Now the most commonly understood meaning of the term ballad, sentimental ballads, sometimes called " tear-jerkers " or " drawing-room ballads " owing to their popularity with the middle classes, had their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry of the later 19th century.
It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).
Christ was originally a title, but later became part of the name " Jesus Christ ", though it is still also used as a title, in the reciprocal use Christ Jesus, meaning " The Messiah Jesus ".
One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.
For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.
The pair later applied the technique to printed media and audio recordings in an effort to decode the material's implicit content, hypothesizing that such a technique could be used to discover the true meaning of a given text.
His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the West electrode ' ( other candidates had been " westode ", " occiode " and " dysiode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.
John Rhys later theorized that the tribal name was derived from the name of a Celtic goddess Domnu, probably meaning " the goddess of the deep ".

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