Thus, one can think of a dictionary entry as a word rather than a form.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

Thus, the word means taking hold of one's nerves.

Thus understood, the centuries-old English word Χmas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas.

Thus far, the origins of the word remain inconclusive, as the term is not used outside Mexican-American communities, further indicating that the term is primarily self-identifying.

Thus, as church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. explained, the church believes the Bible to be the word of God " as far as it is translated correctly.

Thus the word retains two senses today, one architectural and the other ecclesiastical.

Thus, though knowledge requires justification, truth, and belief, the word " knowledge " can't be, according to Williamson's theory, accurately regarded as simply shorthand for " justified true belief.

Thus, the meaning of sentences containing the word " good " cannot be explained entirely in terms of sentences not containing the word " good.

Thus, in the word ship ( pronounced ), the digraph ⟨ sh ⟩ ( two letters ) represents the sound.

Thus, the word myth is of Greek origin, while pith is a Germanic word.

Thus, many typical household applications already in existence like word processing and email were designed specifically to avoid using floating point operations.

Thus, the Bible, written by prophets, is the word of God, so far as it is translated correctly.

Thus the Arabic word ثلاثة ( three ) is transliterated ṯalāṯah.

Thus, the algorithm matched locally unambiguous meanings ( for instance, while the word seal as such is ambiguous, there is only one meaning of " seal " in the animal subhierarchy ).

Thus represents a sequence of three phonemes,, ( the word push in standard English ), while represents the phonetic sequence of sounds ( aspirated " p "),, ( the usual pronunciation of push ).

Thus architects, archaeologists and design historians sometimes use the word to describe the accumulated iterations of a design or a site, whether in literal layers of archaeological remains, or by the figurative accumulation and reinforcement of design ideas over time.

Thus, the word ' left ' in American political parlance may refer to ' liberalism ' and be identified with the Democratic Party, whereas in a country such as France these positions would be regarded as relatively more right-wing, and ' left ' is more likely to refer to ' socialist ' positions rather than ' liberal ' ones.

Thus, it is so called “ reverse loan-word ” as the Pomeranian language borrowed the word from Low German in which it functioned as “ pomeranism ” ( a borrowing from the Pomeranian language ).

Thus the Peloponnesian League was not an " alliance " in the strictest sense of the word ( nor was it wholly Peloponnesian for the entirety of its existence ).

Thus, oil paint is said to be " oil-based ", while acrylic paint is " water-based " ( or sometimes " water-borne ").

Thus, if the score was 3 – 2 with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, and the batter smacked an " over the fence home run ", the game would end at 4 – 3, with the batter only allowed a double, and the runners officially stopped on 2nd and 3rd ( since they were not needed to win the game ).

Thus the world would be seen as " what is among the ground and the sky ", and " Blissymbols " would be seen as " the writing tool to express the world ".

* " Balance ", a song by Axium from The Story Thus Far

Thus, Bakunin's " Collectivist Anarchism ", notwithstanding the title, is seen as a blend of individualism and collectivism.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Thus the adverb-adjective " effective " is used in a sense of " 1a: producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect ", and " capable of producing a result ".

Thus, every non-Han dynasty saw itself as the legitimate holder of the " Mandate of Heaven ", which legitimized the dynastic cycle regardless of social or ethnic background as it was moral integrity and benevolent leadership that had been validating the " Mandate of Heaven.

Thus, living birds were divided into carinates ( keeled ) and ratites ( from ratis, " raft ", referring to the flatness of the sternum ).

Thus he divides perceptions between strong and lively " impressions " or direct sensations and fainter " ideas ", which are copied from impressions.

Thus, in the sentence " There exists a man ", the term " man " is asserted to be part of existence.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".

Thus if we reason from the statement " Pegasus flies " to the statement " Pegasus exists ", we are not asserting that Pegasus is made up of atoms, but rather that Pegasus exists in a particular worldview, the worldview of classical myth.

Thus the " white " elves proper are named ljósálfar " light elves ", contrasting with døckálfar " dark elves ".

Thus began what is now often called " The Golden Age of Hollywood ", which refers roughly to the period beginning with the introduction of sound until the late 1940s.

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

Thus, he used " rare " rather than " strange " to represent the Spanish " raro ", and " syndicate " rather than " trade union " for the Spanish " sindicato ".

Thus: kato " a cat ", katulo " a male cat ", katino " a female cat ".

Thus 59 " counties in themselves ", or ' county boroughs ', were created to administer the urban centres of England.

Thus Heracles's name means " the glory of Hera ", even though he was tormented all his life by Hera, the Queen of the Gods.

Thus accounts such as that of the miraculous " Image Not Made by Hands ", and the weeping and moving " Mother of God of the Sign " of Novgorod are accepted as fact: " Church Tradition tells us, for example, of the existence of an Icon of the Savior during His lifetime ( the " Icon-Made-Without-Hands ") and of Icons of the Most-Holy Theotokos immediately after Him.