(a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
(n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
(n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 18 years of study, Stephanie Dalley of Oxford University has concluded that the garden was built by the Assyrians in the north of Mesopotamia – in modern Iraq – rather than by their great enemies the Babylonians in the south.
(2) Liver surgery has grown over 2000 years from the mystic hepatoscopy of the Babylonians to the ultimate of orthotopic transplantation by Starzl in 1968.
(3) In the vault for archeological fragments drawers that once held evidence of Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian culture have been pulled out and stripped.
(4) The occurrence of congenital malformations had been documented by the Assyrian and Babylonians about 2,800 B.C.
(5) For White-Spunner, it is also political: it is about telling a long, deep story about Iraq's past that shows the diverse riches of its Assyrian, Babylonian, Sasanian and Arabic heritage.
(6) Twin gods were worshipped by Babylonians and Assyrians (who even introduced them among astronomic constellations), and may be also found in the Persian and Veda religions.
(7) The evidence presented by Dalley, an expert in ancient Middle Eastern languages, emerged from deciphering Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform scripts and reinterpreting later Greek and Roman texts.
(8) It has been trumpeted as "the building with more up top"; a swollen pint glass of a tower that bulges out as it rises to pack in more offices at the lucrative higher levels, with a Babylonian sky-garden up above.
(9) Congenital malformations are mentioned in Assyrian and Babylonian literature, and the opinions of Democritus, Empedocles and Aristotle regarding their origin persisted in modified form until the Middle Ages.
(10) There's Nisaba the Babylonian goddess who looks after the stores of both grain and knowledge in Mesopotamia; the Hindu goddess Saraswati; the Zoroastrian Anahita; the ancient Greek Athena; and the Shinto Omoikane (a fine goddess of holistic thought and multitasking).
(11) Jeremiah 50:25 reads: "The Lord has opened his arsenal and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Sovereign Lord Almighty has work to do in the land of the Babylonians."
(12) You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China.
(13) Rosenberg uses the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian hordes again, in a poem of that title, to illustrate the carnage around him: Sweet laughter charred in the flame That clutched the cloud and earth, While Solomon's towers crashed between The gird of Babylon's mirth.
(14) Since the Babylonian gate was reconstructed in Germany with original bricks in the 1930s, Iraq has repeatedly called for its return .
(15) She believes her research shows that the feat of engineering and artistry was achieved by the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, rather than the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar.
(16) Its walls were once inscribed with the dictator's name, but now harbour more tasteful antiquities from Iraq's Assyrian, Babylonian and Arabic past .
(17) The sizes of the Babylonian cubit, Arab fitr and shibr, Greek eclipse digit, and Chinese chang support the conclusion that the registered distance of the stars was about 10 to 40 metres in these four cultures over the last two millennia.
Bel
Definition:
(n.) The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since nucleocapsids could also be found in the nucleus of infected BEL cells the morphogenesis of PMV 107 closely resembles that of viruses of the morbillivirus group.
(2) The predominant HSRV protein detected in immunoblots by both Bel 1- and Bel 2-specific antisera had an apparent molecular weight of 56 kDa and corresponds to Bet.
(3) National Wholesale Liquidators, a warehouse store, sprawls along the edge of Bel-Air mall on the corner of a road lined with boarded-up houses, empty lots and abandoned stores - a burned-out carcass where the heart of a community once beat.
(4) There are, it is true, vineyards in the outskirts of Vienna and Bordeaux, and even one in the middle of Bel Air in Los Angeles; but the Clos Montmartre is both more central and more incongruous.
(5) Gene expression directed by an HIV-1 LTR lacking functional sites for the inducible cellular transcription factor NF-kappa B was activated over 100-fold by coexpression of Bel-1.
(6) From the regression function and relative tolerance limits, intended as a range of values within which regression values can be expected to be found with a probability that can be fixed a priori, it is possible to calculate 3 BEL values for each environmental TLV-TWA concentration.
(7) A retrospective review of 81 emergency department patients was performed to determine the accuracy of blood ethanol levels (BEL) calculated from serum osmolality.
(8) These proteins were not present in mock-infected BEL cell chromatin.
(9) The contamination took place mainly in Bel Abbès--city located at 90 km from Tlemcen--(12 cases), in Tlemcen (4 cases) and Morocco (5 cases).
(10) Pressure gradients of 271 Pa have no further effect on tubule diameters or cell height, but significantly reduce volumes of LIS and BEL.
(11) The extremist group had destroyed some of Palmyra’s most treasured artefacts, including the Temple of Bel and the Arch of Triumph.
(12) GTE blocked the rescue effect of exogenous nucleosides and enhanced the cytotoxicity of AraC and MTX to L1210 cells and human hepatoma BEL-7402 cells.
(13) Necrotising enteritis (pig-bel) caused by Clostridium welchii type C is a major cause of illness and death in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
(14) In a double blind controlled trial in Sina Sina we have shown that Clostridium welchii type C beta toxoid (beta toxoid) protects against pig-bel (p < 0.02).
(15) An early Daily Mail counter-attack, " The scientific proof that forcing mothers out to work harms children", proclaiming their need for motherly joy and love, was written by Bel Mooney, the agony aunt, columnist and broadcaster.
(16) As determined by tritium-labeled precursor-incorporation assay, C-1027 strongly inhibited DNA and RNA synthesis in hepatoma BEL-7402 cells without affecting protein synthesis.
(17) Bel-1 activates transcription of the long terminal repeat of HFV and HIV.
(18) Alcelaphine herpesviruses (AHV) isolated from wildebeest replicate in both fetal aoudad sheep kidney (FAK) cells and bovine embryonic lung (BEL) cells.
(19) We have studied the effect of a specific FGF receptor suicide antagonist on the growth of bovine epithelial cells (BEL cells) in culture.
(20) The viral target sequence for Bel-1 has been mapped 5' to the start of viral transcription and is therefore likely to be recognized as a DNA sequence.