(n.) The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.
(n.) A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible.
(n.) A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
(2) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
(3) It’s no good me swearing on a Bible; I don’t share your faith.” Morrison said: “I will do it, Ray, but I think it’s a very offensive thing for you to ask me to do but I’ll do it if that’s what you require...if you insist I will.” Hadley did not persist with the demand.
(4) On Tuesday, Obama was sworn in with his palm on the same velvet-covered Bible used by Lincoln in 1861, but he had no bible with him at the re-run.
(5) It was a reference to a Bible passage in the New Testament.
(6) A jury is empanelled, 11 of them swearing on the Bible, one on the Qur’an: six women, six men.
(7) I suspect that means he does in fact hew pretty closely to what the Bible says.
(8) Justin Chang, a reviewer for the film industry bible, Variety magazine, called the film a "compelling psychological profile" of Tilikum.
(9) The proposal aims to help pupils learn about the Bible's impact "on our history, language, literature and democracy" and will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the authorised version's publication, Gove said earlier this year.
(10) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(11) There have been dozens of inundations in the course of the world's history, and whoever wrote this bit of the Bible had probably experienced one.
(12) A systematic search was made in the Hebrew Bible for expressions of emotional distress.
(13) People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality.
(14) Both men would take Bibles, he said Indonesians should be too familiar with death to support executions | Laksmi Pamuntjak Read more At midnight, a handful of former art students of Sukumaran and other supporters held a small prayer vigil at the prison door.
(15) It follows the fatal shootings of nine black church members , including a state senator, at a Bible study in Charleston.
(16) I had to read the Bible and other religious books to the priest and answer questions to show I understood them.
(17) "So, as I read the Bible, I am convicted that men and women are equal and different.
(18) "It is often said that 'Queen of the South' is the only team mentioned in the Bible - but I can find many mentions of 'Bury' (starting in Genesis 23) and 'Reading' (Acts 8:28), and, stretching a point, 'Hearts' and 'Wolves' also get some space.
(19) In the Bible God describes His involvement with this dramatic movement … We will learn that the Gay Pride movement would successfully develop as a sign to the world that Judgement Day was about to occur," he writes.
(20) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
Polyglot
Definition:
(a.) Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a polyglot lexicon, Bible.
(a.) Versed in, or speaking, many languages.
(n.) One who speaks several languages.
(n.) A book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hungary, now one of Europe’s keenest proponents of border protection, was less than a century ago part of a polyglot, multinational commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
(2) Mirror writing and reading in this polyglot individual affected only the sinistrad (Hebrew) writing and reading system, leaving the dextrad (Latin) system unimpaired.
(3) Outside on the pavement, a polyglot scrum of journalists waited impatiently for news.
(4) Two cases of aphasia in polyglot patients who experienced different symptoms in each of the languages they knew are reported.
(5) Polyglot Roman emperor Charles V declared: "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
(6) Clegg, something of a cosmopolitan polyglot, picked tracks from all over the world.
(7) In Rates Of Exchange, the imaginary Slakan language was largely invented over several years by the combined contributions of the polyglot participants of the council's annual Cambridge seminar of contemporary writing, of which Bradbury was the founder and, for many years, chairman.
(8) The issue of polylingualism and polyglotism reintroduces some general psychoanalytic hypotheses.
(9) It is argued in this comment that both language mixing (including utterance-level mixing) and spontaneous translation are also found in normal polyglots, and that they may not therefore always be reflecting language deficit in aphasics.
(10) Cerebral asymmetries for L1 (Italian), L2 (English), and L3 (French, German, Spanish, or Russian) were studied, by using a verbal-manual interference paradigm, in a group of Italian right-handed polyglot female students at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (SSLM-School for Interpreters and Translators) of the University of Trieste and in a control group of right-handed monolingual female students at the Medical School of the University of Trieste.
(11) Compared to the politicians who went before, including the raving Rudy Giuliani, the polyglot former model was a positively Evita-esque breath of fresh air.
(12) Perecman (1984) Brain and Language, 23, 43-63, proposes that language mixing (and especially utterance level mixing) in polyglot aphasics reflects a linguistic deficit and that spontaneous translation indicates a prelinguistic processing deficit.
(13) Reith was conservative and traditionalist in his own taste, but from its earliest days the BBC was a culturally polyglot organisation, a clash of aesthetic tones.
(14) This could explain why, in some polyglots, aphasia affects one of the known languages preferentially.
(15) These studies emphasize that overall incidence studies in a polyglot population can have very limited meaning, and that greater attention must be paid to the actual racial variations within a population.
(16) In subjects in whom the different known idioms were learned during early childhood, the anatomical representation of the languages is similar, which explains why, in this kind of polyglot, all the known languages can be equally affected by cerebral damage that causes aphasia.
(17) The 85-year-old polyglot does it all, and the Guardian has called him the "god of gravitas".
(18) The predominantly white working class has morphed into a more polyglot, multi-ethnic working-class community with its fair share of asylum seekers and refugees, but it is the ethos that has changed more.
(19) The upper classes will presumably continue to cultivate languages because elites know how to reproduce themselves (the present cabinet is the most polyglot in recent history).
(20) The authors discuss the problem and analyze the available literature in an attempt to formulate a pathogenetic hypothesis of the different involvement of the known idioms sometimes observed in aphasic polyglots.