(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(2) Being able to look ahead, being able to make a correct prediction of events and developments has been of great interest to mankind since biblical times and with good reason.
(3) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(4) It is true that the further you are from the Ebola crisis, the more biblically paranoid you are about the disease.
(5) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(6) Haemophilia is a rare inherited disease of blood clotting known since biblical times.
(7) Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson , who is currently positioned second in the polls behind Trump, was given respectful time to explain the medical consensus dismissing what many see as crackpot theories about vaccines and autism – but was only pressed briefly on his own arguably equally crackpot assertion that any form of progressive taxation amounts to socialism and the US should opt for a biblical tithe system instead.
(8) Titanic now comes in behind 1977's Star Wars, 1965's The Sound of Music, 1982's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, and even the 1956 Charlton Heston biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
(9) When David Moyes was unveiled as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor after 27 trophy-laden years at Old Trafford, the rhetoric was almost biblical.
(10) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(11) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
(12) On the Israeli side, some also argue for one state, but one in which Palestinians are denied full democratic rights, thus ensuring the Israeli hold on the biblical land of Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank) and Jewish dominance.
(13) The message which comes from these sanctions is that the biblical standard must be held by all,” he said.
(14) Kony, a self-professed spirit medium intent on governing Uganda using biblical commandments and Acholi traditions, launched his insurgency in 1987.
(15) This paper traces the history of disturbed sleep, deep pain and exhaustion from biblical times to the present.
(16) I look forward to what the least biblical of biblical films will do with this most malleable of texts.
(17) White House officials also revealed the Pentagon was providing “non-lethal” assistance to the Ukrainian military and claimed there were signs of human rights abuses against minorities in Crimea, including the apparent torture of dead Tatar man and “houses marked in a biblical fashion”.
(18) It was a biblical model by which workers in these parts measured their worth to the community.
(19) It was somehow fitting that the day the US and Cuba announced the end of decades of hostilities was also the feast of San Lazaro, or St Lazarus – the biblical figure who rose from the dead.
(20) Mother Abigail's dreams come courtesy of God; she is his prophet, and she assembles her own biblical-type followers.
Canine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.
(n.) A canine tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(2) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(3) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(4) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(5) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(6) Of 3,837 canine neoplasms from case records at Kansas State University, only 4 were of carotid body tumors.
(7) In only two of the killed and four of the hospitalized persons, reports of intact canine teeth as demonstrated by the typical lesions were available.
(8) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(9) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
(10) The fluorescent immunoassay offered several advantages over currently used methods for determining levels of canine haptoglobin in serum.
(11) The purpose of this study was to determine if aspirin, in doses that elevate plasma salicylate concentrations to values reported in patients with salicylate-induced pulmonary edema, produce pulmonary vasoconstriction in a canine, isolated perfused left lower lung lobe (LLL) preparation.
(12) A novel stimulant of gastric acid secretion was extracted and purified from the non-antral gastric mucosa of the canine stomach and some of its biological properties were examined.
(13) When the MD rule was used, the magnitude of the DFT gave the best performance for both canine and human samples.
(14) Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples of canine amelanotic melanomas and normal canine tissues were studied immunohistochemically for the presence of S100 protein.
(15) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
(16) Blood flow changes in the dental pulp of lower canine teeth of mature cats and incisors of mature rats were investigated with simultaneous laser Doppler flowmetry and local 125I-clearance (wash-out) during electrical sympathetic stimulation, efferent stimulation of n. alveolaris inferior (IAN) (cats) and i.a.
(17) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
(18) A technique of diversion of the gastroduodenal vein in a canine model is described to compare long-term metabolic effects of systemic versus portal pancreatic endocrine drainage.
(19) Large doses of dsFab are efficacious in the treatment of dysrhythmias in this canine model of N oleander cardiac glycoside poisoning.
(20) These cases suggest that the role of R. sanguineus in the transmission of the etiologic agent of canine ehrlichiosis and other pathogenic organisms to humans may be underestimated and warrants investigation.