(n.) A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
(n.) One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.
(n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
(v. t.) To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(3) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(4) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
(5) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(6) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(7) Besides the 15 cases reported in 1984, 6 additional cases of anti-vWF alloantibodies were reported, i.e., one from Spain (a relative of a previously reported case), two from Venezuela (brother and sister) and three from North Carolina (unrelated patients).
(8) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(9) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(10) In this article, two siblings, a brother and his sister who showed simultaneous occurrence of MDS and monoclonal gammopathy are reported.
(11) Ithink my interest in Big Brother has finally flatlined.
(12) How different the process would be with his half-brother.
(13) Jeremy Corbyn accused of backing 'brothers in arms' over women Read more There are many who will not like what I’m saying.
(14) A family of four siblings is described in which two phenotypically female XY children and one male each have developed germ cell tumors, demonstrating that brothers of affected sisters may also be at risk.
(15) The following correction was made on Tuesday April 3 2007 Dr Seyed Safavi would like to make it clear that he was conducting research on his own behalf, and not for his brother General Yahya Rahim Safavi, as we stated in the article below.
(16) Two strikingly similar brothers issued from consanguineous parents in the second degree present the following patterns of anomalies: retardation of growth, mental deficiency, ocular abnormalities, pectus excavatum and camptodactyly.
(17) Biosynthetic studies were performed in a patient with beta-thalassemia intermedia heterozygous for both beta-thalassemia with normal hemoglobins A2 and F and beta-thalassemia with increased Hb A2, in his both parents, one sister and one brother.
(18) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
(19) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(20) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
Fratricide
Definition:
(n.) The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
(n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added that some postings were "rhetoric that brings back memories of tragic, fratricidal, factional conflicts in the 1990s that cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians".
(2) Andrew Cooper, Conservative peer: ‘It is no accident that Fallon used Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andrew Cooper.
(3) The fratricidal fighting erupted several weeks before a much-anticipated detente scheduled for 22 January in Geneva, adding another layer of complexity to a war that long ago ceased to have two clear-cut protagonists.
(4) Referring to Cain's fratricide, the authors investigate the origin of guilt.
(5) Though Ed Miliband has been happy to admit past Labour errors on Murdoch and other matters, his appetite for political fratricide may be sated.
(6) So both sides in this fratricidal power struggle are left weakened.
(7) Of course, it is no accident that the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, chose to use Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile.
(8) Tragically, there is the possibility that 'fratricide' may have been involved."
(9) Look around the Tory party today, and chaos reigns; Britain feels more socially fratricidal than I have ever known it.
(10) For the radical socialist left in Scotland, this is the continuation of a fratricidal nightmare.
(11) Rather it is that religious prejudice, once awakened, is destablising, fratricidal, and difficult for anyone to control.
(12) He was a good lad.” I remarked what an extraordinary testament it was to the mindless, fratricidal nature of the conflict that he was mourning the death of one of his captors.
(13) George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March is about a Democratic primary campaign unfolding in the key state of Ohio, in an atmosphere heavy with fratricidal betrayal behind the scenes.
(14) The speed and extent of peptide-induced changes in the appearance of CTLs suggest that the destruction may be due primarily to self-recognition and self-destruction of individual CTLs (suicide) rather than to the destruction of some CTLs by others of the same clone in the same culture (fratricide).
(15) After being at each other's throats for years in fratricidal wars, we're now all culturally European."
(16) There was talk of fratricide, and comparisons were made with Cain and Abel.