(n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
(v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Well, I'd be surprised if anyone actually believes it has the power to inspire Damascene conversions among the prejudiced.
(2) Always a good cook, she had a Damascene moment one day when, looking for a way to perk up a slightly flat pasta dish, she gave it a squeeze of lemon.
(3) Many Damascenes who oppose the regime, including most of the activists who organised the street protests of 2011, have left for Beirut.
(4) Ticciati has, however, played in a Prom before: as a teenager, with the National Youth Orchestra, in a concert of Sibelius's First Symphony conducted by Colin Davis – the Damascene experience that inspired him to pursue conducting.
(5) For those who believe that celebrity culture is anti-culture, and that any society that elevates random individuals and ignores the rest has nothing to teach us, any Damascene conversions on BBC1 will be a sigh in a storm, which will ebb to nothing when the celebrity returns to its natural habitat.
(6) I remember being called to see a patient who had fallen out of bed and vividly recall that Damascene moment of realising that for all the lectures, revision, exams and mnemonics that had characterised medical school, I had no idea what to do with this human being or how to solve the problem of her being on the floor.
(7) I worked at Mixmag for five years, a die-hard indie fan who had a Damascene conversion at the age of 20 in the unlikely setting of a rave on Margate pier.
(8) Unless Zuckerberg has had a truly Damascene conversion, it is unlikely Facebook and Google will lead the way, as their profits are so dependent on collecting user data.
(9) The report, called Women at the Top 2005, congratulates the Conservative Women's Organisation (CWO) for its recent Damascene conversion to all-women shortlists after standing opposed to the idea for a long time.
(10) Mark Lynas , an anti-GM protester in the late 1990s who now admits to a Damascene conversion to the merits of the technology in recent years, believes the protesters have misjudged the public attitude to GM this time round.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trio had been friends for a decade previously, and shared pivotal musical experiences (a love of Weezer 's second album, Pinkerton; a Damascene indie rock conversion via the Pixies ' Surfer Rosa).
(12) I’m looking forward to being an old artist and not giving a shit.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I had a Damascene moment when I realised that the masquerade of dressing up as a woman and getting away with it, or “passing”, as they call it in the tranny world, was a fairly unrewarding experience.’ Outfit by Central St Martins student Oto Kazumi.
(13) She said: "What is clear from today's statement is the secretary of state has not had a Damascene moment where the scales have fallen from his eyes, and rolled back key elements of his reforms.
(14) The report calls for the City regulators to report to parliament in two years' time on a new regime to allow new banks to set up with less capital and welcomes the government's Damascene conversion to open up the payments system to new players.
(15) The speed and reach of Rupert Murdoch's damascene re-conversion to the web emerged today after the News Corp chairman announced his first internet acquisition since the dotcom boom.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close • Some Damascenes expressed surprise at Assad's agreement to hand over chemical weapons, Jonathan Steele reports from the Syrian capital.
(17) The powerful ranks of oil and gas industry executives had not witnessed a Damascene moment.
(18) "For years they think we have been happy with tiny reforms; it is insulting," says one 30-year-old Damascene man who asked not to be named.
(19) Ann Farmer Woodford Green, Essex • Anglican bishops Desmond Tutu and George Carey have had Damascene conversions on euthanasia and now back the right of the terminally ill to end their lives in dignity.
(20) Martin Chulov, in Beirut, and Alec Luhn, in Moscow, report : Damascenes reported more checkpoints than usual in regime-held areas, but said the capital continued to function as it had during the past two years of ever more entrenched war.
Damascus
Definition:
(n.) A city of Syria.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(2) Jordanian officials are aware of possible retaliation from an increasingly cornered Damascus, which this week accused Amman of "playing with fire" by opening its border to a military push.
(3) The St Anna parish – Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri in Italian – accepted one of two families it promised to take in: a father, mother and two children who fled their home in Damascus.
(4) Their chief conduits in Damascus have been leading members of the Assad clan, but not necessarily Bashar al-Assad himself.
(5) "The organisation's top officials are here in Damascus; our relations with the state and Syrian people are excellent," he said.
(6) Obama aides cited intercepted communications of Syrian officials and evidence of movements by Syria's military around Damascus before the attack that killed more than 300 people, said Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee.
(7) If so, they will be more jihadist, sectarian, brutal and anti-western when they take Damascus.
(8) Earlier this month, Israeli warplanes struck targets near the capital, Damascus, reportedly wiping out Iranian missiles destined for Hezbollah.
(9) At Mabhouh's funeral, near Damascus, the Hamas leader Khalid Meshal blamed Israel for the killing, promising revenge and declaring an "open war".
(10) Our meeting is in the Presidential Palace in Damascus, a place of vast halls and marble floors.
(11) They were reported to have discussed a forthcoming visit by Hariri to Damascus.
(12) Collections of Psammomys obesus from near Damascus, Syria in May 1990 and November 1991 contained animals of all ages.
(13) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
(14) Locally brokered ceasefires have taken effect elsewhere in Syria in recent months, notably in the Moadimeyah district of Damascus, which was also once a hub of opposition control.
(15) Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Druze community, said: "The crucial point was when the battle of Homs started and it quickly became clear that the regime wanted to clear the whole route to Damascus and beyond.
(16) The @guardian"s Jonathan Steele in Damascus "you get a sense of a city that"s emptying out a little bit" (mp3) Updated at 2.35pm BST 2.09pm BST The video below is said to show a protest in Kafar Takharem, Idlib province, today.
(17) It said Damascus had proved itself "incapable of using its weapons systems proportionately or discriminately" and had fired lethal Scud missiles against its own cities, such as Aleppo.
(18) Syrian TV said a jet crashed due to technical problems • A pro-government Syrian TV station says one of its cameramen who was kidnapped three days ago is believed to be dead while the others are being held by rebels near the capital Damascus.
(19) We would be prevented from doing so; we are prevented from doing so.” Describing the situation as agonising, she said: “Whether you are a Syrian NGO [non-governmental organisation] on the frontline in eastern Aleppo being bombed into oblivion, or a UN worker sitting in Damascus or accompanying convoys across conflict lines, we are all really taking risks and being mentally pummelled by some of the positions in which we are put.” The deteriorating situation in Syria and continual bombardment of eastern Aleppo has raised the political stakes to new heights in recent days, with Russia being directly and repeatedly accused of war crimes because of its support for Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.
(20) Madaya is an example of where over a million Syrians remain under siege with extremely limited medical evacuations today.” Speaking on behalf of the Syrian NGO alliance, Fadi Al-Dairi, the co-founder of Hand in Hand for Syria, told the Guardian: “We have been cooperating with OCHA, but we would add our points and OCHA Damascus would remove them.