What's the difference between ephesian and roisterer?
Ephesian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.
(n.) A native of Ephesus.
(n.) A jolly companion; a roisterer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thatcher's American granddaughter, Amanda , 19, read from the King James Bible, Ephesians 6, 10-18, while Cameron gave the second reading, John 14, 1-6.
(2) "Be ye angry, and sin not," advised Paul to the Ephesians, "let not the sun go down upon your wrath."
Roisterer
Definition:
(n.) A blustering, turbulent fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Long before he first shrugged on Al Swearengen's stripy jacket and oiled his soup-straining moustache, McShane had always had his pick of cads and roister-doisters.
(2) Tories and their commentators roistered with delight at the non-shambles of Osborne's spending review.
(3) The survey was conducted in two Metropolitan courts; one in an area frequented by vagrants, and the other in a mixed middle-class and working-class area.Few of the offenders were casual roisterers and the majority had a serious drinking problem.
(4) (A 2007 survey for AA Legal Services of 2,600 elderly parents and adult children revealed that 70% of offspring fear that they will inherit only their roistering parents' debts .)
(5) A leadership election without him could all too easily be portrayed, both by his admirers and the party's opponents, as having no legitimacy: of playing Henry IV without Falstaff or, to be more exact, Prince Hal – the wayward roisterer who, by grace of state, is transformed into "this star of England".