(n.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Warner Bros His first epiphany came during a high school version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in the high school auditorium before 1,500 people.
(2) If it felt like an epiphany for Benn, it was more like a Sermon on the Mount to his Labour colleagues.
(3) In the film, Gould says that he knows he cannot beat death; indeed, his acceptance of its approach is at the root of his epiphany.
(4) For Demirtaş, the Diyarbakir killings were an epiphany of the kind that hundreds of thousands of Kurds have experienced over the past 40 years – generally in response to a government atrocity.
(5) I don't know of any recent astronauts who've had an epiphany based on space travel."
(6) But as my adult-onset acne continued to get worse and worse – and more resistant to medication – I had an epiphany.
(7) Talking with Hebden as he chats about making music, or the feeling in the room as he DJed that final night of Plastic People, you notice how he describes his life as a series of little epiphanies.
(8) Osborne gets lost In an interview with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Kath Viner, George Osborne admitted to an unusual epiphany on getting to know the north.
(9) Late, late has been their epiphany, but still too late for this year.
(10) This professional epiphany was mirrored by a challenge to his family life when his son Kai (Markram has five children from two marriages) was diagnosed with Asperger's, an autism spectrum disorder.
(11) The capacity to inspire epiphany in others is a life-changing gift.
(12) His explanation for the leap is that he had an epiphany when he was in his last year of Stanford, when one of his younger brothers came out as gay.
(13) When I was 56 we went to New England on holiday and I had an epiphany.
(14) I had at least two life epiphanies during Where Dreams Go to Die, which contains maybe my favourite lyric of all time: “I regret the day your ugly carcass caught my eye”.
(15) Were it not for the PKK, which Öcalan launched with the murder of two Turkish soldiers in 1984, it is possible that the forced assimilation of the Kurds into mainstream Turkish society would have advanced much further, and the epiphanies of Demirtaş and others may not have happened.
(16) Making commitments now risks overcompensation for households and adding significantly to the cost of household assistance.” Tony Abbott's GST 'epiphany' has been a long time in the works Read more The New South Wales Coalition government led the charge for increasing the GST to help fund the shortfall in health funding, while the Victorian and Queensland Labor governments suggested the Medicare levy as a fairer alternative .
(17) Intriguingly, it was not the prospect of Lebedev, bearing a vast bouquet of P45s, that caused alarm in the blogosphere, but a handful of Liddle's hundreds of columns, such as a grotesque ad feminam attack in the Spectator which was, for many of us, an epiphany, the first moment we had ever felt warmly towards Harriet Harman.
(18) "When I saw there was a whole system of science based on genetics, of serious work in the evolutionary pattern, that was an epiphany.
(19) But no sign yet that the Davos set is worrying unduly: by Epiphany – 6 January – FTSE 100 chief executives had already earned more than a year of the average wage .
(20) T he moment that changed James Watt’s life – his beer epiphany, which he recalls with surprising (or well-rehearsed) precision – did not arrive in the most auspicious venue: “It was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from the States, bought at Tesco’s in Stonehaven, to wash down some fish and chips.
Illuminating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illuminate
(a.) Giving or producing light; used for illumination.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(3) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
(4) These data show an extra-hepatic lipolytic effect of glucagon in vivo, but do not illuminate the significance of this effect in the intact animal.
(5) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
(6) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
(9) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
(12) One of these has high sporulation-inducing activity after illumination in vitro.
(13) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(14) The effects of continuous illumination, adrenalectomy and induction or inhibition of microsomal enzymes on antipyretic action of phenacetin were evaluated.
(15) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(16) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(17) superficial or interstitial illumination) and the optical interaction coefficients of the irradiated tissue.
(18) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(19) On prolonged UV-A illumination the ESR spectrum of 16-doxylstearic acid in dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles loaded with 8-methoxypsoralen changed dramatically as a second broad component gradually appeared.
(20) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.