(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.
Metamorphosis
Definition:
(n.) Change of form, or structure; transformation.
(n.) A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of which organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes. See Transformation.
(n.) The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Birthdates of neurons were obtained from autoradiograms of animals receiving tritiated thymidine from gastrulation through 1 month after metamorphosis.
(2) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(3) During the first 15 to 20 min of metamorphosis the larval arms are retracted and resorbed into the aboral surface of the juvenile.
(4) These antibodies were used to study the localization and synthesis of myosin heavy chain and tropomyosin in the limb buds of premetamorphic (stage VI-VII) tadpoles treated with triiodothyronine (T3) to induce metamorphosis.
(5) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
(6) Secondary echinococcosis generates by asexual regressive metamorphosis of larval element intro larval forms.
(7) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
(8) The present investigation examines metamorphosis in the sternal ribs of American blacks (N = 53 males, N = 20 females), and tests the application of age estimation standards developed by the authors from a white population.
(9) Both experiments provided evidence that the shape of persistent leg motoneurons is stabilized and even regulated by cellular interactions during metamorphosis.
(10) Observations suggest changes induced by the cholesterol diet are comparable to cytologic alterations seen in spontaneous and drug induced hepatic tumors, as well as to more general "fatty metamorphosis" of the liver.
(11) Other workers have shown that prolactin blocks the rise in activity of several hydrolytic enzymes that occurs in regressing tissue during metamorphosis.
(12) The cup-shaped adhesive papillae of Distaplia occidentalis evert at the onset of metamorphosis and each transforms into a hyperboloidal configuration.
(13) Representative animals were reared through metamorphosis and their visuotectal projections were assayed using standard electrophysiology techniques.
(14) Exposure of embryos to 10(-8) M T3, which regulates amphibian metamorphosis, resulted in the premature induction of albumin mRNA, such that it is evident by stage 43.
(15) The study represents the first immunohistochemical demonstration of IR-TRH in larval anurans, and serves as a basis for clarification of the neuroendocrine regulation of metamorphosis.
(16) During insect metamorphosis many larval neurons persist but are modified to serve new behavioral roles at later stages of life.
(17) After the onset of metamorphosis the quality of life was better in splenectomized than in non-splenectomized patients.
(18) Sister Cristina's moment of metamorphosis from singing nun into global internet sensation involves four judges listening to her with their backs turned, as the Voice format demands, then spinning around when the cheering of the audience becomes hysterical and they've heard enough to know they want this mystery singer on their team.
(19) These results are interpreted to indicate that both treatment of explants with T4 and elevation of endogenous levels of thyroid hormones during spontaneous metamorphosis increased the relative rates of synthesis of several identical proteins.
(20) Staining of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive fibers in the median eminence and pituitary was sparse or absent in premetamorphic tadpoles, but became increasingly more intense as metamorphosis progressed.