(n.) One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the services, etc.
(n.) A priest; -- so called in contempt or ridicule.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, Andre Geim was probably best known for his "frog levitation" experiment.
(2) An electrode system is described for the near-simultaneous application and measurement of translational, levitational and rotational forces induced by AC electric fields, and this has been used to investigate the differences in the AC electrodynamics of viable and non-viable yeast cells.
(3) 7) Cesar Martinez (Zamora) makes the ball levitate after goal v Caracas Rising star 8) Barack Obama Singing Thriller by Michael Jackson You can’t Beat It 9) Hey Jude in a minor key Not quite White 10) Modern day Aladdin Riding rug-ged
(4) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
(5) By now we all know the Falcons chief goal - levitation to the next playoff round (at the bare minimum), mandatory for a program that has failed to do so on three occasions under head coach Mike Smith .
(6) One story is about Howard Thurston, the American magician who perfected the levitating lady trick.
(7) Critics scoffed that it was out of date before it began because it was obvious to them that magnetic levitation would be the future of train travel.
(8) I’m sure the person had a valid reason but it should be clear that the Ka’bah should not suddenly be surrounding by whirring Segways.” A hoverboard is a levitating board that was popularised by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films.
(9) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
(10) During a well performed levitation of the right arm in hypnosis as compared to resting conditions, we found a global increase of cortical blood flow and a regional activation of temporal areas; the latter finding is considered to reflect acoustical attention.
(11) The device uses magnetic-levitation technology: four disc-shaped “hover engines” induce an opposing magnetic field in a special surface, enabling the Hendo to hover an inch above the ground.
(12) Bubble levitation of viruses delibrately injected into the surf produced 200 times more virus per milliliter in the aerosol than were present in samples from the surf.
(13) These drops have been suspended by acoustic levitation in a small chamber mounted on a stage of an optical microscope, which allowed easy viewing.
(14) Moving up through the ranks you get to the Vandals with their cloaking devices and stealth tactics; the chunky, well-armed Fallen Captains protected behind personal force fields; the wizards who levitate above the surface firing energy balls.
(15) Deltoid muscle fibrosis produced the unique clinical sign of gradual, involuntary, and irreducible arm levitation.
(16) He once described himself as the "Casanova of causes" and it's true that he embraced a staggering array of beliefs and crusades, ranging from the impressively enlightened (campaigning for euthanasia and against the death penalty) to the downright potty (believing, say, in the benefits of levitation).
(17) Another puzzle, dating back decades, is whether dust levitates from the lunar surface.
(18) After the pomp of the opening ceremony, which had featured can-can dancers, a levitating Eiffel Tower and David Guetta – among many other things – France struggled to come to terms with the occasion.
(19) The buble adsorption and virus concentration in the surf is analagous to industrial bubble levitation processes that concentrate metallic ores, enzymes, and finely divided organic crystals.
(20) A 1- to 3-minute exercise involving imagination (of an apple) and ideomotor ideation (hand levitation) is a simple, benign technique that is useful for illustrating to patients the nature of imagery and hypnosis.
Leviticus
Definition:
(n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
(2) I wouldn’t be surprised if he takes the passage in Leviticus 18:22 – “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman.
(3) The attitude expressed in Leviticus, that it was an abomination, was the order of the day."
(4) The Biblical verse "If a woman emits semen and bears a manchild" (Leviticus 12:2) is interpreted by the Talmudic Sages and more recent Jewish sources to mean that if a woman emits her "semen" first, she will bear a male child but if the man emits his semen first, she will bear a female child.
(5) And you think of the teenage years, of defiance for defiance’s sake, of assertive mockery and the contempt of selective deafness, of constant jockeying for power in a relationship suddenly destabilized – of this fathers-and-sons thing that stretches back 152 years to Turgenev and a further 2,500 years to Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
(6) Christ Fellowship’s employment application also demands that applicants certify that they are not “a practicing homosexual in accordance with scriptures (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Romans 1;26-27, I Corinthians 6:9-10, I Timothy 1:10) and do not engage in an intimate sexual relationship with anyone other than my legal spouse”.
(7) No mention of amphibians, one of those nasty ambiguities that Leviticus hates so much, both one thing and another (which makes any combination in a single thing unclean: clothes made of two kinds of fabric, animals that breed with other species), but the amphibians would surely have decided to take the watery route to survival.
(8) Particularly the food-statute, we find in the bible (Leviticus chapter 11 and Deuteronomium chapter 14), demonstrated education of health already, in the antiquity.
(9) As far back as Leviticus, the Old Testament God actively forbade people to seek out mediums.
(10) Leviticus is big on diseases, talking about illness as a punishment from God and the need for cleanliness.