(n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gentile da Fabriano (d 1427) in his Adoration of the Kings, demonstrates a similar response of toe extension in the infant Jesus when one of the Magi kisses the baby's foot.
(2) Germaine Greer; Julie Bishop; engineer and founder of Youth Without Borders, Yassmin Abdel-Magied; author, academic and Guardian US columnist Roxane Gay; and Best & Less CEO Holly Kramer.
(3) The scene is based on the account of Jesus' birth in the gospel of Matthew, though Matthew does not record a mishap whereby the magi accidentally bestow their gifts on Terry Jones in a dress.
(4) Male accessory gland infection (MAGI, epididymo-prostato-vesiculitis) with abnormal semen quality was rarely the only abnormality in infertile couples since it occurred in no more than 1.6% of 2871 couples evaluated in 7 centres during a 3-year period.
(5) It is concluded that features of MAGI in semen may regress spontaneously and are not influenced by the doxycycline treatment.
(6) And of course the authorities are incensed, affirming once again that old adage: there is only one thing more cheerless than a Magi with a severed head – a local bureaucrat armed with zoning laws.
(7) It’s not enough to point out, as Abdel-Magied did, that structural inequality is to blame for the lack of women’s progress.
(8) "It neither makes sense to get into an adoration of the magi stance of the New Labour project, nor a repudiationist stance," he says, at one point.
(9) I remember how surprised I was when one of the mothers asked me if her three children could dress up as the three magi at Epiphany, when Austrian children from each parish go from house to house collecting money for the Catholic Three Wise Kings’ mission.
(10) Updated at 12.02pm BST 11.55am BST No crib for a bed Lest there be any doubt that 19-year-old Nick Kyrgios has made his mark at Wimbledon, the old magi of Australian tennis have been lined up to pay tribute.
(11) The judge, Oscar Magi, dismissed the libel accusations but upheld the other charges.
(12) In the sculpture The Adoration of the Magi by the 13th century sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio deformities characteristic of arthritis may be seen in the hands of the central magus.
(13) 6.49pm BST But the wise Aussie magi could have told him that a break doesn't count as a break until you've backed it up with your serve.
(14) Caillebotte can make a painting out of nothing, and that’s what Heaney can do, too – that’s the lovely thing about it.” Also included in the anthology is the late Dennis O’Driscoll’s poem Memo to a Painter, inspired by the 16th-century painting The Adoration of the Magi, which depicts the nativity in elegant surroundings, without the stable or its animals.
(15) Now Wordsworth Editions has released The Drug and Other Stories , which includes five works that have never been published before: Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum, The Murder in X.
(16) On the straw ground in front of Jesus is the severed head of a second Magi.
(17) These days he almost counts as one of the elderly Aussie magi.
(18) To a certain extent, the numbers created by the magi of the economy have been our beacons through the recession and the slow recovery.
Maki
Definition:
(n.) A lemur. See Lemur.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Makie dolls are another example of commercial production, Rowley points out.
(2) Comparison of wavelength-selected ODMR results with those obtained for the poly(Hg5U) complex of a point-mutated chromosomal ssb gene product (Eco SSB) carrying substitutions of Phe for Trp [Khamis, M. I., Casas-Finet, J. R., Maki, A. H., Murphy, J.
(3) Makis Sinodinos (@MakisSinodinos) Μπήκε ο φράχτης στο Σύνταγμα, μαζεύεται κοσμος Σύνταγμα.
(4) A bacteriologic culture using a variant of Maki's technique was performed on the 205 catheters removed before patient discharge.
(5) The transcriptional organization was determined for the DNA polymerase III epsilon subunit (dnaQ) and the ribonuclease H (rnh) genes, which are closely spaced and organized in a face-to-face system (Maki, H., Horiuchi, T., and Sekiguchi, M. (1983) Proc.
(6) Wavelength-selected ODMR measurements on E. coli SSB reveal the presence of two spectrally distinct tryptophan sites (Khamis, M. I., Casas-Finet, J. R., and Maki, A. H. (1987) J. Biol.
(7) His surviving children are all women: Maki, by his first wife, Evelyn Mase, and Zenani and Zindzi, by his second wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela .
(8) British startup MakieLabs was early into the trend: its Makies Doll Factory iPad app helps kids create a doll, which their parents can then order.
(9) H.H., & Maki, A. H. (1991) Biochemistry 30, 4565-4572], show that As(III) binds with high affinity to the Cys223 residue and that the Trp225 side chain is located close enough to that of Cys223 to produce a heavy-atom perturbation when As(III) is bound.
(10) Maki, 58, is a businesswoman and founder of the House of Mandela wine label, taking on a white-dominated industry.
(11) After removal of CV catheters all catheter tips were cultured semiquantitatively by rollplate technique according to Maki (26) and subsequent immersion broth culture.
(12) In contrast to a previous report [Davis, J.M., & Maki, A.H. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 6249-6256], this implies that even in the muscle enzymes all three aromatic side chains are phosphorescent.
(13) Makies Fashion (£1.99) There are dozens of not-that-good dressing up games for Android, but Makies Fashion is a cut above: an app that gets children to create their own outfits for virtual dolls, then snap pictures of them as they strut down a catwalk.
(14) Catheters were removed at 72 hours and the tips cultured by the semi-quantitative technique of Maki.
(15) The diagnosis of long-term CVC sepsis can be difficult, but the use of quantitative blood cultures for catheters left in place and the Maki method for culturing those catheters that are removed will aid physicians in their quest for diagnostic certainty.
(16) "No longer can they say that these are isolated incidents of violence carried out by stone-throwing anarchists," said Makis Papadopoulos, who owns a popular tourist store in the capital's historic Plaka district where shopkeepers were fearfully boarding up premises.
(17) In an extension of earlier studies on the Escherichia coli plasmid-encoded single-stranded DNA-binding proteins pIP71a SSB, F SSB and R64 SSB [Khamis, M. I., Casas-Finet, J. R., Maki, A. H., Ruvolo, P. P. & Chase, J. W. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 3347-3354; Casas-Finet, J. R., Khamis, M. I., Maki, A. H., Ruvolo, P. P. & Chase, J. W. (1987) J. Biol.
(18) Molecular weight estimates for the two heterologous components of EFI, CBF, and a Y-box binding protein (Celada, A., and Maki, R.A. (1989) Mol.
(19) The results of this study could hardly be explained by Maki beta-G theory, but were consistent with the assumption that the precipitation-dissolution equilibrium of calcium bilirubinate is the key of pigment gallstone formation, thus the increases of the above mentioned bile components, including beta-G activity, would bias this equilibrium towards calcium bilirubinate precipitation and therefore promote gallstone formation.
(20) Megan Chapman, a human rights lawyer, is helping the residents take the tribal leader to court; she and colleague Andrew Maki have co-founded JEI, a human rights organisation dedicated to giving paralegal training and representation to slum residents.