(n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
Example Sentences:
(1) I didn’t know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group,” the Louisiana congressman told the Times-Picayune newspaper.
(2) The hate-fueled ignorance and intolerance that group projects is in stark contradiction to what Mr Scalise believes and practices as a father, a husband, and a devoted Catholic.” Nonetheless, Scalise confirmed in his subsequent Times-Picayune interview that he was aware of Duke – who is said to have addressed the conference by video-link – and it has been reported that the hotel that hosted the event was concerned enough to rebuke the group after it found out their politics.
(3) Last year Walter Maestri, emergency chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, one of the worst affected areas, reportedly told the Times-Picayune newspaper: "It appears that the money [for strengthening levees against hurricanes] has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay.
(4) Texas Republicans' niggling over the picayune filibuster rules would give the plot some comic relief, too: they gave one of the "three strikes" allowed under the rules for accepting help in adjusting the back brace she wore to aid her during her marathon speechifying (senators are not allowed to lean on anything during their time).
Talmudic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Talmudical
Example Sentences:
(1) Diseases of the gums and pains originating from the teeth were cited from the Talmud.
(2) Otherwise, I won’t achieve my goal.” To Ronen, he explained that the Talmudic doctrine din rodef amounted to a death sentence for Rabin – an explication that only people familiar with the internal discourse in the Orthodox community over the preceding year would have understood.
(3) In this connection, there is no incongruity perceived between the existence of the evil eye, devils and spirits possessing a person and the teachings of the Talmud.
(4) References were brought from the Bible and Talmud which prove that distinctions--morphological and functional--were recognized between incisors, canines, and molars.
(5) While Donald Trump hosts Saturday Night Live and Ben Carson’s autobiography is parsed with Talmudic scrutiny, Paul, suffering from anemic poll numbers, only just escaped being bounced from Tuesday’s primetime Republican debate in Milwaukee.
(6) Talmudic tradition emphasizes the necessity to acquire means for reestablishing the intactness of a healthy family.
(7) It is no more justifiable than saying that the only future which religious Jews - as Jews - can envision is one in which non-Jews live in complete slavery and subjugation: a claim often made by anti-semites based on highly selective passages from the Talmud .
(8) The first reported episode of rapid whitening of the hair is recorded in the Talmud.
(9) The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."
(10) The concept of the delinquent adolescent is reviewed in terms of definition, culpability, and rehabilitation in concert with psychiatric and Talmudic perspectives.
(11) 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.
(12) In spite of their spatial and temporal dispersion, the talmudic literature and its commentaries proceed from a fundamental unity.
(13) The Talmudic concept has evolved that the delinquent child is a product of a disturbed family and a pathological environment.
(14) Jews were able to bridge the educational gap of a 500-year period of exclusion from universities and medical schools in the Middle Ages through the Talmud, which started as a commentary on the scriptures in the 5th century BC, but developed over the centuries into a comprehensive body of learning incorporating law, art and the sciences.
(15) In the Talmud, there is a detailed symptomatic evaluation of insanity, in the context of legal liability.
(16) In this article, I deal with the multiple references to the liver and liver disease that are found in the books of the Talmud.
(17) According to several local newspapers, Youssef then described the men as "enemies of the nation" who used mosques to promote "the commandments of their holy book, the Talmud ".
(18) Described in the Talmud are a variety of anatomical ear abnormalities such as double ear, pierced ears, small ears, cut off ears, and pendulous ears.
(19) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.
(20) At one meeting it discussed the regulatory position of a registered school, the Talmud Torah Chaim Meirim Wiznitz school in Hackney, which had been the subject of a critical report by Ofsted.