(v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
(v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
(v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
(v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
(v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
(v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
(v. t.) To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
(v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.
(n.) The act of smiting; a blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has realised what he's dealing with in mankind, and thinks, without saying it to Noah: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will I smite any more every thing living, as I have done."
(2) George Osborne has seized on that as a stick to smite critics ( such as Vince Cable? )
(3) Before he was shackled to Hawley for eternity Smoot was more famous for his Mormonism and his abhorrence of bawdy books, a disgust that inspired the immortal headline “Smoot Smites Smut” after he attacked the importation of Lady’s Chatterley’s Lover, Robbie Burn’s more risqué poems and their like as “worse than opium … I would rather have a child of mine use opium than read these books.” But it was imports of another kind that secured Smoot and Hawley’s place in infamy.
(4) ‘Barack Obama and George W Bush rigged 2008’ Devil Smite (@redletterdave) facebook's promoting of fake news stories is getting out of hand.
(5) They're even less important when you've invented celestial Power Rangers which descend from the heavens and smite Sodom right up (this happens, pretty much).
(6) If all goes according to plan, those who have been "saved" by Jesus will rise into the air in the Rapture and look down as God smites billions of nonbelievers with a great earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet, and a bit of fire to boot.
(7) 'I could tell you the truth once you've taken the blow; if you smite me smartly I could spell out the facts of my house and home and my name, if it helps, then you'll pay me a visit and vouch for our pact.
(8) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
(9) He distances himself rather, though he does still need a reminder not to smite Earth's entirely smite-worthy inhabitants.
(10) The other side of using commissions and inquiries to smite your enemies is concocting them to legitimate your own political actions.
(11) In short, the Contempt of Court Act is circling over the media, waiting to smite those who go too far.
(12) One of his favourite words is "smite", as in someone (often a sportswriter) "having a smite" at him.
Somite
Definition:
(n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
(2) The PGCs were picked up with a fine glass pipette, and one hundred were then injected into the terminal sinuses of 2-day-old Japanese quail embryos (24 somites); bubbles were then inserted to prevent haemorrhage.
(3) The aim of this study is to test the ability of the intrinsic wing musculature to develop in the absence of somitic mesoderm.
(4) At the 10-somite stage, the rhythmical contraction is established and striated myofibrils become distinctly discernible.
(5) Our motility analyses of the chimaeras confirmed that transplanted thoracic somitic mesoderm gives rise to brachial musculature and that the experimental muscles maintained the inherent dystrophic phenotype.
(6) Metabolism studies demonstrated that the early somite embryo possesses a limited capacity to oxidatively metabolize B-OHB.
(7) Metabolic events in somites related to hyaluronic acid are not influenced by the notochord.
(8) In implants of either multiple rostral or caudal somite-halves, the grafted mesoderm dissociates normally into sclerotome and dermomyotome.
(9) Further spreading of the labelled cells to several somites in some cases was probably the result of a more extensive mixing of mesodermal cells among the somitomeres prior to somite segmentation.
(10) However, the hybrid populations tended to have significantly fewer somites and to be significantly larger than the parental populations at comparable stages of facial development.
(11) In the rat embryonic heart, the onset of spontaneous electrical activity and contraction occurs at the three-somite stage.
(12) Thus when the implant consisted of compound cranial half-somites, giant, coalesced ganglia developed, encompassing the entire length of the graft.
(13) Two normal-looking embryos were recovered on the 9th and 10th day (4-somite and ca.
(14) High levels were found in the primitive heart, hepatic diverticulum and septum transversum; lower levels were found in the early somites and other primitive mesenchymal derivatives and midgut endoderm.
(15) This adhesion is then supplemented by the development of tight junctions proximally in the somite.
(16) Our studies span the period between early somite stages and full term.
(17) In contrast, changes in the prevalence of N-CAM did not strictly accompany the remodeling of the somitic epithelium into dermamyotome and sclerotome.
(18) Subsequently, vimentin persists in the endoderm and mesoderm and the tissues derived therefrom, such as the somites and developing heart, throughout the period of study.
(19) myf-5 is the only myogenic factor sequence present in the somite prior to muscle formation and thus is potentially involved in an earlier step of muscle determination.
(20) Adjacent to the caudal half of each somite, these cells penetrated no further than the myosclerotomal border, but opposite the rostral somite half, they were found next to the sclerotome almost as far ventrally as the notochord.