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Ebionites
Language; Encyclopedias
A sect that in the 2nd century sought to combine Judaism and the hopes of Judaism with Christianity, and rejected the authority of St. Paul and of the Pauline writings; they denied the divinity of ...
Ebro
Language; Encyclopedias
A river of Spain, rises in the Cantabrian Mountains, flows SE. into the Mediterranean 80 m. SW. of Barcelona, after a course of 422 m.
Ecchymosis
Language; Encyclopedias
A discoloration of the skin produced by extravasated blood under or in the texture of the skin, the result of a blow or of disease.
Ebony
Language; Encyclopedias
A name given to Blackwood by James Hogg, and eventually applied to his magazine.
Elizabethan Era
Language; Encyclopedias
According to Carlyle, "the outcome and flowerage of all which had preceded it... in that old age lies the only true poetical literature of England. The poets of the last ago took to pedagogy (Pope ...
Elohist
Language; Encyclopedias
A name given by the critics to the presumed author of the earlier part of the Pentateuch, whose work in it they allege is distinguished by the use of the word Elohim for God; he is to be ...
Elohim
Language; Encyclopedias
A Hebrew word in the plural number, signifying God or one as God, but with a verb in the singular, signifying generally the one true God; according to the Talmud it denotes God as just in judgement ...
