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Poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XX, also called Βουκολίσκος ('The Young Countryman'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. A neatherd
Idyll_XX
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll X, sometimes called Θερισταί ('The Reapers') or Εργατίναι ('The Labourers'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The
Idyll_X
Bucolic poem by Theocritus
Idyll I, sometimes called Θύρσις ('Thyrsis'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus which takes the form of a dialogue between
Idyll_I
Poem
Idyll II, also called Φαρμακεύτριαι ('The Sorceresses'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, usually categorised with Idylls XIV and
Idyll_II
Idyll XI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared
Idyll_XI
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll III, also called Κώμος ('The Serenade'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poet appears to personate a young goatherd
Idyll_III
Bucolic poem by Theocritus
Idyll IV, also titled Νομεῖς ('The Herdsmen'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a conversation between a goatherd
Idyll_IV
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXVI, also titled Λῆναι ('The Bacchanals') or Βάκχαι ('The Bacchantes'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet
Idyll_XXVI
Ancient greek poem
Idyll XVII, also titled Εγκώμιον εις Πτολεμαίον ('The Panegyric of Ptolemy'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a panegyric
Idyll_XVII
Idyll VIII, also called Βουκολιασταί βʹ ('The Second Country Singing-Match'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The characters
Idyll_VIII
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XVIII, also titled Ἑλένης Ἐπιθάλαμιος ('The Epithalamy of Helen'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem includes a re-creation
Idyll_XVIII
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll XXIV, also called Ἡρακλίσκος (Heracliscus; 'The Little Heracles'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This poem describes the
Idyll_XXIV
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll VII, also called θαλύσια ('Harvest Home'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The dramatic persona, a poet, making his
Idyll_VII
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll XIII, sometimes called Ύλας ('Hylas'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. As in Idyll XI, Nicias is again addressed
Idyll_XIII
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXVII, also titled Οαριστύς ('The Lovers' Talk'), is a bucolic poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, but probably
Idyll_XXVII
Idyll XII, sometimes called Ἀίτης ('The Beloved' or 'The Passionate Friend'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Andrew Lang
Idyll_XII
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XIX, also titled Κηριοκλέπτης ('The Honey-Stealer'), is a poem doubtfully ascribed to the third-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Eros complains
Idyll_XIX
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll XXII, also called Διόσκουροι ('The Dioscuri'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. It is a hymn, in the Homeric manner, to Castor
Idyll_XXII
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll V, sometimes called Αιπολικόν και Ποιμενικόν ('The Goatherd and the Shepherd'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This
Idyll_V
Mime by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus
Idyll XV, also called "The Women at the Adonis-Festival" in English, is a mime by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This idyll describes the visit
Idyll_XV
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll IX, also titled Βουκολιασταί γʹ ('The Third Country Singing-Match'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Daphnis and
Idyll_IX
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll VI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 6, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. The exact date of its composition is unknown. It references
Idyll_VI
Idyll XIV, also called Κυνίσκας Ἔρως ('The Love of Cynisca') or Θυώνιχος ('Thyonichus'), is an 'urban mime' by the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus
Idyll_XIV
Ancient greek poem
Idyll XVI, also called Χάριτες ('The Charities') or Ἱέρων ('Hiero'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. In it the poet bewails the
Idyll_XVI
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXV, later titled Ηρακλής Λεοντοφόνος ('Heracles the Lion-slayer') by Callierges, is a poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet
Idyll_XXV
Poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXI, also called Ἁλιεῖς ('The Fisherman'), is a poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. After some verses addressed
Idyll_XXI
Poem doubtfully attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXIII, also called Εραστής ('The Lover'), is a poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. It tells how a lover hanged
Idyll_XXIII
1822 collection of ballads by Adam Mickiewicz
traditions of earlier literary genres popular in Poland such as duma, dumka and idyll. Ballads and Romances are deeply rooted in historical and local realities
Ballads_and_Romances
watching women burn the world". Retrieved 1 December 2021. "Reviews/ Film; An Idyll Shattered By Rape and Murder". The New York Times. 1 October 1993. Retrieved
List_of_erotic_thriller_films
PoIish writer and activist (1798–1855)
entirely in thirteen-syllable couplets. Originally intended as an apolitical idyll, it became, as Miłosz writes, "something unique in world literature, and
Adam_Mickiewicz
book by Gabriel Garca Marquez: a chilling drama of two boys' Mediterranean idyll shattered by darkness and death". The Independent. Retrieved 7 March 2024
Gabriel García Márquez bibliography
Gabriel_García_Márquez_bibliography
Poetry collection by Victor Hugo
Comète XVII. Changement d'horizon XVIII. Le Groupe des Idylles XIX. Tout le passé et tout l'avenir XX. Un poëte est un monde XXI. Le Temps présent (La Vérité
La_Légende_des_siècles
1908 novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole
favoured of Stacpoole's books because its appeal is universal. It is an idyll of childhood and youth amid tropical splendours which catch the heart by
The_Blue_Lagoon_(novel)
1914 composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams
with its imagery". Jeffrey Davis writes, "At one level it seems to be an idyll of rural England [but] in view of its composition on the eve of the First
The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)
The_Lark_Ascending_(Vaughan_Williams)
Thought and poetics of Alessandro Manzoni
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the idyll. Manzoni's writing denies any idyllic interpretation; it is not meant to be a search for serene
Alessandro Manzoni's thought and poetics
Alessandro_Manzoni's_thought_and_poetics
Divine hero in Greek mythology
the Bisexual Demigod". Advocate. Retrieved 6 February 2021. Theocritus, Idyll 13; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 1.1177–1357. Bernard, Sergent (1986)
Heracles
English author and journalist (1903–1950)
diaries are permeated with his observations on nature. Blair's adolescent idyll with Buddicom was shattered in the summer of 1921, when he attempted to
George_Orwell
French musical duo
"Heaven," their third video, was released in February 2018. It captures an idyllic outdoor scene amid a community of family and friends. In 2018, they performed
The_Blaze_(band)
King Arthur and order of chivalry in Arthurian romance
Morte d'Arthur, Book III, ch. IV, p. 83. Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XX, ch. VII, p. 880. Tether, Leah; Busby, Keith (2021). Rewriting Medieval French
Knights_of_the_Round_Table
1485 reworking of existing tales about King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson retold the legends in the poetry volume Idylls of the King (1859 and 1885). His work focuses on Le Morte d'Arthur and the
Le_Morte_d'Arthur
2018 Indian TV series or programme
Gauri Batra and Akash Batra run a homestay together. While all may seem idyllic in their beautiful guest house, things begin to unravel when a little girl
Damaged_(TV_series)
Aphrodite mourning over Adonis's body
of such a composition. This sculpture has had different names: Idylle (Idyll), Le Printemps (Spring), Le Printemps de la vie (The Spring of Life) and
The_Death_of_Adonis_(Rodin)
1952 novella by Ernest Hemingway
pp. 486–487; Schorer 1962, p. 134. Sylvester, Grimes & Hays 2018, pp. xix–xx. Baker 1988, p. 505; Reynolds 1999, p. 259. "New Hemingway sculpture idea
The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea
English writer and journalist (1812–1870)
formative years until the age of 11. His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he thought himself a "very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of
Charles_Dickens
Residential area in Andalusia, Spain
nephews Jaime Zóbel and Enrique Zóbel. The McMickings, having seen the idyllic coasts in 1962, acquired five neighboring farms with the idea of creating
Sotogrande
German arts magazine (1896–1940)
toward the end of the century, the shift in population from a romanticized, idyllic countryside to urban centers. As the early Arts and Crafts ambitions faded
Jugend_(magazine)
2002 film by Danny Boyle
Trafalgar Park near Salisbury. The old ruins used as the setting for an idyllic interlude in their journey to Manchester were those of Waverley Abbey,
28_Days_Later
Dravidian ethnic group
consisting of the Ettuttokai ("Eight Anthologies") and the Pattuppattu ("Ten Idylls"), and the Patinenkilkanakku ("Eighteen Lesser Texts"). The Tamil literature
Tamils
Austrian composer and conductor (1883–1945)
Preglhof" and in the tone poem Im Sommerwind (1904), both after Bruno Wille's idyll. In Webern's Sommerwind, Derrick Puffett found affinities with Strauss's
Anton_Webern
Single-stringed musical instrument
overwhelm Shrove Tuesday" (Serbskie skrzypki i dudy ostatek zagluszą). In the idyll named Śpiewacy, published in 1663, Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic used the phrase
Gusle
Centaur from Greek mythology
www.tertullian.org. Retrieved 2022-07-08. Apollodorus, 2.5.4 Theocritus, Idylls 7.149 Hyginus, De astronomia 2.38.1 ff Ovid, Fasti 5.391–396 Ovid, Fasti
Chiron
French artist (1848–1903)
impressions of Peru that haunted him the rest of his life". Gauguin's idyllic childhood ended abruptly when his family mentors fell from political power
Paul_Gauguin
1831 Scottish novel
language, Teufelsdröckh recalls at length the values instilled in his idyllic childhood, the Editor noting how most of his descriptions originate in
Sartor_Resartus
Greek island in the Aegean Sea
humanitarian aid. Forbes magazine, in 2009, named Patmos "Europe's most idyllic place to live", writing that "Patmos has evolved over the centuries but
Patmos
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
a more subdued palette of yellows and blues, which creates a sense of idyllic harmony. About 10 July 1890, Van Gogh wrote to Theo of "vast fields of
Vincent_van_Gogh
Figure in Greek mythology
of California Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780520280182. Scholium to Theocritus Idylls 15.40. Mulroy, D. (1994), Horace's Odes and Epodes, University of Michigan
Lamia
Largest city in Turkey
Retrieved 29 April 2012. Schillinger, Liesl (8 July 2011). "A Turkish Idyll Lost in Time". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2012. "Turkey's LGBT
Istanbul
French painter (1839–1906)
classical painting, which seeks to unite man and nature in harmony in Arcadian idylls. In the last seven years, he created three large-format versions of The
Paul_Cézanne
Events from the year 1884 in art. February 2 – First annual exhibition of Les XX opens at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Artists invited to show in
1884_in_art
Town and municipality in Vojvodina, Serbia
800 paintings. Kovačica's naïve painting is characterized by nostalgic, idyllic themes featuring life on the streets and in village yards, work in the
Kovačica
Ancient Greek goddess of love
is actually a comparatively late innovation. A scholion on Theocritus's Idylls remarks that the sixth-century BC poet Sappho had described Eros as the
Aphrodite
Conjecturally, the love potion described by Theocritus (3rd century BC), Idyll 2.58 as requiring ground up lizard may also refer to the salamander, according
Salamanders_in_folklore
English playwright, composer, actor (1899–1973)
West End. In 1912 Coward also appeared at the Savoy Theatre in An Autumn Idyll (as a dancer in the ballet) and at the London Coliseum in A Little Fowl
Noël_Coward
Lithuanian filmmaker and artist
what appears to be a biographical documentary. The film scenes are too idyllic and too recent for the traumatic World War II childhood that Watkins recollects;
Deimantas_Narkevičius
his position is abducted by unknown forces and taken to a mysterious, idyllic village in an undisclosed location, which is seemingly populated entirely
List of conspiracy-thriller films and television series
List_of_conspiracy-thriller_films_and_television_series
German playwright and poet (1898–1956)
Salonnière". Harper's Magazine. Ross, Alex (9 March 2020). "Exodus: The Haunted Idyll of Exiled German Novelists in Wartime Los Angeles". The New Yorker. pp. 38–43
Bertolt_Brecht
Work of classical Tamil literature
JSTOR 2053325. S2CID 144599197. George Hart & Hank Heifetz 2001, pp. xvii–xx. George Hart & Hank Heifetz 2001, pp. xvii–xviii. M. G. S. Narayanan (1982)
Purananuru
2017 studio album by Dua Lipa
leaving the Garden of Eden to describe a breakup and Lipa longing for the idyllic parts of a relationship. It sees the singer acting as a reflective girlfriend
Dua_Lipa_(album)
Ancient Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses
(4); Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.517. Larson, p. 173; Scholia on Theocritus, Idylls 7.76. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.4. Smith, s.v. Taras; Pausanias, 10.10.8. Homer
Poseidon
(The Odalisque, 1861), along with genre scenes or nudes set in landscapes (Idyll, 1868; Choice of a Model, 1870–1874; Nude Old Man in the Sun, 1871; Carmen
History_of_the_nude_in_art
Serbian football manager (born 1978)
Stanković: Naša porodična idila u Milanu" [Dejan and Ana Stankovic: Our family idyll is in Milan]. Hello! (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 2 March
Dejan_Stanković
Unsolved murders in New South Wales, Australia
1177/1037969X1504000406. ISSN 1037-969X. Rosser, Elise (2018). From Rural Idyll to Dystopian Nightmare:: Narratives of Child Death in 'Country' Australia
Bowraville_murders
Romanian writer and priest (1882–1963)
lover of stories and storytelling, was illiterate. Agârbiceanu recalled an idyllic childhood, with summers spent tending to his father's sheep and sleeping
Ion_Agârbiceanu
English author and poet (1858–1924)
that is also a kind of reënactment [sic] of the author’s own childhood: an idyll torn up at its roots by the exigencies of illness, loss, and grief." Towards
E._Nesbit
19th-century cultural movement
these figures allude to the Muses, dressed in vaporous veils and framed in idyllic landscapes, generally with a twilight setting. Eugène Carrière started
Symbolist_painting
Former country in South America
proclaimed by French and Swiss adventurers who migrated there upon reading idyllic descriptions made by pseudo-anarchist explorer Henri Coudreau — who mapped
Republic of Independent Guiana
Republic_of_Independent_Guiana
Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard favored soft daylight, delicate tones, and idyllic settings. In still life, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin stood out for his
Light_in_painting
15th-century English writer
political commentary of Malory's own era. Malory portrays an initially idyllic past under the strong leadership of King Arthur and his knights, but as
Thomas_Malory
contemporary countries, their situation in the Commonwealth was hardly idyllic. From the middle of the 14th century to the end of the 15th century, there
Antisemitism_in_Poland
Slovene poet, translator, and playwright
of his generation. In his masterpiece Duma from 1908, the visions of an idyllic rural life and natural beauty are mixed with implicit images of social
Oton_Župančič
English composer and music teacher
the final section, The Masque Imperial] 1876 – Evening on the Sea-Shore, idyll, Op.1 (St James's Hall, London, 25 November 1886) 1876–79 – In the Black
Frederick_Corder
Romanian-French writer
Nevertheless, much of the volume still adheres to lyricism and the conventional idyll format, primarily by identifying itself with the slow rhythms of country
Benjamin_Fondane
Chueca : una historia cultural de la homosexualidad en España en el siglo XX. Barcelona: Egales. ISBN 8495346656. Retrieved 11 June 2022. Cady, Joseph
List of gay novels prior to the Stonewall riots
List_of_gay_novels_prior_to_the_Stonewall_riots
King of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, 284–246 BC
in Egypt as a great victory, both in Greek poetry, such as Theocritus' Idyll 17 and by the Egyptian priesthood in the Pithom stele. Arsinoe Philotera
Ptolemy_II_Philadelphus
Regional unit in Greece
yet happy lives, to the point that Arcadia may refer to some imaginary idyllic paradise, immortalized by Virgil's Eclogues, and later by Jacopo Sannazaro
Arcadia_(regional_unit)
French diplomat and writer (1816–1882)
looked back nostalgically at an idealized version of the Middle Ages as an idyllic agrarian society living harmoniously in a rigid social order. He loathed
Arthur_de_Gobineau
View that life and existence are of negative value
133–152. doi:10.7358/rela-2015-002-toma. Horta, Oscar (2010). "Debunking the idyllic view of natural processes: Population dynamics and suffering in the wild"
Philosophical_pessimism
Italian composer (1567–1643)
the earliest examples of an operatic leitmotif. Act 1 presents a pastoral idyll, the buoyant mood of which continues into Act 2. The confusion and grief
Claudio_Monteverdi
Song cycle by Franz Schubert
little Brook, is this what you meant?" – the Brook leads the Miller to an idyllic mill in a forest grove. Through-composed, the piano imitates the vigorous
Die_schöne_Müllerin
American actress and film director
Visionary of the Cinema (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002): xx, xxvi. Motion Picture Studio Directory (1919): 204. Durward Howes, ed., "Weber
Lois_Weber
President of the Dominican Republic (1960–1961, 1966–1978, 1986–1996)
career. Other themes, despite the sorrow expressed, are mostly noble: and idyllic view of nature, nostalgia, and memoirs of the past. His total list of literary
Joaquín_Balaguer
1864–1865 novel by Charles Dickens
originally in love with Bella. He provides comic relief and a contrast with the idyllic relationship between Bella and Rokesmith/Harmon. Mr Melvin Twemlow – the
Our_Mutual_Friend
Occultist, painter, writer (1867–1953)
of muted, cool colours and pastel shades to emphasise the intellectual idyll of Plato's Akademos. Delville very seldom painted landscapes, still life
Jean_Delville
bridges, and other picturesque architecture, designed to recreate an idyllic pastoral landscape. The English garden was centred on the English country
Culture_of_England
Dwarf avatar of Vishnu
publisher location (link) "Pattupattu Ten Tamil Idylls Chelliah J. V." "Pattupattu Ten Tamil Idylls Chelliah J. V." PV Kane (1958). History of Dharmasastra
Vamana
Serbian artist (1851–1907)
Serbia, Krstić moved his style of painting from a realist tone to a more idyllic one, with paintings such as Kosovo Field Landscape, From the Surroundings
Đorđe_Krstić
Collection of character sketches
of Pennsylvania, in the early days of the United States, depicted as an idyllic enclave before the community was destroyed in an attack by a hostile Indian
The_Spirit_of_the_Age
Supplement: Writers on Writers (Fall 2006) Wild Nights! (2008) "A Princeton Idyll" short story The Yale Review (October 2006) Dear Husband (2009) "Landfill"
Joyce Carol Oates short fiction bibliography
Joyce_Carol_Oates_short_fiction_bibliography
19th and 20th century dispute about popular and learned language varieties of Greek
work was largely in Demotic; and the poems of Drossinis' next collection, Idylls (1884), are almost all on themes from folklore, informed by the laografia
Greek_language_question
Brass instrument related to tubas and French horns
English Dictionary (11th edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008. xx+1,708 pp., ISBN: 0 19 860864 0 £20.00 $29.95". Reference Reviews. 19 (1):
Wagner_tuba
IDYLL XX
IDYLL XX
Male
Egyptian
, a king of the XXVIth dynasty.
Male
Egyptian
, the first king of the XXIst dynasty.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Idle.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Idl, a pet form of Jude.Possibly a respelling of German Eitel.
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word fay, from Old English faie, FAY means "fairy." This name was in use in the 19th century when an interest in medieval times and Arthurian legends--brought about mostly by Tennyson's Idylls of the King--led to the use of such names as Fay and Morgan, Percival, and Tristan.Â
Male
Egyptian
, a XXVth dynasty king.
Female
Egyptian
, a XXVIth dynasty Egyptian lady.
Male
Egyptian
, a king of the XXIXth dynasty called Achoris by the Greeks.
Girl/Female
American, British, English, German
Prosperous; Happy; Hardworking
Male
Egyptian
, a king of the XXIVth dynasty.
Female
Egyptian
, a royal lady of the XXVIth dynasty.
Male
Egyptian
, a monarch of the XXIst dynasty.
Female
Egyptian
, the mother of one of the last kings of the XXth dynasty.
Male
Egyptian
, a XXIst dynasty king.
IDYLL XX
IDYLL XX
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil
New Shine
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
Lord Rama; Lord Vishnu; The Preserver
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Sunshine
Boy/Male
Tamil
A cavalier, A Hindu month, Medical God
Girl/Female
Assamese, Bengali, Danish, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Rock
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, derived from the Norman personal name Mainard, MAYNARD means "strong and hardy."
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Glittering Flower
Male
French
A derivative of Anglo-Norman French Jehan, JEAN means "God is gracious." Compare with feminine Jean.
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
God Kannan
Girl/Female
Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Muslim, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Loving; Well Loved; Night
IDYLL XX
IDYLL XX
IDYLL XX
IDYLL XX
IDYLL XX
n.
A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.
n.
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
n.
A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.
n.
One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.
n.
A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
n.
A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.
a.
Of or belonging to idyls.
n.
A symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX.
v. t.
Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).
n.
A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.