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noun
- (music) A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and is an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.
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proper noun
- a feminine given name
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abbreviation (infl, en, abbreviation)
- (biblical) An abbreviation used for the book(s) of Samuel in the Tanakh and the Old Testament of the Bible.
| | Samson |
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proper noun
- An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress
- (context, by extension) Any very strong man.
- An English surname.
| | Samuel |
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proper noun (book of the Bible, Books of Samuel)
- (given name, male)
- book(s) of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
- (biblical character) The primary author and central character of the first book of Samuel.
| | Sara |
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proper noun
- (given name, female, )
| | Sarah |
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proper noun
- (biblical character) Wife of Patriarch Abraham. Mother of Isaac.
- (given name, female, from Hebrew, )
| | Saul |
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proper noun
- (biblical) The first king of Israel, and the original name of Apostle Paul.
- (given name, male, ).
| | scapegoat |
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noun
- In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- 1646: alluding herein unto the heart of man and the precious bloud of our Saviour, who was typified by the Goat that was slain, and the scape-Goat in the Wilderness " Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
- Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
- He is making me a .
- 1834: Thomas Babington Macaulay, "William Pitt, Earl of Chatham" http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2332
- :The new Secretary of State had been long sick of the perfidy and levity of the First Lord of the Treasury, and began to fear that he might be made a to save the old intriguer who, imbecile as he seemed, never wanted dexterity where danger was to be avoided.
verb
- (transitive) To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
- :Don't me for your mistake.
- 1950: Rachel Davis DuBois?, Neighbors in Action: A Manual for Local Leaders in Intergroup Relations, p37
- :People tend to fear and then to ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.
- 1975: Richard M. Harris, Adam Kendon, Mary Ritchie Key, Organization of Behavior in Face-to-face Interaction, p66
- :They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to and blame some other category of people.
- 1992: George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5047
- :And I want to add, as we make these changes, we work together to improve this system, that our intention is not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
- 2004: Yvonne M. Agazarian, Systems-Centered Therapy for Groups, p208
- :Then either the world or others or the self becomes the target for the human tendency to .
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noun (scarlet women)
- A woman who is known for behaving in an adulterous manner.
- A woman believed to be an adulterer.
| | scorpion |
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noun
- Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a poisonous sting in the end.
| | Scripture |
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noun
- the Hebrew Tanakh
- the Old Testament, Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible.
- the Moslem Koran
- the Poetic Edda
- the religious text of a given religion
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initialism
- scanning electron microscope / scanning electron microscopy
| | Septuagint |
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proper noun
- An ancient translation of the Torah, Hebrew Bible into Greek, undertaken by Jews resident in Alexandria for the benefit of Jews who had forgotten their Hebrew (well before the birth of Jesus); abbreviated as LXX ("the seventy", for the reputed 70 scholars who did the work). The LXX is the untranslated standard version of the Old Testament for the Greek Orthodox Church, but not for the Western Church, which since Jerome, has adhered to the Masoretic text. In the original Greek New Testament, when Jesus quotes the Old Testament, he is made to quote the LXX, which tends to disagree with the Masoretic text.
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noun (pl=seraphs, pl2=seraphim)
- (context, Biblical) A six winged angel; the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God. A fine description is found at the beginning of http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28World_English%29/Isaiah
- Chapter_6 Isaiah chapter 6
| | serpent |
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noun
- A snake.
- (musici) A musical instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (w:Serpent (instrument), Wikipedia article).
| | Seth |
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proper noun
- (biblical) The third son of Adam and Eve.
- (given name, male).
| | Simon |
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proper noun
- (biblical character) Several persons in the New Testament, notably the original name of Apostle Peter.
- (given name, male, )
| | Sodom |
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noun
- a city in the Middle East destroyed in the Bible by the Hebrew God for the sins of its inhabitants.
| | Susanna |
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proper noun (book of the Bible, Susanna (Book of Daniel))
- (given name, female, , )
- (biblical) A follower of Jesus (Luke 8:3)
- (biblical) A book of the Apocrypha.
| | synoptic |
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adjective
- Of, or relating to a synopsis
- In general, pertaining to or affording an overall view. In meteorology, this term has become somewhat specialized in referring to the use of meteorological data obtained simultaneously over a wide area for presenting a comprehensive and nearly instantaneous picture of the state of the atmosphere. Thus, to a meteorologist, takes the additional connotation of simultaneity.
Synoptic
- Relating to the first three Gospels of the New Testament, being similar in style and content
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