Англо-русский синонимический словарь. 2014.
List of Biblical names — This is a list of names from the Bible, mainly taken from the 19th century public domain resource: : Hitchcock s New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible by Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869.Each name is given with its … Wikipedia
excessive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. immoderate, inordinate, extravagant, exorbitant, unreasonable, outrageous; superfluous, extreme. See dearness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. immoderate, inordinate, extreme, extravagant, exorbitant,… … English dictionary for students
Pilgrimages — • Journeys made to some place with the purpose of venerating it, or in order to ask there for supernatural aid, or to discharge some religious obligation. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Pilgrimages Pilgrimages … Catholic encyclopedia
United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium
ETHICS — IN THE BIBLE There is no abstract, comprehensive concept in the Bible which parallels the modern concept of ethics. The term musar designates ethics in later Hebrew, but in the Bible it indicates merely the educational function fulfilled by the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Egotism — E go*tism (?; 277), n. [L. ego I + ending tism for ism, prob. influenced by other English words in tism fr. the Greek, where t is not part of the ending, as baptism. See {Egoism}.] The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
JEZEBEL — (Heb. אִיזֶבֶל, perhaps from זבל, the exalted one with the prefix (i;) meaning Where is the Exalted One / Prince? (cf. Ichabod, Where is the Divine Presence?). Another possibility is The Prince Lives, by assimilation from ʾš zbl > yzbl >… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, country in N. America. This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction Colonial Era, 1654–1776 Early National Period, 1776–1820 German Jewish Period, 1820–1880 East European Jewish Period,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
