af-ter
(aftr)prep. 1. Behind in place or order: Z comes after Y. Next to or lower than in order or importance. 2. In quest or pursuit of: seek after fame; go after big money. 3. Concerning: asked after you. 4. Subsequent in time to; at a later time than: come after dinner. 5. Subsequent to and because of or regardless of: They are still friends after all their differences. 6. Following continually: year after year. 7. In the style of or in imitation of: satires after Horace. 8. With the same or close to the same name as; in honor or commemoration of: named after her mother. 9. According to the nature or desires of; in conformity to: a tenor after my own heart. 10. Past the hour of: five minutes after three.adv. 1. Behind; in the rear. 2. At a later or subsequent time; afterward: three hours after; departed shortly after.adj. 1. Subsequent in time or place; later; following: in after years. 2. Nautical. Nearer the stern of a vessel.conj. Following or subsequent to the time that: I saw them after I arrived.n. Afternoon.[Middle English, from Old English aefter. See apo-.]
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man-ner
(manr)n. 1. A way of doing something or the way in which a thing is done or happens. See Synonyms at method. 2. A way of acting; bearing or behavior. See Synonyms at bearing. 3. manners The socially correct way of acting; etiquette. The prevailing customs, social conduct, and norms of a specific society, period, or group, especially as the subject of a literary work. 4. Practice, style, execution, or method in the arts: This fresco is typical of the painter's early manner. 5. Kind; sort: What manner of person is she? Kinds; sorts: saw all manner of people at the mall. --idiom. in a manner of speaking. In a way; so to speak. to the manner born. Accustomed to a position, custom, or lifestyle from or as if from birth.[Middle English manere, from Old French maniere, from feminine of manier, handmade, skillful, from Vulgar Latin *manuarius, convenient, handy, from Latin, of the hand, from manus, hand. See man-2.]
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whelp
(hwelp, welp)n. 1. A young offspring of a mammal, such as a dog or wolf. 2. A child; a youth. An impudent young fellow. See Usage Note at adage. 3. A tooth of a sprocket wheel. Nautical. Any of the ridges on the barrel of a windlass or capstan.v. whelped, whelp-ing, whelps.v. intr. To give birth to whelps or a whelp.v. tr. To give birth to (whelps or a whelp).[Middle English, from Old English hwelp.]
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noi-some
(noism)adj. 1. Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul: a noisome odor. 2. Harmful or dangerous: noisome fumes.[Middle English noiesom : noie, harm (short for anoi, annoyance, from Old French, from anoier, to annoy. See ANNOY) + -som, adj. suff. See -SOME1.]--noi'some-ly adv. --noi'some-ness n.
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trib-ute
(tribyoot)n. 1. A gift, payment, declaration, or other acknowledgment of gratitude, respect, or admiration: put up a plaque as a tribute to his generosity. 2. Evidence attesting to some praiseworthy quality or characteristic: Her home is a tribute to her good taste. 3. A payment in money or other valuables made by one ruler or nation to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of protection or security. A tax imposed for such payment. 4. Any payment exacted for protection. 5. A payment or tax given by a feudal vassal to an overlord. The obligation to make such a payment.[Middle English tribut, from Old French, from Latin tributum, from neuter past participle of tribuere, to pay, distribute, from tribus, tribe. See TRIBE
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compass
verb
com·pass | \ ˈkəm-pəs also ˈkäm- \compassed; compassing; compasses
Definition of compass (Entry 1 of 3)transitive verb
1: to devise or contrive often with craft or skill : PLOT " … persons … who have compassed my destruction … "
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Charles Dickens
2: ENCOMPASS a lake compassed by mountains
3a: BRING ABOUT, ACHIEVE … none can compass more than they intend …
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Alexander Pope
b: to get into one's possession or power : OBTAIN He compassed a vast estate.
4: COMPREHEND
could not compass the seriousness of the problem compass noun
Definition of compass (Entry 2 of 3)
1a: BOUNDARY, CIRCUMFERENCE
within the compass of the city walls
b: a circumscribed space
crammed into a narrow compass
c: RANGE, SCOPE
the compass of my voice
Merriam-webster dictionary
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Ur, Sumerian:
Urim; Sumerian Cuneiform: URI5KI, URIM2KI or URIM5KI;[2] Akkadian: Uru;[3] Arabic: أور; Hebrew: אור) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: تل المقير) in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.
Although Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the city is now well inland, on the south bank of the Euphrates, 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) from Nasiriyah in modern-day Iraq.[5]
The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a city-state from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesannepada. The city's patron deity was Nanna (in Akkadian, Sin), the Sumerian and Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name. UNUGKI, literally "the abode (UNUG) of Nanna".[5]
The site is marked by the partially restored ruins of the Ziggurat of Ur, which contained the shrine of Nanna, excavated in the 1930s. The temple was built in the 21st century BC (short chronology), during the reign of Ur-Nammu and was reconstructed in the 6th century BC by Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon. The ruins cover an area of 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) northwest to southeast by 800 metres (2,600 ft) northeast to southwest and rise up to about 20 metres (66 ft) above the present plain level.[6]
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Noah,
saying,
This same
*
the same became
mighty men
which were of old,
*
the Lord hath cursed.
*
The Lord God Noah linage springs from, And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth:, And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Japheth the Hittite is not the biological son of Noah. “And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
Noah, the biological father of Ham born of Shem his wife daughter, And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. Japheth, is not as ham.
in the image
of
God
created
he
Ham;
male
and female
created
he
Noah and Shem.
And the sons
of
Noah,
that went forth
of the ark,
*
And the evening
and the morning
were the
first day.
*
were Shem,
and Ham,
and Japheth:
and Ham is the father
of
Canaan.
These are the three sons
of
Noah:
*
And God blessed them,
and God
said unto them,
Be fruitful,
and multiply,
and replenish the earth,
and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish
of the
sea,
and over the fowl
of the air,
and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth.
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and of them was
the
whole earth overspread.
rooms shalt thou make
in
the ark,
and shalt pitch it within
and without with pitch.
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Pitch
A steep downward slope. The degree of such a slope. 6. Architecture. The angle of a roof. The highest point of a structure: the pitch of an arch. 7. A level or degree, as of intensity: worked at a feverish pitch..
from American Heritage Talking Dictionary
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And Noah began
to be
an husbandman,
*
and the darkness
he
called Night.
And the evening
and the morning
were
the first day.
*
and
he
planted a vineyard:
*
And Ham,
the
father
of
Canaan,
saw the nakedness
of
his father,
*
Lamech
*
and told
his
two brethren without.
*
And Lamech took
unto him
two wives:
the name
of the
one was
Adah,
Jabal:
he
as
dwell
tents,
and
of
such as have cattle.
And his brother's name was
Jubal:
he
was the father
of
all such as handle the harp
and organ.
*
And His earth
was
without form,
*
And
the
Lord God
formed man
of the
dust of the ground,
. . . and man became a living soul.
*
So shall my word be that goeth forth
out of
my mouth:
it
shall not return unto me
void,
*
was the father of such
as
dwell
in
tents,
*
and void;
*
and he was
uncovered within
his tent.
*
He
taketh away the heart
of the
chief of the people
of the
earth,
and causeth them
to wander
in
a wilderness where there
is
no way.
They grope
in the dark
without light,
and
he
maketh them to stagger like
a
drunken man.
*
and was drunken;
*
and he
was
uncovered within
his tent.
*
And he laid
it
upon my mouth,
and said,
Lo,
this hath touched thy lips;
and thine inequity
is
taken away,
and thy
sin
purged.
Also
I
heard the voice
of the
Lord,
saying,
Whom shall
I
send,
and who
will go
for us?
Then said
I,
Here
am I;
send me.
And he said,
Go,
and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed,
but understand not;
and see ye indeed,
but perceive not.
Make the heart
of
this people fat,
and make their ears heavy,
and shut their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
and convert,
and be healed.
Then said
I,
Lord,
how long?
And he answered,
Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant,
and the houses without man,
and the land be utterly desolate,
*
And Shem and Japheth
took a garment,
and laid
it
*
the name
of the
one was
Adah,
and the name
of the
other Zillah.
*
and
she
conceived,
and bare Cain,
and said,
I
have gotten
a
man
from
the
Lord.
*
upon
both their
shoulders,
and went backward,
and covered
the
nakedness
of
their father;
*
Ah sinful nation,
a people laden with inequity,
a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters:
they have forsaken the Lord,
they have provoked
the
Holy One
of
Israel unto anger,
they
are gone away backward.
*
and their faces
were backward,
and they
saw not
their father's
nakedness.
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