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- the name Porphyrius (clad in purple, an allusion to the color of imperial ... royalty often wore purple robes) and an allusion to the manufacture of purple ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- The process was named cold crucible, an allusion to the system of water cooling ... which was then named skull crucible (an allusion either to the shape of the ...11 KB (1,568 words) - 06:43, 11 January 2024
- Tibetan Buddhism overflowing with symbolism and allusion to Buddhist teachings and deities. The religious symbolism must be in accordance with strict ...6 KB (950 words) - 15:07, 30 April 2023
- Similarly, the allusion to a "Hezekiah" in the prophet& ... the reversal of creation. The allusion to the flood exists, but ...21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
- Greek word for a dog (kuon), in contemptuous allusion to the uncouth and aggressive manners adopted by the members of the school. Diogenes of ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- serially (e.g., Mark 12:20-22) may have been an allusion to this book’s story, with Tobit’s righteous son Tobias as Sarah’s ultimate husband. ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- The most obvious allusion is to Soviet "peaceful demonstrations," which were held several times a year all over the Soviet Union, but ...11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
- Latin for Yet it was not consumed, an allusion to the biblical story of the burning bush, and a stylized depiction of the burning bush is used ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- succeeding generations to reintroduce allusion and content without wandering directly into the dreaded arena of representation. Although Hesse ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- are they then baptized for the dead?," is an allusion to 2 Maccabees 12: 44, "for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- people despise it." His comments may be an allusion to the controversies that divided the mid-century Roman Christian communities: One of these ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- in the British Medical Journal, an obvious allusion to her healing powers. In a similar vein, Minerva Medica is the name of an Italian publisher ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 13:02, 31 May 2025
- The earliest allusion to engraving in the Bible may be the reference to Judah’s seal ring. (Ge 38:18), followed by (Ex 39.30). Engraving was ...11 KB (1,710 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- drought. Describing Mara thus is a literary allusion used by Buddhists to indicate his power and malevolence. Mara is also called Kanha ("the dark ...12 KB (1,939 words) - 11:40, 6 December 2024
- sources, was popular because it was 'an allusion to the birth on a feast day of the person named.’" March, 707. Conversely, it could ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- to others in motley imagery or quaint allusion, till the light of his genius shone into my soul, like the sun's rays glittering in the puddles ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- by their neighboring tribes, presumably as an allusion to the fast-paced technological evolution of Japan. Still, their traditional culture and ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- meaning"), Remez ("hint/allusion"), Derash ("interpretat ... surprising that Christians later found an allusion to their own doctrine of ...26 KB (4,149 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- worlds unto themselves. “Ukiyo†is an ironic allusion to the homophone "Sorrowful World" (憂ã世), the earthly plane of death and rebirth ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 01:28, 3 May 2023
- America, translated as Little Golden America (an allusion to The Little Golden Calf). The first edition of the book did not include Ilf's photographs ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:00, 28 November 2024
