Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Egyptian god of the sun, regarded during the reign of Akhenaten as the only god.
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- noun the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mention of the Aten is the cue for a re-creation (mercifully short).
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Apophis, a member of another group of near-Earth asteroids called the Aten group, was estimated to have a
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Those with orbits mostly interior to Earth's - called Aten asteroids - spend most of their time in the glare of the sun as seen from Earth, so telescopes have trouble spotting them.
Signs of the Times 2010
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Those with orbits mostly interior to Earth's - called Aten asteroids - spend most of their time in the glare of the sun as seen from Earth, so telescopes have trouble spotting them.
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Those with orbits mostly interior to Earth's - called Aten asteroids - spend most of their time in the glare of the sun as seen from Earth, so telescopes have trouble spotting them.
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When Amenhotep III dies, he is succeeded by his second son, Amenhotep IV - a bizarre visionary who turns away from Amun and the other gods of the state pantheon and worships instead a single deity known as the Aten, the disk of the sun.
Signs of the Times 2010
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"Aten" means literally the "Disk of the Sun," and though it is difficult to understand at this distance of time in what the difference between the worship of R [= a] and the worship of "R [= a] in his Disk" consisted, we may be certain that there must have been some subtle, theological distinction between them.
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He was complaining in a high, weak voice that on this, the one night of the year when they might meet, the gods, or the magic images of the gods who were put up for them to worship, should not include _his_ god, symbolized by the "Aten," or the sun's disc.
Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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"Aten" is probably the same as "Adon," the root of Adonis and Adonai, and has the signification of "Lord" -- a term implying personality, and when used specially of one Being, implying absolute mastery and lordship, an exclusive right to worship, homage, and devotion.
Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857
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While Egypt had traditionally been a polytheistic society, she persuaded him to worship the sun disc, Aten, and so he did.
How the Species Began Again, I Savannah Schroll Guz 2011
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