Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of ancient Ephesus.
- adjective Of or relating to ancient Ephesus or its people, language, or culture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia on the coast of Asia Minor at the mouth of the river Caÿster, famous as the seat of a peculiar form of the worship of Artemis, for the legends of Amazons connected with this cultus, for the magnificent temple of Artemis (the Artemision or Artemisium, commonly called the temple of Diana), and as a large and important commercial city.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Ephesus: as, the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians.
- noun A boon companion; a jolly fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Ephesus, an ancient city of Ionia, in Asia Minor.
- noun A native of Ephesus.
- noun obsolete A jolly companion; a roisterer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, from, or pertaining to,
Ephesus - noun Someone from
Ephesus - noun obsolete A
jolly companion ; aroisterer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to ancient Ephesus or its people or language or culture
- noun a resident of the ancient Greek city of Ephesus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He afterwards wrote two heroic poems, one entitled the Ephesian
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Theophilus Cibber 1730
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We believe the Ephesian was a maker of silver images, though Alexander may have been actuated by a like motive in opposing Paul's proceedings as not good for trade.
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And yet, even at the climax, there is a bitter-sweet quality as Blakley as the wife of the Ephesian Antipholus and Michelle Terry as her sister sweep off in high dudgeon as they realise how they have been beguiled and tricked in the mistaken-identity confusion.
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What Cooke offers thereafter is an extended urban nightmare: one in which Lenny Henry's Syracusan Antipholus and Lucian Msamati as his browbeaten servant find themselves bewilderingly mistaken for their Ephesian twins.
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At a later point, Chris Jarman as the resident Ephesian Antipholus is pursued by paramedics who stumble out of a real ambulance and pinion him in a straitjacket.
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Do you think Paul's one liner statement in regards to Faith in Ephesian 2:8-9 trumps Jesus?
TEXAS FAITH: Why are millennials dropping out? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Having devastated the Ephesian pride by retelling their mournful history without Christ, Paul goes on to teach them one true thing: “...through [his] flesh, [Christ] abolish[ed] the law with its commandments and legal claims, that he might create in himself one new person in place of the two...”
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Having devastated the Ephesian pride by retelling their mournful history without Christ, Paul goes on to teach them one true thing: “...through [his] flesh, [Christ] abolish[ed] the law with its commandments and legal claims, that he might create in himself one new person in place of the two...”
Archive 2009-07-19 2009
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Paul commits the Ephesian elders to "God and the word of His grace" in Acts 20, not to prophets or ongoing revelation.
Bad Boy Bible Study James F. McGrath 2009
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Some pretty amazing things happen along the way that help her out, such as the ability to buy a field of barley, the discovery of valuable diamonds and an excommunicated Ephesian sister who has the remarkable gift of being able to see the future.
BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker 2008
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