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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An element in words of Greek origin, meaning ‘second.’

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  • Where moralistic views preponderated as in Hermas and 2 Clement good works were already valued in detail, prayers, fasts, alms appeared separately, and there was already introduced especially under the influence of the so-called deutero-canonical writings of the Old Testament the idea of a special meritoriousness of certain performances in fasts and alms (see 2

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • A deutero-Pauline text assures us on divine authority that all Cretans are liars.

    For John Shelby Spong the listening process is over « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • I followed that link about deutero-Isaiah and it wasn't clear to me that any of the I AM statements were being portrayed as the words of Isaiah himself.

    Did Jesus Claim To Be God? James F. McGrath 2009

  • I think deutero-octane, as you sort of suggested, would very much be a nonstarter because of the energy involved.

    Why peer reviewed publication is not enough « Climate Audit 2006

  • Similarly, the unity cannot be nailed down by an Aristotelian secondary substance deutero ousia or essence.

    Not Three Gods 2005

  • Similarly, the unity cannot be nailed down by an Aristotelian secondary substance deutero ousia or essence.

    Archive 2005-01-01 2005

  • The interesting Page 5 observation was that even when the diet was very deficient in fat, with a total caloric intake less than adequate for health, and the animal was forced to draw upon its fat reserves, the deutero-fat CONTINUED TO BE STORED and NOT PUT TO IMMEDIATE USE.

    An Excellent Man Bayley, John 1986

  • That those books annexed by the Papists to the Old Testament, and called by them "deutero-canonical," and by us no better still than

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • This deutero-canonical book of the Old Testament is placed by the LXX. between _Jeremiah_ and _Lamentations_, and in the Vulgate after

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • In the fourth he gives a summary of the Christian faith, and reckons up the canonical books of scripture, in which he omits the Apocalypse, and some of the deutero-canonical books, though he quotes these in other places as God's word.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

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