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- noun Any of several
aquatic North American grasses , of the genusZizania , grown for itsedible grain ;wild rice
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Lollardi sunt zizania," &c. _Ibid. _, p. 232; of friars become peddlers, p. 264.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Whatever be meant by zizania word, found only here in the Greek
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Sed utrum inter zizania numerandi sint dubitari potest, magis autem videntur spicis corruptis esse similiores, vel paleis aristarum fractis, vel scissis et de segete abruptis: [2710] 1
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Sed sicut dicitur de zizaniis: Ne forte eradicantes zizania simul eradicetis et triticum, ita etiam super iis dici potest, in quibus vel dubia vel occulta peccata sunt ....
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Aphete ta zizania sunauxein tô sitô, toutestin en tê ekklêsia tous hamartanontas.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Ecclesia novitatibus mature obviam eant, easque tanquam zizania ex agro
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Et tamen, dum hi simulant pietatem, licet ex Ecclesia non sint, numerantur tamen in Ecclesia: sicuti proditores in republica, priusquam detegantur, numerantur et ipsi inter cives, et quemadmodum lolium vel zizania et palea inveniuntur in tritico, ant sicut strumae et tumores inveniuntur in integro corpore, cum revera morbi et deformitates sint verius corporis, quam membra vera.
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Proinde Ecclesia Dei recte comparatur sagenae, quae omnis generis pisces attrahit, et agro, in quo inveniuntur et zizania et triticum.
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There can be little doubt that the zizania of the parable,
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The darnel before it comes into ear is very similar in appearance to wheat; hence the command that the zizania should be left to the harvest, lest while men plucked up the tares "they should root up also the wheat with them."
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