Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
zoön .
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- noun Plural form of
zoon . - noun Plural form of
zoön . - noun Singular form of
protozoa .
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Examples
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The title Aoxomoxoa (explored later), is very possibly pronounced with the 'x' as an alliterative 'z', and thus "... zoa"; or Latin, for "life" ... as in
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We will concentrate on the animal portion of this group: the protozoa (proto = first, zoa = animals).
Protozoa 2008
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Scripture terms not men peculiarly captivated unto brutish affections, anthropous psuchikous, "natural men," but rather alogs zoa phusika, 2
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Healthy, well developed and active zoa-sperms from the _Vital
Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Civiale Remedial Agency
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The living beings (zoa) so often mentioned in St. John's Apocalypse can only be taken as parallel to those in Ezechiel, and their personal existence in St. John's mind cannot be doubted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The beasts of chap.iv. are (as we have seen) (...) (zoa), and are rendered by us as Zoa, and in the singular Zoon.
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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[1462] Plato said one. poteron o& 202; n orthos hena ouranou proeirekamen; e pollous e apeirous legein en orthoteron; eiper kata to paradeigma dedemiourgemenos estai, to gar periechon panta hoposa noeta zoa, meth 'heteron deuteron ouk an pot' eie ... heis hode monogenes ouranos gegonos esti te kai estai.
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-- Well, zur, zoa he did; and just as I wur looking about, it seems he had taen himself off wi'the money, vor when I looked round he wur no where to be zeen; and zoa zur, I have lost Fifty good Pounds to my sorrow.
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_ Noa, zur, I doant -- but little zweepy do tell I he can zee a bit out from the top of the chimbley -- zoa, an you've a mind to crawl up you may zee un too, he, he!
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801
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_ That's what I do want to know, zoa come along -- Woo ye though -- Missus, let's behave pratty -- Zur if you pleaze, Dame and I will let you walk along wi 'us.
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801
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