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A regular brick. A jolly good fellow. (Compare tetragwnoz anhr; “square”; and “four-square to all the winds that blow.”) “A fellow like nobody else, and, in fine, a brick.” —George Eliot:…Eliot, George
(Encyclopedia) Eliot, George, pseud. of Mary Ann or Marian Evans, 1819–80, English novelist, b. Arbury, Warwickshire. One of the great English novelists, she was reared in a strict atmosphere of…Daniel, book of the Bible
(Encyclopedia) Daniel, book of the Bible. It combines “court” tales, perhaps originating from the 6th cent. b.c., and a series of apocalyptic visions arising from the time of the Maccabean emergency…Susanna
(Encyclopedia) Susanna. 1 Heroine of a story told in the Book of Daniel, in a chapter (13) placed in the Apocrypha in the Authorized Version (see Daniel). Two elders attempt to seduce Susanna and are…Belteshazzar
(Encyclopedia) BelteshazzarBelteshazzarbĕltəshăzˈər [key], in the Book of Daniel, Babylonian name of the prophet Daniel.Daniel, persons in the Bible
(Encyclopedia) Daniel, in the Bible. 1 Prophet, central figure of the book of Daniel. 2 See Chileab. 3 Sealer of the covenant.Bel and the Dragon
(Encyclopedia) Bel and the Dragon, customary name for chapter 14 of the Book of Daniel, a passage included in the Septuagint and the Apocrypha. It was written possibly in the 1st cent. b.c. as a…Abed-nego
(Encyclopedia) Abed-negoAbed-negoəbĕdˈnēgō [key], in the Book of Daniel, one of the Three Young Men, educated with Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. With his three companions, Abed-…Isaacs, Rufus Daniel
(Encyclopedia) Isaacs, Rufus Daniel: see Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st marquess of.The Daniels
The filmmaking duo known as the Daniels is made up of Daniel Kwan (10 February 1988) and Daniel Sheinert (7 June 1987). Together their second feature film, Everything Everywhere All At Once, was…Trending
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