How To Use Corinthian In A Sentence
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I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
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The temple of the +Olympian Zeus+ at Athens (Fig. 39), a mighty dipteral Corinthian edifice measuring 354 by 171 feet, standing on a vast terrace or temenos surrounded by a buttressed wall, was begun by Antiochus Epiphanes (170 B.C.) on the site of an earlier unfinished
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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The Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
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Ionic, and 6. corinthian, we imported for our first buildings. and altho, being for the University, we did not think duties demandable at all, yet these being of 15. p.c. only at that time, and amounting to but 305.
Letters to and from Jefferson, 1825
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The architectural ornament is of that easy and delectable kind which mimics nature: the acanthus leaves of Corinthian capitals, garlands and trophies in the manner of Wren and Grinling Gibbons.
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A stroll through the California State Capitol (10th and L Streets; 916-324-0333; www. capitolmuseum.ca.gov) - a neo-Classical confection of Corinthian and other classic columns, parget plasterwork and mosaic floors - makes everything feel like it's in grand order.
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Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
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Whilst they were debating these points, the Lacedaemonians had incorporated the men of Tegea and the men of Mantinea, and were ready to debouch into the bimarine region. 256 And as the two armies advanced almost at the same time, the Corinthians and the rest reached the Nemea,257 and the Lacedaemonians and their allies occupied Sicyon.
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The epistle is 2 Corinthians 6. 1-10 and the Gospel Matthew 4.
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It does, however, seem probable that Luke has to some extent glozed over the asperity of the controversies within the Church, notably the opposition to Paul and his views as described by Paul himself in Galatians and II Corinthians, in his attempt to emphasise the fundamental unity of the early Church.
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In the same excavations on Temple Hill, Robinson found a second example of a similar Archaic sacrificial calendar incised, boustrophedon, in the epichoric Corinthian alphabet, this time on a fragmentary lead tablet.
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It was in a particular manner noted for fornication, insomuch that a Corinthian woman was a proverbial phrase for a strumpet, and korinthiazein, korinthiasesthai -- to play the Corinthian, is to play the whore, or indulge whorish inclinations.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The bell tower is pointed with four miniature spires and the paired Corinthian columns and the flanking pilasters on either side of the altar are a distinctive feature.
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My friend was an English major back in the day, and the ceremony was filled with extended readings — some in Middle English — from First Samuel and First Corinthians, Plato, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and William Meredith, as well as traditional and popular music from when the two of them were young.
A wedding like any other
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The order is Corinthian and the capitals and bases are of white Pentelic marble.
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And you end up with Greek manuscripts with these verses in different places in I Corinthians 14.
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Medieval and modern writers wrongly take it for granted that the charism existed permanently at Corinth — as it did nowhere else — and that St. Paul, in commending the gift to the Corinthians, therewith gave his guaranty that the characteristics of Corinthian glossolaly were those of the gift itself.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Alberti was particularly interested in Vitruvius' use of columns (Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian) and arches to express social status and power.
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Corinthian columns have bases, which Doric columns have not, "and notes that the word"'unshaken' implies that the column itself had fallen, but the base remains.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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A high domed roof and Ionic-Corinthian pillars give the General Post Office in Kolkata an imposing appearance.
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Sufetula was built one hundred and fifty miles to the south of Carthage: a gentle declivity is watered by a running stream, and shaded by a grove of juniper-trees; and, in the ruins of a triumpha arch, a portico, and three temples of the Corinthian order, curiosity may yet admire the magnificence of the Romans.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Work out for yourself the differences between Corinthian, Ionic and Doric orders.
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While the Greeks had used the Corinthian capital with an Ionic entablature, the Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
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Also, Corinthian's goalkeeper Charlie Henderson joins the 21-man party departing for Brussels who, along with John Jermyn, are the only two uncapped players.
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Charnock then came at Corinthians and after a miskick in the penalty area the ball was smashed into the net to make the game all square at half time.
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Andrians and Corinthians, and the decree for the mutilation of the captives, of which Philokles was the author.] [Footnote 149: Golden crowns, at this period of Greek history, was the name applied to large sums of money voted by cities to men whose favour they hoped to gain.] [Footnote 150: A spit is called obelus in Greek.] [Footnote 151: Probably of each of the Spartan admirals who had commanded during the war.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
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This Corinthian helmet, currently on display at the Manchester Museum, would do nicely.
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The image is of an adult-size Corinthian crestless helmet which can be used for display or re-enactment purposes.
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The Corinthian order is also very feminine in nature, characterised primarily by its ornate capitals, which sport two rows of sculpted acanthus leaves with small volutes spiral scrolls in the corners.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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The diesinker had to translate a drawing – it might be for a candlestick in the form of a Corinthian column – into three dimensions, in reverse, chiseling it into hard steel and then smoothing it with emery cloth.
Amid the jumble, the story of Britain's age of silver
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Also, it turned out that it was not a distylos in antis (two columns set between projecting side walls), but a tetrastyle prostylos (four columns set in front of the cella) shrine built in the Corinthian order.
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The Corinthian is another, and The Masqueraders offers a bonus boy dressed as a girl.
My Favorite Girls Dressed as Boys - Romance Edition
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But here he was, seated next to the Queen of England, amid Corinthian columns and gold-enriched pilasters, before a red velvet throne used for the coronation of King Edward VII.
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First Corinthians 6: 9-10, ‘Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?’
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In order to place the third and fourth aedicule gables as well as the central shell (concha), stone carvers Sinan Ilhan and Eva Leplat worked at a frantic pace to complete the corresponding Corinthian capitals.
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Corinthians seized66 on the heights of Geraneia, and thence made a descent with their allies into the Megarian territory, thinking that the Athenians, who had so large a force absent in Aegina and in Egypt, would be unable to assist the Megarians; or, if they did; would be obliged to raise the siege of Aegina.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The interior is divided into nave and aisles by Corinthian columns with high dosserets that rise to pointed arches.
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Corinth, the Corinthians having received certain intelligence by their spies that he with a numerous army in battle-rank was coming against them, were all of them, not without cause, most terribly afraid; and therefore were not neglective of their duty in doing their best endeavours to put themselves in a fit posture to resist his hostile approach and defend their own city.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The monument is constructed of pure white marble and features majestic stairways, tall Corinthian columns, fountains, a huge equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel, two statues of vicotry goddesses riding on quadrigas four horse chariots, and a tomb to an unknown soldier.
Rome With A View at eternallycool.net
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The Corinthian order appears here complete with its modillion cornice, but the crispness of the detail and the fineness of the execution are Greek and not Roman.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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Modelled on St. Peter's basilica in Rome, its façade is defined by Corinthian pilasters and a pediment, with a great central dome towering over them.
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The Corinthians are not in the privileged position of judges between theological niceties.
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Bruno Schmitz 'design shows a rich mosaic base supporting an Ionic portico, from the middle of which a six column Corinthian "pronaos" projects, which no doubt would have produced a magnificent effect in the streets of Rome.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884
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The metro system is the main transport link connecting the Corinthians stadium to the city centre, making the opening match highly vulnerable to transport strikes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Corinthian, which is based in Santa Ana, Calif., offers entry-level associate and certificate programs, and its students often have high debt levels.
Corinthian Colleges CEO Resigns
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The landlord, an old sportsman and ringsider, ran out to greet so well-known a Corinthian as Sir Charles Tregellis.
Rodney stone
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The stater was a unit of currency; probably in this case the Corinthian stater, almost equal to two Attic drachmas; see Appendix J, Classical Greek Currency, ©4.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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Ionic and Corinthian monuments, however, as well as minor works such as steles, altars, etc., were richly adorned with carved mouldings and friezes, festoons, acroteria, and other embellishments executed with the chisel.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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Though rectangular in form, an Ionic colonnade (rather than Corinthian, as in Washington) that contained a gallery for spectators threw the northern end of the room into a semi-elliptical figure.
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Professor Alan Marquand, whose voice in matters of Greek archæology is second in authority to none, is even of opinion that the Corinthian capital is of lotus derivation.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Our stone carvers Sinan Ilhan and Eva Leplat, assisted by Mehmet Özkavak, continued to carve missing elements of some of the Corinthian capitals and bead-and-reel decorations of the completely new second archivolt.
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Corinthian columns, composed either of the Doric proportions or according to the Ionic usages; for the Corinthian order never had any scheme peculiar to itself for its cornices or other ornaments, but may have mutules in the coronae and guttae on the architraves according to the triglyph system of the Doric style, or, according to Ionic practices, it may be arranged with a frieze adorned with sculptures and accompanied with dentils and coronae.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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The only things I hope we don't revisit from the 1970's are disco, polyester leisure suits and the Chrylser Cordoba ( "with fine rich Corinthian leather").
January 2006
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But the Corinthian women's thunderstruck responses to their sister's havoc is an element integral to the play, a brake which slows and accentuates the impending tragedy.
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A small branch that is pierced by a pair of garden shears and sits atop a classicized wall bracket with Corinthian details suggests a large-winged bird that has just landed.
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Paul's great ‘hymn to love’ in 1 Corinthians exalts love as ‘a still more excellent way.’
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The word charismatic is derived from the Greek word charis (meaning a grace or a gift) which is the term used in the Bible to describe a wide range of supernatural experiences (especially in 1 Corinthians 12-14).
Charismatic?
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Brass -- composition and uses -- Corinthian brass composed of gold, silver and tin -- (Encyclopædia) -- electrical amalgam, voltaic plates, pinchbec, prince's metal, tombac.
Outlines of the Lectures on Chemistry, Mineralogy, & Geology, Delivered at the University of North-Carolina, for the Use of the Students. [1]-44 p.
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Thus the admonition in I Corinthians 7, where the children are sanctified by at least one believing parent - else they would be unholy, or, in other words, unconsecrated.
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'_The Corinthian_,' another snarling watch-dog in the courts of the temple of Fame, followed instinctively the same injurious wake: it was a leisurely sarcastic anatomization, quite enough to blight any young candidate's prospects, supposing that mankind respected such a verdict; if not to make him cut his throat, granting that the victim should be sensitive as Keats.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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The first reading is from Corinthians I, Chapter 3.
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Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
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On the right wing of the Corinthians were the Megarian and Ambraciot ships, in the centre the contingents of their other allies; they themselves with their swiftest vessels formed the left wing, which was opposed to the Athenians and to the right division of the Corcyraeans.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The bell tower is pointed with four miniature spires and the paired Corinthian columns and the flanking pilasters on either side of the altar are a distinctive feature.
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Modelled on St. Peter's basilica in Rome, its façade is defined by Corinthian pilasters and a pediment, with a great central dome towering over them.
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On the South wall, tinder an atrb fupported by two black marble Corinthian pillars, is a Lady kneeling before a dejk, with a book lying open upon it, and over her head checquy P.S. atg. and foible, crejl a cockatrice, over one of the pillars H.
A description of that admirable structure, the cathedral church of Salisbury. : With the chapels, monuments, grave-stones, and their inscriptions. To which is prefixed an account of Old Sarum.
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The only other pieces close in date to it are two composite capitals (also from the mid-10th century) in the third room, one labeled ‘Corinthian’ for some reason, although Ionic volutes are just as prominent as acanthus leaves.
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Father Bacchus at Teos, a monopteral; Arcesius, on the Corinthian proportions, and on the Ionic temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands; on the Mausoleum, Satyrus and
The Ten Books on Architecture
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True, the same power which in the purer age of art embodies gods and heroes only, may be made to express the voluptuous image of a Corinthian courtezan.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
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There are five different styles of cavaedium, termed according to their construction as follows: Tuscan, Corinthian, tetrastyle, displuviate, and testudinate.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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These columns are of different orders on each storey (Tuscan at the bottom, then Ionic, with Corinthian columns in the third storey).
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Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.
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A Corinthian aryballos showing a swan between two roosters (Ministry of Culture, Hellenic Republic of Greece) [LARGERIMAGE]
Corinth Antiquities Returned
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An armed figure with Corinthian helmet, cuirass, and greaves, and holding a spear and round shield, runs with a very wide stride behind each chariot.
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Kiwi Brent Pope arrived here in 1991, well ahead of professionalism, but at that time the game - particularly in the Southern Hemisphere - had more to do with ‘shamateurism’ than any Corinthian ideal.
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The capitals of the columns, entablature, cornice, and pediment are decorated with acanthus leaves and bouquets and geometrical mouldings in high Corinthian style.
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Charnock then came at Corinthians and after a miskick in the penalty area the ball was smashed into the net to make the game all square at half time.
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Epistle to the Corinthians the arrangement of Divine Providence in the reconciliation of sinners: “God,” he says, “hath reconciled us to Himself through Christ, _and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation_ ....
The Faith of Our Fathers
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It was built in a style that would not be out of place in Rome or Athens: the ruins had porticoed and pedimented fronts, and were supported by carved Corinthian pillars.
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Fragments such as cornices, frames, pilaster bases, and Corinthian pilaster capitals bore reliefs.
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Seemingly every room inside has faux Corinthian columns and ceiling frescoes.
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Its monumental entrance, in the form of an amphiprostyle Corinthian portico, was in the southeast corner.
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But it boasted green marble dadoes, Corinthian columns of cast iron painted gold, and garlands of gilded fruit on the walls; the pineapples particularly, thought Guy Francon, had stood the test of years very well.
The Fountainhead
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It may sound unfashionably Corinthian but sport's best lesson to young people is control and grace under duress.
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There are five different styles of cavaedium, termed according to their construction as follows: Tuscan, Corinthian, tetrastyle, displuviate, and testudinate.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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Corinthian vase-painters use more colour, and on plaques approximate to the manner of panel painters.
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Magnificent Greek Doric temples abounded in the latter and a full spectrum of Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian style was allowed to flourish on the Aegian coast.
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In ancient Greek, there were three main styles in architecture, they are: The Doric style, the Ionic style and the Corinthian style.
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Arch; pediment; Ionic, Doric and Corinthian columns; ornamental motifs such as dentils and scrolls; and types of roofs such as mansard, pyramidal, domed and gabled.
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What today purports to be the "gift of tongues" at certain Protestant revivals is a fair reproduction of Corinthian glossolaly, and shows the need there was in the primitive Church of the Apostle's counsel to do all things
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Neighbors in Corinthian Point have held a prayer group for Marcus
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Ricardo Montalbán, a Mexican-born actor who starred in Hollywood dramas and candy-colored musicals in the 1940s and '50s and was perhaps best known as the debonair host of the TV drama Fantasy Island and as pitchman for the "soft Corinthian leather" of the Chrysler Cordoba, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure.
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The Corinthians, not the Spartans, felt most threatened by Athenian alliances and expansion during the late 460s and 450s, for they removed all northern counterweights to Athenian power.
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Corinthian and tetrastyle oeci, as well as those termed Egyptian, should have the same symmetrical proportions in width and length as the dining rooms described above, but, since they have columns in them, their dimensions should be ampler.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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The only hints of their original identity are provided by the diadem and wreath of Statue A and the Corinthian helmet (now lost) of Statue B.
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As the Corinthian soldiers immediately snapped to attention, each Paladamian ship made its way slowly to the dockside.
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The new space was panelled throughout, and fluted Corinthian columns and pilasters were added.
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Paul warns the Corinthians that if they eat and drink in an unworthy manner, they will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
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In the other two are ancient vases, lecythi, statuettes and other Mycenaean, Geometrical, Corinthian, Boeotian, Attican and Hellenistic archaeological finds, on loan from the Archaeological Museum.
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The first half was poor with one or two goalmouth scrambles and the nearest Corinthians came was when a cross-cum-shot from one player forced the keeper to back-pedal to tip the ball on to the crossbar.
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Paul writes to the Corinthian church and reminds them of the gospel on which they took their stand - his formulation is believed to have been an early confession of faith.
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Each Corinthian soldier wore a simple coat of chain mail beneath a set of light plate mail, complete with a helm that was adorned with a small plume of pure white fur.
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We need to ask why Paul devotes so much space to the subject in writing to the Corinthians, while saying little about it to other churches.
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The Athenians were surprised by the Corinthians and Spartans, and the fleet was almost completely destroyed.
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The note continued: With these, the Greek sculptor Callimaque (Callimachus) decorated the Corinthian columns in the
Droguerie - French Word-A-Day
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When Paul writing to the Corinthians speaks of a division in the body of Christ, he uses the word schisma.
Anglican Mainstream
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Eight Corinthian pillars sentineled it, resting on a marble base which seemed to spring up out of the flag-stones themselves, and towering to the projecting entablature above.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
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This statement fits hand in glove with the Corinthian assertions in 6: 12-13.
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It chanced that the basket was put down upon a young acanthus plant, and the leaves grew up about the basket in such a way that when Callimachus saw it the design for the capital which we know as Corinthian was suggested to him, and was thus named from the city in which all this had occurred.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
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He baptized some first converts; and would have baptized more, but that his and the apostles 'peculiar work was to preach the Gospel, to found by their autoptic testimony particular churches, and then to superintend the churches in general. sent me -- literally, "as an apostle." not to baptize -- even in Christ's name, much less in my own. not with wisdom of words -- or speech; philosophical reasoning set off with oratorical language and secular learning, which the Corinthians set so undue a value upon (1Co 1: 5; 2: 1, 4) in Apollos, and the want of which in Paul they were dissatisfied with (2Co 10: 10). cross of Christ -- the sum and substance of the Gospel (1Co 1: 23; 2: 2),
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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St Paul himself was a master in glossolaly, more than all the Corinthians.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.
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Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.
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Evidence for this interpretation comes from the representation of a hexastyle Doric temple dedicated to the Gens Iulia on an issue of Corinthian bronze coins struck during the reign of Tiberius in A.D.32 / 3 or 33 / 4.
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Let it suffice to say that the principal theme of the two epistles to the Thessalonians is the expected return of Christ to earth; that those to the Corinthians are largely occupied with questions of
Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
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First Corinthians 3: 19." He patted Paz absently on the arm.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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Strider again played the taped conversation between a Natchitoches police dispatcher, Carter and his mother in which a child's voice in the background, the prosecutor argued, seems to be saying "Terrance" and "help" as Carter denied Corinthian was there.
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Corinthian town of Chalcis, and, making a descent upon Sicyon, defeated a Sicyonian force.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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City had certainly made considerable allowances in an attemptto help Corinthians facilitate a deal that always looked well out of their price range.
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To some of you, he'll be best known as the fiendish Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter films, but to me he is, in the words of David Bowie, chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature.
The Guardian World News
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The completion of the fourth aedicule from the left, which proved to be a nerve breaking task, as first of all its entablature had to fit to both the corresponding parts of the most complex part of the building, i.e. the curved central niche, and to a completely newly carved Corinthian capital.
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There were also fragments of earlier unglazed Corinthian and Attic lamps of the second to fourth centuries.
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The temple proper, measuring 2815 m., consists of a square cella and a hexastyle pronaos formed of Corinthian columns on a high podium; it is surrounded by a precinct wall which encloses an area 40 m. square.
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The following season also brought success as Corinthians won the league in addition to best defence award.
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The last is that sort which is usually called the Corinthian grape.
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Modelled on St. Peter's basilica in Rome, its façade is defined by Corinthian pilasters and a pediment, with a great central dome towering over them.
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In fact, the phrase pledge allegiance is what linguists call a hapax legomenon, or hapax for short an expression that only occurs in a single place in the language, like wardrobe malfunction, Corinthian leather, or satisfactual.
I Pledge Allegiance To Linguistic Obfuscation
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Thus here, as in 1 Corinthians, the cult narrative of Israel is employed as one of the constitutive elements of communal identity.
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Vaulted ceilings, corinthian columns, picture windows and snowy white rooms enlivened with the occasional burst of vibrant wallpaper make for a very different environment from the bare-bones mildewed hostels of yesteryear, though the animated social vibe has proven timeless.
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When the news reached the Corinthians that Epidamnus was besieged, they equipped an army and proclaimed that a colony was to be sent thither; all who wished might go and enjoy equal rights of citizenship; but any one who was unwilling to sail at once might remain at Corinth, and, if he made a deposit of fifty Corinthian drachmae, might still have a share in the colony. 28
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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This singular ambition was realized in the remarkable building that now loomed before me, whose design was characterized by a discordant—if not utterly bizarre—juxtaposition of architectural embellishments, from medieval battlements, to Corinthian columns, to Oriental minarets, to the sort of elaborately scrolled buttresses characteristic of the Italian baroque—the entire, unparalleled combination giving to the whole an air of Arabian Nights fantasticalness, as though the building had sprung full-blown from the teeming reveries of an inordinately imaginative child.
Nevermore
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These columns are of different orders on each storey (Tuscan at the bottom, then Ionic, with Corinthian columns in the third storey).
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The neoclassic design, with its six tall Corinthian columns and sculptured pediment, is the famous building known around the world today that NYSE still occupies, and is a National Historic Landmark.
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The lone, thin word dissipated with the smoke, and naught remained of Emilio the Corinthian.
Conan The Unconquered
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- 1 CORINTHIANS 13: 8) + + + Onward, The Seer Glass ships of fear Marauder's path Gaze in her eyes Sacred and wise ... prophecy Lost in her trance In her eyes the flames dance ... foreboding Truth of her days Black endless rays Shows the skryer
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We set Hector and Fred up in a nice temple with Doric columns and rich Corinthian leather, and a supply of virgins of proper genetic makeup, selected with an eye (and a tape measure) toward their “group differences” are first hectored by Hector about having children, and then quickly whicked over to the inner chamber, where Fred is waiting to make those “group differences” even greater.
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Just as we are told that the Lord always leads us into His triumph, we can be sure that His people will prevail at the end (see II Corinthians 2:14). We must never forget that.
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It was tripteral octastyle on the two narrow sides, and dipteral eikosastyle on the long sides, that is, it was surrounded by 104 Corinthian columns in total.
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Nevertheless, its removal from the political scene was mirrored by the physical removal of the city, believed by most ancient writers to now lie deep below the waters of the Corinthian gulf.
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I was surrounded by gloriously clean-limbed Corinthians with gleaming kit and designer Lycra body suits.
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They are all of the Corinthian order, fluted and embellished with capitals of the most exquisite sculpture, the frize and cornice are much admired, and the foliage is esteemed inimitable.
Travels through France and Italy
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This famous building, originally painted in gold, red and blue, achieves the classical Greek sense of harmony and illustrates the three orders of Greek columns: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.
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There are five different styles of cavaedium, termed according to their construction as follows: Tuscan, Corinthian, tetrastyle, displuviate, and testudinate.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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Writing to the Corinthians, Paul offered some clues for where to look for the Spirit's work.
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Graceful, narrow arches supported by Corinthian columns flank its altar and frame its windows.
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His reply was in clear, unaccented Corinthian.
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He saw the distance between the columns as an integral part of each order, with for instance two and a quarter column diameters serving as the intercolumniation for the Ionic order, and two for the Corinthian.
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The first half was poor with one or two goalmouth scrambles and the nearest Corinthians came was when a cross-cum-shot from one player forced the keeper to back-pedal to tip the ball on to the crossbar.
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An armed figure with Corinthian helmet, cuirass, and greaves, and holding a spear and round shield, runs with a very wide stride behind each chariot.
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The new space was panelled throughout, and fluted Corinthian columns and pilasters were added.
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In the 6th century, Athenian black-figure supplanted Corinthian and became the dominant ware with workshops exporting painted ceramics throughout the Mediterranean and beyond.
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Though the first designers of the modillion were probably Greeks, it must, nevertheless, be taken as really a Roman device, worthily completing the essentially Roman Corinthian order.
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There were three types of columns, which were Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
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Here in the wilds of Scotland, there were also incidents of note, though none would stir fond memories of Corinthian spirit.
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There were some in the Corinthian Church who had become thus enervated and forceless, and the Apostle seeks to stir them up into a more vigorous life.
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