Biblia

Mummy

Mummy is a name derived from an Arabic word, mum, signifying wax, and is now applied not only to those dead bodies of men and animals in the preparation of which wax or some similar material was used, but to all those which are by ally means preserved in a dry state from the process … Continue reading “Mummy”

Mumbo Jumbo

Mumbo Jumbo a mysterious personage frightful to the whole race of African matrons. According to the description of Mr. Wilson, “he is a strong, athletic man disguised in dry plantain leaves, and bearing a rod in his hand, which he uses on proper occasions with the most unsparing severity. When invoked by an injured husband, … Continue reading “Mumbo Jumbo”

Multitude

Multitude MULTITUDE.This word is used in Authorized and Revised Versions to translate and . (1) is defined by Grimm-Thayer as a casual collection of people, a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place, a throng. The plural , which often occurs in Mt. and Lk., is found twice in Mk., viz mark. … Continue reading “Multitude”

Multiply

Multiply used (a) transitively, denotes “to cause to increase, to multiply,” 2Co 9:10; Heb 6:14 (twice); in the Passive Voice, “to be multiplied,” Mat 24:12, RV, “(iniquity) shall be multiplied” (AV, “shall abound”); Act 6:7; Act 7:17; Act 9:31; Act 12:24; 1Pe 1:2; 2Pe 1:2; Jud 1:2; (b) intransitively it denotes “to be multiplying,” Act … Continue reading “Multiply”

Multiplicity

Multiplicity The doctrine of the plurality of beings, or the manifoldness of the real, denied by the Eleatics, who contended that the multiplicity of things was but an illusion of the senses, was defended by Aristotle who maintained that the term, being, is only a common predicate of many things which become out of that … Continue reading “Multiplicity”