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Ephah
- noun - an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel
Ephas
- noun - an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel
Ephod
- - A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.
Ephor
- - A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.
Ethal
- - A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetyl alcohol and cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.
Ether
- noun - a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
- a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
- any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
- the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
Ethic
- noun - a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct
- the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; "the Puritan ethic"; "a person with old-fashioned values"
Ethos
- noun - (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era; "the Greek ethos"
- Disposition