ovipositor
ovipositor An organ at the hind end of the abdomen of female insects through which eggs are laid. It consists of a pair of modified appendages and is often long and piercing, so that eggs can be laid in otherwise inaccessible places. The sting of bees and wasps is a modified ovipositor.
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Transfiguration
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 7/1/2006; ; 622 words
; Transfiguration by Dorothy Lee Continuum, London...Melbourne, explores the theme of transfiguration in order to draw out all of its...including the accounts of the transfiguration of Jesus in Mark, Matthew, and...
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The Transfiguration of Jesus: Narrative Meaning and Function of Mark 9:2-8, Mat 17:1-8, and Luke 9:28-36
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; JOHN PAUL HEIL, The Transfiguration of Jesus: Narrative Meaning...the Synoptic accounts of the transfiguration, using a narrative-critical...content and reception of the transfiguration story. The experience of a...
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NYC's Transfiguration School Gains Support
Newspaper article from: AsianWeek; 1/20/1999; 700+ words
; ...AsianWeek 01-20-1999 NYC's Transfiguration School Gains Support In the...private Catholic schools, the Transfiguration Elementary School, which...the Internet, students at Transfiguration had yet to see a computer...
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Review of Andrew P. Wilson, Transfigured: a Derridean Rereading of the Markan Transfiguration.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Bible and Critical Theory; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...DERRIDEAN REREADING OF THE MARKAN TRANSFIGURATION (NEW YORK: T&T CLARK, 2007...metaphysical presence, it is the transfiguration. Mark's version is different from...theological reading of the Markan transfiguration. He offers a balanced approach that...
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Towards 'un succes absolument formidable': the birth of Messiaen's La Transfiguration
Magazine article from: Musical Times; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...memorial to its founder. The work, La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ...circumstances of the commission of La Transfiguration resulted in a remarkably thorough...work for chorus and orchestra on the Transfiguration' at the end of his diary for 1961...
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Matthew's Transfiguration Story and Jewish-Christian Controversy
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...D. A. MOSES, Matthews Transfiguration Story and Jewish-Christian...redactional study of Matthew's transfiguration narrative (17:1-13...contemporary scholarship on the transfiguration, emphasizing the widespread...
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Jay Wright. Transfigurations: Collected Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U. P., 2000.(Review)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Poems. Jay Wright's Transfigurations is a book, like Bunting...of Poet Y. At the time Transfigurations was printed, as far as...Bunting's Collected Poems, Transfigurations begs the work be considered...transformation and transfiguration--as the polar axes of...
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WATCH GROUP GROWS POWERFUL; CITY OFFICIALS LISTEN WHEN TRANSFIGURATION ORGANIZATION TALKS.(Neighbors Syracuse)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 5/16/2002; 700+ words
; ...Luis Perez Staff writer Transfiguration Church Neighborhood Watch...its meetings every month at Transfiguration Church, 740 Teall Ave. On...listening to them." The Transfiguration group successfully lobbied...
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Our Lady draws faithful to Transfiguration church
Newspaper article from: Lake Zurich Courier (IL); 7/11/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the New Millennium left Wauconda's Transfiguration Church early Sunday morning, but...very welcoming," Zimmermann, a Transfiguration pastoral minister, said. "She had...s side during a two-week stay at Transfiguration. "They came from all over. It was...
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Classical Music: This one goes out to God Messiaen's La Transfiguration is a huge work of homage.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/25/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...second is a colossal oratorio, La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur, Jesus-Christ...rare opportunity to experience. La Transfiguration is a big work in every way. A 10...are the real protagonists of La Transfiguration. Between Trois petites liturgies...
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transfiguration
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
transfiguration The transfiguration is a concept in Christianity which is central to the understanding...Christ as joining the human and the divine. The notion of transfiguration marks the historical event when God became present in Christ...
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Transfiguration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Transfiguration in the New Testament, manifestation wherein Jesus appeared "shining" before Peter...to be the mountain where it took place. The event is commemorated in the feast of the Transfiguration on Aug. 6.
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Transfiguration of Christ
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Transfiguration of Christ. The story recorded in the first three gospels (Mark...glorious appearance alongside Moses and Elijah. The Feast of the Transfiguration on 6 Aug. has been observed in the East since before 1000 CE...
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Transfiguration, the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Transfiguration, the. The appearing of the Lord in glory during His earthly life...that it is a misplaced Resurrection appearance. The Feast of the Transfiguration, observed on 6 Aug., originated in the East. In the W. Callistus...
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Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, La
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, La. Work in 14 movts. to texts from the Bible, the Missal, and St Thomas Aquinas by Messiaen for ten., bar., ch., pf., and orch. Comp. 1965–9. F.p. Lisbon, 1969, cond. Baudo.
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