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rabid
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rabid
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adjective
1.
a rabid dog
synonyms
: rabies-infected, mad, hydrophobic.
2.
her rabid anti-immigration views a mecca for rabid shoppers
synonyms
: extreme, fanatical, overzealous, extremist, maniacal, passionate, fervent, overkeen, diehard, uncompromising, illiberal;
informal
gung-ho, foaming at the mouth.
antonym:
moderate.
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Deft Analysis of the Life of a Legendary Leader
Magazine article from: Army
; ...warmonger Pyrrhus, of all people, performing faith healings as a sign of his divine lineage. Among the antics of the later diadochi, Antiochus the Great erected statues of himself to be worshipped in the temple in Jerusalem, maturing the pattern of the...
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Party time
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...whether I won or lost. All Aspers's parties were centred on a theme or one of his heroes, people like Mithridates or the Diadochi or Cuauhtmoc, the last emperor of the Aztecs. The expense and attention to detail at each feast were enormous. I once told...
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The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism: Jewish and Christian Ethnicity in Ancient Palestine.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...existence of indigenous temples at the center of political and social networks was a feature of all of the monarchies ruled by the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander the Great. A common pattern of social stratification also marked those greater states. In each...
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In brief
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...1983 and then in English in 1995. It is now revised and corrected, covering the periods from Alexander the Great and the Diadochi to the Arab conquest of Palestine. The useful and extensive bibliography and chronological table do not make up for the stiff...
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Tubinger Bibelatlas
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; ...journeys of the apostle Paul. But one will find separate, detailed sheets for the exploits of Alexander the Great, for the Diadochi, for Hellenistic states in the third century BC, for Hellenistic states in the second century BC, etc. Where else but on...
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Idumaean ostraca and early Hellenistic chronology.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...expelling Seleucus from Babylon, until the battle of Ipsus. Antigonus arrived in Babylon early in 316. The Babylonian or Diadochi Chronicle (BM 34660 obv. 14-15) states that in the month of Tashritu (Teshri), in the seventh year of Philip III...
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Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...the ways of vision and union. Like Proclus' Platonic Theology, later writers such as Damascius, the last of the platonic Diadochi (d. 538), also saw the text as pointing to theurgic ritual. Rappe accordingly shows how these later texts wish to reveal...
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