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Galilean   /gˌæləlˈiən/   Listen
noun
Galilean  n.  
1.
A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.
2.
(Jewish Hist.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; called also Gaulonite.
3.
A Christian in general; used as a term of reproach by Muslims and Pagans.



adjective
Galilean  adj.  Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.



Galilean  adj.  Of or relating to Galilee.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Galilean" Quotes from Famous Books



... knight's favour; "I have much to say in the behalf of that Falstaff." Rabelais, evangelist and prophet of the Resurrection of the Flesh (so long entombed, ignored, repudiated, misconstrued, vilified, by so many generations and ages of Galilean preachers and Pharisaic schoolmen)—Rabelais was content to paint the flesh merely, in its honest human reality—human at least, if also bestial; in its frank and rude reaction against the half brainless ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... Pagans, did not cry, Vicisti Galilae! Mr. Swinburne, however, as a merely carnal poet, employed the legend in his splendid "Proserpina," using it with superb effect in the young Pagan's retort, "Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean!—thy dead shall go down to thee dead." But now the "sovereign voice" speaks through Sir Edwin Arnold, and the ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... to some extent true in Odd Fellowship and other societies which have been helpful to the race. But the most substantial organization now operated by and for the Negro race in this country are the True Reformers, Galilean Fishermen and Birmingham, Alabama, ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... that company, A Galilean whom his speech bewrayed, And when they lifted up their songs of glee, ...
— Robert F. Murray - his poems with a memoir by Andrew Lang • Robert F. Murray

... for in the general course of the evolution of a people, and not in the isolated facts from which this evolution appears at times to proceed. Were these facts alone to be taken into consideration, history would seem to be the result of a series of improbable chances. It was improbable that a Galilean carpenter should become for two thousand years an all-powerful God in whose name the most important civilisations were founded; improbable, too, that a few bands of Arabs, emerging from their deserts, should conquer the greater part of ...
— The Crowd • Gustave le Bon


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