10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACANTHINE»
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acanthine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Fourfold Gospel: the Founding of the New Kingdom Or Life ...
"an acanthine crown" and by Matthew as "from acanthai." In Greek literature,
Stephanos, "crown," does not denote royalty. That would be denoted by "diadem.
" But in LXX Stephanos occasionally means " royal crown," and here the context ...
2
Geological Survey Professional Paper
... observed on the cardinal side at the tip of one specimen (pi. 1, fig. 9). Depth of
the calice in 34 specimens varies between 33 and 58 percent of the coral length
and averages 47 percent. The septa are acanthine, having denticulate edges (pl.
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1983
3
U.S. Geological Survey professional paper
It differs from the genotype species by having more closely set tabulae, a wider
dissepimentarium, and more closely crowded acanthine septa. Occurrence:
Silurian, Hardwood Mountain formation; USGS loc. 2822-SD. Type: Holotype
USNM ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1963
4
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture: South-West England
ACANTHINE ORNAMENT The varied plant forms discussed above, which seem
to span a period from the late eighth through the ninth century, are succeeded by
plant ornament which is perceptibly more influenced by the taste for acanthine ...
Rosemary Cramp, British Academy, 2006
5
Revision of the Families and Genera of the Devonian Tetracorals
The Silurian genera possess radially arranged acanthine septa with no
development of fossulae. Hill (1936, p. 189—217) has given an excellent
description of the Silurian genera with acanthine septa. I believe that the
Devonian and ...
Erwin Charles Stumm, 1949
6
A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
ACANTHINE, among the antients, feme- thing belonging to, or refembling the
herb acanthus : hence we read of acan- thinc garments, acanthine woods, &c.
The acanthine garments, according to fome, were made of the down of thidles,
but ...
7
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Undifferentiated septa number about 46, some with and some without short
internal projections. Trabeculae nearly horizontal; do not project inward
significantly as acanthine spines. Tabulae straight, thickened, and widely spaced.
Occurrence.
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1987
8
The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
To the figural styles, the grandest manuscripts add a rich palette, lavish use of
gold, and frames of exuberant acanthine leafwork. Two such manuscripts, both
made at and for Winchester, represent the heights of this style: the New Minster ...
Helena Hamerow, David A. Hinton, Sally Crawford, 2011
9
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual
Your fluted bones and acanthine hair are littered In their old anarchy to the
horizon line. This rhetoric of mourning and objectification is governed by
anachronism; the 'blue sky out of the Oresteia' which 'arches above' the
protagonists of 'The ...
Kathleen Connors, Sally Bayley, 2007
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A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: ...
-_ ACANTHINE, among the _ antients, something belongingito, _or resembling
theherb acanthus:v hence we read of acanthine garments ,acanthine woods &so.
The acunthine garments, according to some, were made osthe' down of thiltles, ...
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen, Thomas Jefferys, 1754
