1.a combining form meaning “straight,”“upright,”“right,”“correct”:orthodontics; orthopedic. 2. a.a combining form used in the name of the most hydrated acid in a given series:orthoboric acid.Comparemeta- (def. 2a),pyro- (def. 2a). ...
The wordeugenic, like the nameEugene, includes the Greek root meaning "born". Breeders of farm animals have long usedeugenicmethods to produce horses that run faster, for example, or pigs that provide more meat. Througheugenics, Holstein cows have become one of the world's highest producers ...
Just remember that you are hearing those who authored the scriptures singing of their meaning, not doing archaeology from “the original Greek” and not taking them out of the context of the community that wrote them, with the fullness of *all* that it is saying and doing, and was before...
and the glory of thy people Israel(Lk. 2:30-32). This song of thanksgiving goes back in thought and expression to certain passages in the book of the Prophet Isaiah:And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in...
before vowelsorth-, word-forming element meaning "straight, upright, rectangular, regular; true, correct, proper," now mostly in scientific and technical compounds, from Greekorthos"straight, true, correct, regular," from PIE*eredh-"high" (source also of Sanskriturdhvah"high, lofty, steep,"...
which in the Greek language differentiateshomoiousion,“of similar essence,” fromhomoousion,“coessential.”[2]“Those who call these men [i.e., Arians] Christians are in great and grievous error,” writes St. Athanasius the Great.[3]Thus did this adamant of Orthodoxy argue definitively ...
before vowelsorth-, word-forming element meaning "straight, upright, rectangular, regular; true, correct, proper," now mostly in scientific and technical compounds, from Greekorthos"straight, true, correct, regular," from PIE*eredh-"high" (source also of Sanskriturdhvah"high, lofty, steep,"...
"correct practice, action, or procedure," 1840, from ortho- + Greek praxis "a doing,… See origin and meaning of orthopraxy.