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The Lion

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The king of animals, was the symbol of power, courage, and virtue, and in Christian art of the resurrection; is in general, as Mr. Fairholt remarks, "a royal symbol, and in emblem of dominion, ...

solar year

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The period of 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 52 seconds which the earth takes to complete a revolution of the sun.

sruti

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The name given to sacred and revealed tradition, or revelation generally, among the Hindus.

Theodoric

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Surnamed the Great, founder of the monarchy of the Ostro- or East Goths, son of Theodemir, the Ostrogothic king of Pannonia; was for ten years during his youth a hostage at the Byzantine Court at ...

The "English Hippocrates," born in Dorsetshire, educated at Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls'; practised medicine in London, where, though regarded with disfavour by the faculty, he stood in high ...

sun-worship

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The worship of the sun is conceived of as an impersonation of the deity, that originated among races so far advanced in civilisation as to recognise what they owed to its benignant influence, in ...

Sudarium

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The handkerchief given by St. Veronica to Christ as He was passing to crucifixion, and on which His face was miraculously impressed as He wiped the sweat off it.