Hag

  • 91hag|ga|dist — «huh GAH dihst», noun. 1. a writer of haggadic legends, parables, and like matter. 2. a student of the Haggadah. –hag´ga|dis´tic, adjective …

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  • 92hag|i|ar|chy — «HAG ee AHR kee, HAY jee », noun, plural chies. 1. government by saints or priests. 2. the order of saints. ╂[< Greek hágios holy + arch rule] …

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  • 93Hag|i|og|ra|pha — «HAG ee OG ruh fuh, HAY jee », noun (plural). the third and last division of the Biblical canon recognized by the Jews, usually comprising Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra,… …

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  • 94hag|i|og|ra|pher — «HAG ee OG ruh fuhr, HAY jee », noun. 1. a writer of lives of the saints or on sacred subjects. 2. one of the writers of the Hagiographa …

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  • 95hag|i|og|ra|phy — «HAG ee OG ruh fee, HAY jee », noun, plural phies. 1. the writing of saints lives. 2. a book about saints lives. 3. Figurative. a biography that adulates or idolizes its subject: »“Proconsul in Politics” is not yet another full scale life but an… …

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  • 96hag|i|o|scope — «HAG ee uh skohp, HAY jee », noun. a small opening, cut through a chancel arch or wall, to give a view of the main altar to worshipers in an aisle or side chapel. ╂[< Greek hágios holy + English scope] …

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  • 97hag|rid|den — «HAG RIHD uhn», adjective. 1. worried or tormented as if by witches; harassed. 2. afflicted by a nightmare …

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  • 98hag|ride — «HAG RYD», transitive verb, rode, rid|den, rid|ing. to oppress with or as if with nightmare. ╂[< hag1 + ride] …

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  • 99hag|ta|per — «HAG TAY puhr», noun. the common mullein, a weed. ╂[origin uncertain] …

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  • 100hag-ridden — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ afflicted by nightmares or anxieties …

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