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  • noun Plural form of bethel.

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Examples

  • All those methyl ethyl bethels in the spell are difficult enough to get straight when you're at the top of your form.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • All those methyl ethyl bethels in the spell are difficult enough to get straight when you're at the top of your form.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • Philo of Byblus defined the bethels as [Greek: lithoi empsuchoi] (2, § 20, FHG, III, p. 563): Hippolytus also tells us (V, 1, p. 145, Cruice), that in the Syrian mysteries ([Greek: Assuriôn teletai]) it was taught that the stones were animated ([Greek: hoi lithoi eisin empsuchoi; echousi gar to auxêtikon]), and the same doctrine perpetuated itself in Manicheism.

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • During the last years of paganism the neo-Platonists developed a superstitious worship of the bethels; see Conybeare, _Transactions of the

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

  • As has been already pointed out, the {diopetres} of the Greeks was probably a meteorite, and stones marking the position of the Semitic bethels were probably, in their origin, the same.

    The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895

  • There are morning and evening and weekly newspapers; clubs and reading-rooms and bowling alleys; billiard halls and barrooms; schools and bethels.

    Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Trinity, St. Paul's, the old Dutch Church in Fulton street, and a few seamen's bethels along the river, are the only places of worship left to the dwellers in the lower part of the city, who are chiefly the poor and needy.

    The Secrets of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • a protoprostitute (he would always have a (stp!) little pigeoness somewhure with his arch girl, Arcoiris, smockname of Mergyt) just as he was butting in rand the coyner of bad times under a hideful between the rival doors of warm bethels of worship through his boardelhouse fongster, greeting for grazious oras as usual: Where ladies have they that a dog meansort herring?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • To leave the melancholy and futuristic atmosphere of seminaries and bethels where the ghosts and penalties of millions of sins cast down their hearts, where few baths and drab clothes, dark homes and poor food, made all conscious of dwelling in a vale of tears, and after half a year or more of hard, ship fare and the rough discipline of a tossing windjammer, to find themselves in the most magnificent scenes on the globe, and amid the richest bounty, was trial enough of the unstable soul of man.

    Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915

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