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  • adjective Of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him.

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  • adjective Of or relating to Moses or to the Torah (the Five Books of Moses); especially, relating to the laws given in the Torah.

Etymologies

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From Middle French mosaïque, moysaique. English from the 17th century.

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Examples

  • Now, via a pair of releases on the mail-order label Mosaic Select, they are linked again for their big-band work.

    Big-Band Sounds—Of the 1970s Martin Johnson 2011

  • Mosaic is the only print magazine dedicated to showcasing writers of African descent and the books that they produce.

    Bronx-Based African-American Literary Magazine Helps Educators Develop Readers « Blogs « Literacy News 2009

  • Their Mosaic is the one I tried most recently and loved.

    Channing Daughters Winery 2005 Mudd 2009

  • Jericho Mosaic is a more straightforward book - if any of Whittemore's work can be described as straightforward.

    Archive 2005-01-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • Jericho Mosaic is a more straightforward book - if any of Whittemore's work can be described as straightforward.

    Top Three Reads - 2004 Hal Duncan 2005

  • Nothing can be more rigidly materialistic than the called Mosaic law.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Her work has appeared in Mosaic magazine and It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family, and Friends and is slated to appear in Reverie: A Journal of Midwest African American Literature.

    Rebecca Walker: Letters to Keep Us Off the Ledge Rebecca Walker 2010

  • More importantly, he suggests why the knowledge that "the worst of the worst" were really innocent was no impediment to the continued incarceration and interrogation of these people: an intelligence program called Mosaic, in which even innocents could contribute useful shreds of information -- where were the mailboxes on their street?

    Harry Shearer: Why the War Crimes? 2009

  • LA TRIVIATA - those bits of business that can often serve as the building blocks for the Great Link, the Grand Mosaic, that is Toobworld.

    ANNIVERSARY SCHMALTZ Toby O'B 2009

  • LA TRIVIATA - those bits of business that can often serve as the building blocks for the Great Link, the Grand Mosaic, that is Toobworld.

    Archive 2009-08-30 Toby O'B 2009

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