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(kash´ə, kas´ē
ə), n. |
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1. Also called cas´sia bark´,
Chinese cinnamon. a variety of cinnamon derived from the cassia-bark
tree.
2. Any of numerous plants, trees, and shrubs belonging
to the genus Cassia,
of the legume family, several species of which yield medicinal
products.
3. An ingredient used in the sacred annointing oil of Exodus
30:22-25.
4. Romanized spelling of Job's second daughter in Job
42:14.
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The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more
than the first. ... The first daughter he named Jemimah,
the second Keziah
[קצִיעָה
; κασία] and
the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in all the land were there
found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father
granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
— Job 42:12-15 (NIV)
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[bef. 1000;
ME cas(s)ia, OE <
L < Gk kas(s)īa
< Sem; cf. Heb qəṣī‛āh] |
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| fe·lic·i·ty
(fi lis´i tē),
n.,
pl. -ties. |
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1. the state of being happy, esp. in
a high degree; bliss: marital felicity.
2. an instance of this.
3. a source of happiness.
4. a skillful faculty: felicity
of expression.
5. an instance or display of this: the
many felicities of the poem.
6. Archaic.
good fortune.
[1350–1400;
ME felicite (< AF)
< L fēlīcitās,
equiv. to fēlīci-
(s. of fēlīx)
happy + -tās -TY2]
—Syn.1.
See happiness. |
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