Encyclo - De online Nederlandstalige encyclopedie뮠in 驮 oogopslag
Encyclopedia Sources Categories About Encyclo      Enzyklopädie-DE Encyclopedie-NL
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Index
Agriculture and Industry
Animals and Nature
Architecture and Buildings
Arts
Business and Law
Earth and Environment
Economy and Finance
Education
Electronics and Engineering
Film and Animation
Food and Drink
General
General technical and industrial
Government and organisations
Health and Medicine
History and Culture
Hobbies and Crafts
Language and Literature
Legal
Management
Mathematics and statistics
Meteorology and astronomy
Military and Defence
Music and Sound
People and society
Sciences
Sport and Leisure
Technical and IT
Travel and Transportation

Look up: calvary

  1. calvary
    [n] - a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified 2. [n] - any experience that causes intense suffering
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Calvary
    In the New Testament, the site of Jesus' crucifixion at Jerusalem. Two chief locations are suggested: the site where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre now stands, and the hill...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  3. Calvary
    Cal'va·ry (kăl'vȧ*rȳ) noun [ Latin calvaria a bare skull, from calva the scalp without hair. from calvus bald; confer French calvaire .] 1. The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill out...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/11

  4. calvary
    noun any experience that causes intense suffering
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Calvary
    Golgotha noun a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Calvary
    • (n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion. • (n.) A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly ca...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. Calvary
    (from the article `Bassano, Jacopo`) ...Bassano`s art matured, his brushstrokes became looser and the forms and masses of his compositions became larger and more lively—a development ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/9

  8. calvary
    • a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified
    • any experience that causes intense suffering

    Found on

  9. Calvary
    Calvary (kăl'vurē) [Lat.,=a skull] or Golgotha (gol'guthu) [Heb.,=a skull], in the Gospels, place where Jesus was crucified, outside what was then the wall of Jerusalem. Its location is not certainly known. The traditional identification of the site of Calvary was made by St. Hel...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  10. Calvary
    :For alternative meanings, see: Calvary (disambiguation), Mount Calvary (disambiguation), and ˈɡɒlɡəθə-->) was the site, outside of ancient Jerusalem in Christianity|Jerusalem’s early first century walls, at which the crucifixion of Jesus is said to have occurred. <...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary

  11. Calvary
    (Angel) "`Calvary`" is episode 12 of season 4 in the television show Angel. The gang scrambles to locate Angel’s soul, while Angelus tells the group that the Beast is controlled by a higher being further up. Plot: Angelus wakes up and informs the gang that the Beast ac...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary

  12. Calvary
    (CRT station) `Calvary` was a station on the Chicago Rapid Transit Company`s Evanston Line, now the Chicago Transit Authority`s Purple Line. The station was located at 400 N. Chicago Avenue. Calvary opened on May 16, 1908, and closed in 1931; it was replaced by South Boulevard. After its clos...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary



...

11 February 2012

This day in history:
On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

Encyclo in your browser

Encyclo in the search bar of your browser? Click for more info! Would you like to use Encyco more often? Add an (extra) search option to the search field of your browser. Installed in 3 seconds, easy to remove.
More info

Statistics

Encyclo has been online since october 15th 2007. It currently contains 3,485,243 words from 1122 sources. The words are listed in 32 categories.

Search

Type a word and press the `Search` button.

Recent searches

The most recent searches on Encyclo. Between brackets you will find the number of results and number of related results.
pulmonary (2/25)
Genetic (22/25)
Absolute (5/25)
kern (18/25)
dacryocele (4/0)
tarsalgia (6/0)
Stapes (17/4)
Somnium (4/1)

© Encyclo MMXI
Contact Privacy