Word Finder - lore

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All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.

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the lore of the Ancient Egyptians

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The backstory created around a fictional universe.

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Workmanship.

It obtrudes itself in fine art, behaviour, law-making, lore and religion.

He welcomed the lore of every stranger.

The thought life of the American aborigines is expressed in their practical knowledge and their lore.

Even in the course of a general survey of the legal lore at our disposal, one cannot help being struck by peculiarities in the distribution of legal subjects.

Noteworthy coincidences in the lives of Abraham and Isaac, noticed above, point to the fluctuating state of traditions in the oral stage, or suggest that Abraham's life has been built up by borrowing from the common stock of popular lore.

He had much oral lore which he told with great dramatic power.

The literal sense of the term churinga, applied by the Central Australians to their sacred objects, and likewise used more abstractly to denote mystic power, as when a man is said to be " full of churinga," is " secret," and is symptomatic of the esotericism that is a striking mark of Australian, and indeed of all primitive, religion, with its insistence on initiation, its exclusion of women, and its strictly enforced reticence concerning traditional lore and proceedings.

In each case we have merely a selection of current traditional lore.

We get none of the biological absurdities of abduction lore, no switching off of witnesses, no mind rays.

See his treatise on The Making of Religion (1898), and Hartland's article on " The ' High Gods ' of Australia," Folk Lore (1898), ix.

In the First Punic War, Caere furnished Rome with corn and provisions, but otherwise, up till the end of the Republic, we only hear of prodigies being observed at Caere and reported at Rome, the Etruscans being especially expert in augural lore.

However, even if they had stage qualities, the very length of this and his other plays, the Ulisipo and the Aulegraphia, would prevent their performance, but in fact they are novels in dialogue containing a treasury of popular lore and wise and witty sayings with a moral object.

According to Arabic lore, based on Jewish legends, at this spot Nimrod sought to throw Abraham into a fiery furnace, from which he was saved by the grace of God.

He was a layman (Paul Wernle), without technical Jewish lore.

Like the Gaulish druids described by Caesar, the poet (fili) and the druid possessed a huge stock of unwritten native lore, probably enshrined in verse which was learnt by rote by their pupils.

Although the priestly source shows how the lore could be reshaped, and Jubilees represents later efforts along similar lines, it is evident that for ordinary readers the patriarchal traditions could not be presented in an entirely new form, and that to achieve their aims the writers could not be at direct variance with current thought.

A great warrior and an upright ruler, his conquests recalled those of the great Christian emperors, and the Church completed the parallel by training him in her lore.

Partly from superiority to the narrowness of his age, and partly in the interest of his struggle with the Papacy, this Malleus ecclesiae Romanae drew to his court those savants whose pursuits were discouraged by the church, and especially students in the forbidden lore of the Arabians.

Diseases and distrubances of the ordinary functions of the organs were attributed to the influence of planets or explained as due to conditions observed in a constellation or in the position of a star; and an interesting survival of this bond between astrology and medicine is to be seen in the use up to the present time of the sign of Jupiter 4., which still heads medicinal prescriptions, while, on the other hand, the influence of planetary lore appears in the assignment of the days of the week to the planets, beginning with Sunday, assigned to the sun, and ending with Saturday, the day of Saturn.

The book has many fascinating bits of lore, as well as extensive oral poetry, all in Scots dialect.

He knew there must be one eventually for in his life he had been a Master of arcane lore.

Powells perceptive commentary is of enduring interest to all lovers of esoteric lore.

This kingdom, covering from Wiltshire to Cornwall, is the area richest in Arthurian lore.

Thousands of volumes of occult lore weighted its shelves.

Celtic lore says rubbing primrose flowers over your eyelids can gie you a way into the fairy word.

He taught her many things including the art of healing and herbal lore.

Harte also argues that fairy lore has an elite, courtly rather folk origin.

Classic vampire lore has been updated for the series.

There is folk lore to say there used to be a Roman temple up at the top end of Beer.

The new moon continues to produce a good deal of weather lore.

Here I was lent a pamphlet which contained fascinating snippets of plant lore.

The Eildons have been the subject of much legendary lore.

His instructions were for some time handed down orally, but were subsequently committed to writing, and formed the twelve books of Tages, containing a complete system of Etruscan lore.

Folk Lore Has Always Been The Most Essentially French Of All Imaginative Influences In Canadian Life; And The Songs Are The Quintessence Of The Lore.

Similarly in the East, the Syriac version of the Old Testament is largely under the influence of the synagogue, and the homilies of Aphraates are a mine of Rabbinic lore.

Icelandic literature consists mainly of the so-called "sagas," or prose narratives, and is rich in historical lore.

He was the author of a brief epitome of Roman history based upon Livy, which he utilized as a means of displaying his antiquarian lore.

Works are extant in papyri and on temple walls, treating of geography, astronomy, ritual, myths, medicine, &c. It is probable that the native priests would have been ready to ascribe the authorship or inspiration, as well as the care and protection of all their books of sacred lore to Thoth, although there were a goddess of writing (Seshit), and the ancient deified scribes Imuthes and Amenophis, and later inspired doctors Petosiris, Nechepso, &c., to be reckoned with; there are indeed some definite traces of such an attribution extant in individual cases.

Marett proposed the term " Animatism," Folk Lore (1900), xi.

The system was taken up almost bodily by the Arab astronomers, it was embodied in the Kabbalistic lore of Jews and Christians, and through these and other channels came to be the substance of the astrology of the middle ages, forming, as already pointed out, under the designation of "judicial astrology," a pseudo-science which was placed on a perfect footing of equality with "natural astrology" or the more genuine science of the study of the motions and phenomena of the heavenly bodies.

Unless studying contemporary lore, folklorists cannot observe the behavior of the people they are studying.

Hawaiian lore claims members gave me town's economic mainstay the caffeine rush.

Much Pagan lore was hidden in these ditties during the years of witch persecutions.

The Shaven Crown does indeed possess its share of supernatural lore, attached particularly to Room 11.

Clement himself had declared that natural lore, as taught in the course of higher Christian education according to the canon of truth, ought to proceed from "cosmogony" to "the theological idea," 2 and even in the little that is left of the works of Origen we have two instances of the proceeding in question.

Briefly speaking, the NO was a dance of the most stately character, adapted to the incidents of dramas which embrace within their scope a world of legendary lore, of quaint fancies and of religious sentiment.

He lef t Venice for Rome; his library was offered for sale; and in 1821 he published at Pisa a catalogue raisonne, rich in bibliographical lore, of this fine collection, the result of thirty years of loving labour, which in 1824 was purchased en bloc by Pope Leo XII., and added to the Vatican library.

A terrible lore that allows spell casters, both Arcane and Divine to rape the land of its very life to fuel their magic.

One is his devotion to alchemy, and how his being steeped in the alchemical lore influenced the rest of his work.

It is as famous in the annals of vampire lore as Whitby and its Dracula associations.