swine-flesh
1do not throw pearls to swine — With allusion to MATTHEW vii. 6 (AV) Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. Often in the phrase to cast pearls before swine. 1340 Ayenbite of Inwit (EETS) 152 Thet we ne thrauwe naght oure preciouse… …
2Blasphemy Made Flesh — Infobox Album Name = Blasphemy Made Flesh Type = studio Artist = Cryptopsy Released = 2001 Recorded = 1994 Genre = Brutal death metal Length = 39:42 Label = Century Media Producer = Cryptopsy Reviews = Last album = Ungentle Exhumation (1993) This …
3PIG — (Heb. חֲזִיר, ḥazir). Included in the Pentateuch among the unclean animals prohibited as food is the pig which, although cloven footed, is a nonruminant (Lev. 11:7; Deut. 16:8). It is the sole unclean animal mentioned as possessing these… …
4pig — n. 1. Young hog. 2. Swine. 3. Pork, swine flesh …
5Adivasi — Ādivāsīs (in Devanagari script: आदिवासी), literally original inhabitants , comprise a substantial indigenous minority of the population of India. Indian tribals are also called Atavika (forest dwellers, in Sanskrit texts), Vanvasis or Girijans… …
6South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists — The Seventh day Adventist Church in the South Pacific, (Oceania), is formally organised as the South Pacific Division of Seventh day Adventists (SPD), also abbreviated as the South Pacific Division or simply the Division . It is one of 13 world… …
7Kannappa Nayanar — or Kannappan was one of the 63 Nayanmars or holy Saivite saints, the staunch devotees of Lord Shiva. The Periyapuranam compiled by Sekkizhar and also the Tiruthhthondar Thogai by the poet saint Sundarar enlists the 63 Nayanars. Birth and Life… …
8pork — n. Swine flesh, pig meat …
9MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS° — (c. 400), Roman grammarian. He credits augustus with a grim pun reflecting Jewish abstinence from swine flesh. On hearing that herod had ordered his own son to be killed, Augustus remarked: I would rather be Herod s pig (Gr. hus) than his son (Gr …
10Domestic pig — Swine redirects here. For other uses, see Swine (disambiguation). Domestic pig A domestic sow and her piglet. Conservation status Domesticated …
