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Goliath(dictionary)
Goliath - General(gambling)
goliath beetle(medicine)

accite (iou) and Goliath (iou)


accite (iou)



accite verb trans.L15.
[Latin accit- pa. ppl stem of accire, from ad AC- + ciere to call: see CITE verb.]
Summon. L15-L17.
G. Chapman Our heralds..accited all that were Endamag'd.
Excite. L16-M17.
Jonson To accite So ravenous..an Appetite.
Quote. Only in M17.
Donne Accited for examples..in the Scriptures.

Goliath (iou)



Goliath noun. Also goliath. L16.
[ecclesiastical Latin = Hebrew golya the giant slain by David (1 Samuel 17).]
A giant. Freq. with allusion to the biblical story of David and Goliath. L16.
More fully Goliath beetle. Any of several very large arboreal scarabaeid beetles constituting the tropical genus Goliathus, up to 20 cm (8 inches) in length. E19.
More fully Goliath crane. A kind of powerful travelling crane. L19.
Comb.: Goliath beetle: see sense 2 above; Goliath crane: see sense 3 above; Goliath frog a giant frog, Rana goliath, of west central Africa; Goliath heron a very large reddish-brown and grey heron, Ardea goliath, of African coastal and inland water margins.