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snick(2) (iou) and epiphany (iou)


snick(2) (iou)



snick noun2. L18.
[from SNICK verb2.]
A small cut; a nick, a notch. L18.
Cricket. A slight deflection of the ball by (esp. the edge of) the bat. M19.

epiphany (iou)



epiphany noun. ME.
[Ult. from Greek epiphainein to manifest, formed as EPI- + phainein show: see -Y3. In sense 1 from Old & mod. French epiphanie from ecclesiastical Latin epiphania pl. & sing. from ecclesiastical Greek epiphania pl.; in sense 2 partly from Greek epiphaneia manifestation.]
(Also Epiphany.) A Christian festival observed on 6 January, in the Orthodox Church commemorating the baptism of Jesus and in the Western Church the manifestation of Jesus to the Gentiles in the persons of the Magi. ME.
A manifestation of some divine or superhuman being. E17.
E. Irving The second coming..the glorious Epiphany of God our Saviour. M. Ayrton Dionysus, whose apotheosis, or epiphany,..was as a bull.
Any sudden and important manifestation or realization. M19.
T. Eagleton The Prelude draws back from the tragic brink to which its isolated epiphanies allude. F. Fergusson The final perception or epiphany..with which the play ends.
Comb.: Epiphanytide the period of the Church's year beginning with and immediately following Epiphany.
epi'phanic adjective of the Nature of an epiphany M20.
epiphanize verb trans. make manifest, reveal M20.