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- Period - n. - A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
- Period - n. - A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
- Period - n. - One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
- Period - n. - The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
- Period - n. - A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
- Period - n. - The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
- Period - n. - One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
- Period - n. - The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
- Period - n. - A complete musical sentence.
- Period - v. t. - To put an end to.
- Period - v. i. - To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
- Periodate - n. - A salt of periodic acid.
- Periodic - a. - Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.
- Periodic - a. - Alt. of Periodical
- Periodical - a. - Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
- Periodical - a. - Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun.
- Periodical - a. - Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics.
- Periodical - a. - Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.
- Periodical - n. - A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.
- Periodicalist - n. - One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.
- Periodically - adv. - In a periodical manner.
- Periodicalness - n. - Periodicity.
- Periodicities - pl. - of Periodicity
- Periodicity - n. - The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.
- Periodide - n. - An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
- Pythiad - n. - The period intervening between one celebration of the Pythian games and the next.
- Remembrance - n. - Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
- Periodical - a. - Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
- Sevennight - n. - A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
- Age - n. - A great period in the history of the Earth.
- Advent - n. - The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
- Oriskany - a. - Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age.
- Menopause - n. - The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.
- Decennium - n. - A period of ten years.
- Era - n. - A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
- Augurship - n. - The office, or period of office, of an augur.
- Adolescence - n. - The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
- Cycle - n. - The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.
- Cromlech - n. - A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.
- Coeval - n. - Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.
- Saturnalia - n. pl. - Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
- Perpetuation - n. - The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.
- Life - n. - Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.
- Menstruation - n. - The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.
- Junold - a. - See Gimmal. K () the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, is nonvocal consonant. The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).
- Summer - n. - The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
- Archaeolithic - a. - Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.
- Fluxion - n. - The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.
- Year - n. - The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
- Babyhood - n. - The state or period of infancy.
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- H5708 עֵד - 5708 עֵד - עֵד - - ʻêd - ayd - from an unused root meaning to set a period (compare עָדָה, עוּד); the menstrual flux (as periodical); by implication (in plural) soiling; filthy. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G165 αἰών - 165 αἰών - ΑἸΏΝ - - aiṓn - ahee-ohn' - from the same as ἀεί; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future):--age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever, (beginning of the , while the) world (began, without end). Compare χρόνος. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G5550 χρόνος - 5550 χρόνος - ΧΡΌΝΟΣ - - chrónos - khron'-os - of uncertain derivation; a space of time (in general, and thus properly distinguished from καιρός, which designates a fixed or special occasion; and from αἰών, which denotes a particular period) or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay:--+ years old, season, space, (X often-)time(-s), (a) while. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G1074 γενεά - 1074 γενεά - ΓΕΝΕΆ - - geneá - ghen-eh-ah' - from (a presumed derivative of) γένος; a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons):--age, generation, nation, time. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G2250 ἡμέρα - 2250 ἡμέρα - ἩΜΈΡΑ - - hēméra - hay-mer'-ah - feminine (with ὥρα implied) of a derivative of (to sit; akin to the base of ἑδραῖος) meaning tame, i.e. gentle; day, i.e. (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively, a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context):--age, + alway, (mid-)day (by day, (-ly)), + for ever, judgment, (day) time, while, years. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G4012 περί - 4012 περί - ΠΕΡΊ - - perí - per-ee' - from the base of πέραν; properly, through (all over), i.e. around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive case denoting the subject or occasion or superlative point; with the accusative case the locality, circuit, matter, circumstance or general period):--(there-)about, above, against, at, on behalf of, X and his company, which concern, (as) concerning, for, X how it will go with, ((there-, where-)) of, on, over, pertaining (to), for sake, X (e-)state, (as) touching, (where-)by (in), with. In comparative, it retains substantially the same meaning of circuit (around), excess (beyond), or completeness (through). - Preposition - greek
- G4138 πλήρωμα - 4138 πλήρωμα - ΠΛΉΡΩΜΑ - - plḗrōma - play'-ro-mah - from πληρόω; repletion or completion, i.e. (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness, multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period):--which is put in to fill up, piece that filled up, fulfilling, full, fulness. - Noun Neuter - greek
- G4137 πληρόω - 4137 πληρόω - ΠΛΗΡΌΩ - - plēróō - play-ro'-o - from πλήρης; to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.:--accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply. - Verb - greek
- G5148 τριετία - 5148 τριετία - ΤΡΙΕΤΊΑ - - trietía - tree-et-ee'-ah - from a compound of τρεῖς and ἔτος; a three years' period (triennium):--space of three years. - Noun Feminine - greek