Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ancient Egyptian god whose annual death and resurrection personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A principal Egyptian god, personifying the power of good and the sunlight, united in history and in worship in a sacred triad with Isis as his wife and Horus as their child.
- noun [NL.] In zoology, a genus of hymenopterous insects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Myth.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called
Apis . Cf.Serapis .
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- proper noun The
Egyptian god of thedead and of theunderworld .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of Isis; father of Horus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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According to Hellanicus, if a person had in Egypt made inquiry about the term Osiris, he would not have been understood: for the true name was [300] Usiris.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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The Knef of the Egyptians, their Oshiret and Ishet, which we call Osiris and Isis, are neither less ingenious nor ridiculous.
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Egyptians, had fought against Oshiret, whom we call Osiris, and cut him to pieces.
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Oshireth, whom we call Osiris, does, together with Isheth, or Isis, all the good of which he is capable.
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Now the court of Osiris is going to judge the rulers of Egypt, from the founding father of the country,
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It has been said that of the component elements of his hieroglyphical name, Isis is the first, and that the name Osiris really signifies the "Eye of Isis."
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After the name Osiris comes the deceased person's own name.
Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English Rudolf Steiner 1893
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But on this one night of the year, that of the feast of him whom we call Osiris, but whom other nations have known and know by different names, it is given to us once more to be mortal for an hour, and, though we be but shadows, to renew the loves and hates of our long-perished flesh.
Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Divinities, one the Sun, whom they called Osiris, and the other the
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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A soft-spoken man whose trim physique and soft smile belie his 54 years, Roddy, together with his wife, Gail, turned his avocation of mentoring tough kids into a nonprofit outfit called Osiris that works with about 35 kids annually at the Hennepin County Home School, a detention facility for teens.
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