Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- In the Bible, a young man who with Abednego and Meshach emerged unharmed from the fiery furnace into which they were thrown by Nebuchadnezzar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In metallurgy, same as
salamander , 10.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Metal.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from
Shadrach , one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun biblical One of the
captives in the Bible that came out of the fieryfurnace unharmed. - proper noun A male
given name of biblical origin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the end I would probably have voted for Mindbridge since the sex scenes are more entertaining than those in Shadrach in the Furnace (though of course in the counterfactual situation where I actually had a vote that year I would have been 10, so that particular factor would not have mattered so much to me).
Aminatou Haidar update nwhyte 2009
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Cat, whom you call Shadrach, to make off with that of your fat brother; yes, and even gave it to him after his own beast had been lamed by accident.
Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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The base was on the innermost planet, which the team had dubbed Shadrach: a roughly Mars-sized chunk of lifeless rock with a pair of moons, orbiting some five hundred million kilometers out from the center of the giant.
Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990
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Their Hebrew names were to them witnesses for God, mementoes of the faith of their fathers; hence the king, to destroy their influence, called Daniel, Belteshazzar, i.e. "the treasurer of the god Bel;" Hannaniah he called Shadrach, i.e. "the messenger of the king;" Mishael he called Meshach, i.e. "the devotee of the goddess Shesach."
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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He, and Sir Daniel Galbraith's adopted son -- Sir Daniel is Dr. Galbraith's uncle -- were my brother Dawne's great friends at Oxford, where the three of them were known as Shadrach,
The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand
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Over on his blog, Stuart Moore shows off some really nice Jon Proctor art for a project they haven’t sold to a publisher yet called Shadrach Stone.
Selling Shadrach 2007
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They sang "Shadrach," an account of the Bible story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
BYU NewsNet : Home 2009
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And looking just at hip hop, I haven't even mentioned the Beastie Boys '"Shadrach," which uses the fiery furnace story to explain the rap group's situation with its record label during the late 1980s.
The Michigan Daily 2008
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And looking just at hip hop, I haven't even mentioned the Beastie Boys '"Shadrach," which uses the fiery furnace story to explain the rap group's situation with its record label during the late 1980s.
The Michigan Daily 2008
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"Shadrach," he said, "I don't hardly know how to begin.
Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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