Definition of elite

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Elite (n.) A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society..

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Leviratical :: Leviratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother..
Delitescence :: Delitescence (n.) Concealment; seclusion; retirement.
Teraphim :: Teraphim (n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.
Phyllite :: Phyllite (n.) A mineral related to ottrelite.
Heritage :: Heritage (a.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge..
Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..
Roscoelite :: Roscoelite (n.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.
Daubreelite :: Daubreelite (n.) A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric irons.
Preraphaelite :: Preraphaelite (n.) One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
Nehushtan :: Nehushtan (n.) A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.
Ishmaelite :: Ishmaelite (n.) One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast.
Roselite :: Roselite (n.) A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite..
Nephelite :: Nephelite (n.) A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash..
Delitescency :: Delitescency (n.) Concealment; seclusion.
Exode :: Exode (n.) Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt..
Carmelite :: Carmelite (n.) A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.
Theocratical :: Theocratical (a.) Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites..
Phonolite :: Phonolite (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone..
Mosaic :: Mosaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions..
Exodus :: Exodus (n.) A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place..
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