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Athiest vs Athirst - What's the difference?

athiest | athirst |

As a noun athiest

is .

As an adjective athirst is

(archaic) thirsty.

athiest

English

Noun

(head)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2003 , title = Islam: Questions and Answers - Schools of Thought, Religions and Sects , author = Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman , quotee = Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid , volume = 8 , publisher = MSA Publication Limited , isbn = 9781861792914 , page = 89 , passage = The athiest' is destined to Hell fire in the Hereafter. This is because the ' athiest refuses the most basic belief which is the existance(SIC) and oneness of Allaah. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=xcPwGmYwCKUC&pg=PA89 }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2004 , title = Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right & Right Is Wrong , author = Alan Colmes , publisher = HarperCollins , isbn = 0060562978 , quotee = "Mr. S" (username) , page = 281 , passage = If you were an honest journelist(SIC) you would admit that you were an athiest and love to see a birth canal baby die with with(SIC) a shot of fermaldihide(SIC) in the brain. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=bXq-6gltFDgC&pg=PA281 }}

    athirst

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Thirsty.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
  • (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).

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