Biblical vs Reek - What's the difference?
biblical | reek |
Of or relating to the Bible.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 In accordance with the teachings of the Bible (according to some interpretation of it).
Very great; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.
A strong unpleasant smell.
Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
(figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
(Ireland) A hill; a mountain.
As an adjective biblical
is of or relating to the bible.As a noun reek is
a strong unpleasant smell or reek can be (ireland) a hill; a mountain.As a verb reek is
(archaic|intransitive) to be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.biblical
English
Alternative forms
* BiblicalAdjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
- Tithing is both a quranic and biblical virtue.
- of biblical''' proportions''; ''with '''biblical fury
Quotations
(English Citations of "biblical")Antonyms
* unbiblicalCoordinate terms
* quranic, tripitakan, Vedic, AvestanDerived terms
* biblical proportions * biblical studies * know someone in the biblical sensereek
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rek, ‘smoke, fog’, Albanian regj ‘to tan’).Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology , s.vv. “*raukiz”, “*reukanan”(Leiden: Brill, 2003), 299:303.Noun
(-)- As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) reken ‘to smoke’, from (etyl) . See above.Verb
(en verb)- You reek of perfume.
- Your fridge reeks of egg.
- The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.