Cardinal vs Rebirth - What's the difference?
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Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
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* Sir Thomas Browne
* Drayton
(nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
A number indicating quantity, or the size of a set, e.g., one, two, three.
*1920 , (Bertrand Russell), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy , p.83:
*:This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals'. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite ' cardinals is .
(lb) A word used to represent a cardinal number; a cardinal numeral.
*2005 , , (w, Wheelock's Latin) , 6th ed. revised, p.97:
*:The commonest numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals ".
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Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See ) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
A shade of scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock.
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A woman's short cloak with a hood.
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*:Where's your cardinal ! Make haste.
Mulled red wine.
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Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.
* 1989 , Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality , page 35:
Revival, reinvigoration.
* 2009 , Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century :
Spiritual renewal.
* 2000 , Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments , page 132:
* 2011 , Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ , page 233:
As nouns the difference between cardinal and rebirth
is that cardinal is a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set, e.g., one, two, three. See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number while rebirth is reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.As an adjective cardinal
is of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.cardinal
English
(wikipedia cardinal)Adjective
(en adjective)- a cardinal rule
- But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
- the cardinal intersections of the zodiac
- Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
- a cardinal mark
Noun
(en noun)Friday's Business, passage=His uncle, a Cardinal , engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart,
Derived terms
* cardinal bird * cardinal concern * cardinal number * cardinal fish * cardinal flower * cardinally * cardinal numeral * cardinal point * cardinal spider * cardinal symptom * cardinal virtue * cardinal vowels * cardinalate * cardinality * cardinalship * incardinateSee also
* * Contrast with ordinal (numbers) * (abbreviation)Anagrams
* ----rebirth
English
Noun
(en noun)- A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgit? which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes,
- And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before,
- The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.
- Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.