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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and brimstone

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while brimstone is sulphur.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    brimstone

    English

    Noun

  • Sulphur.
  • The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
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  • (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
  • * 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)
    • You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!
  • * 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)
    • You're a brimstone idiot.
  • The butterfly of the Pieridae family.

    • Derived terms

    * fire and brimstone

    Quotations

    (dates and formatting needed) * 'Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' — Genesis, 19:24, King James Version * 'And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that {are} with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone .' — Ezekiel, 38:22 King James Version * 'For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.' — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene * 'Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone , and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.' — John Milton, Paradise Lost * 'Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone , and suchlike sweetmeats.' — Walter Scott, The Antiquary * '[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone , and used up as to bliss [...]' — Charles Dickens,Hard Times * 'Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.' — Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby * 'The brimstone , too, which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * 'But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man English intensifiers