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| == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_191216" /> ==
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| <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The son or husband of [[Gaia]] (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years. </p> | | Uranus <ref name="term_81052" /> |
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| | <p> In the Greek mythology the son of [[Gaia]] (the Earth), and by her the father of the Titans; he hated his children, and at birth thrust them down to Tartarus, to the grief of Gaia, at whose instigation Kronos, the youngest born, unmanned him, and seized the throne of the Universe, to be himself supplanted in turn by his son Zeus. </p> |
| == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_64170" /> ==
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| <p> (Lat. Coelus), the heaven, in Greek mythology, was the progenitor of the whole line of [[Grecian]] gods. His first children were the Hecatonchires (Centimanes). [[Afterwards]] he begot, through G a, the Cyclops. These were imprisoned in [[Tartarus]] because of their great strength. This so moved their mother to anger that she incited her subsequently born children, the Titanes, against the father, who drove him from the throne of the earth, after Kronus (Saturnus), his younger son, had, with a diamond sickle, disqualified him for the-further production of children. The sea received the mutilated organs, which gave life to Venus. From the blood which was spilled there sprang the Giants, the Furies, and the Melian nymphs. See Smith, Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Biog. and Mythol. s.v. </p>
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| == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_81043" /> ==
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| <p> A planet, the outermost but one of the solar system, is 1770 millions of miles from the sun, takes 30,686 of our days, or 84 of our years, to revolve round it, has four times the diameter of the earth, and is accompanied by four moons; it was discovered in 1781 by Herschel, and called by him Georgium Sidus in honour of [[George]] III. </p>
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| | | <ref name="term_81052"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/uranus+(2) Uranus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> |
| <ref name="term_191216"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/uranus Uranus from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |
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| <ref name="term_64170"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/uranus Uranus from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_81043"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/uranus Uranus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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Uranus [1]
In the Greek mythology the son of Gaia (the Earth), and by her the father of the Titans; he hated his children, and at birth thrust them down to Tartarus, to the grief of Gaia, at whose instigation Kronos, the youngest born, unmanned him, and seized the throne of the Universe, to be himself supplanted in turn by his son Zeus.
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