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| == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_192147" /> == | | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_81077" /> == |
| <p> (1): (n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified. </p> <p> (2): (n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of [[Mercury]] and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus. </p> <p> (3): (n.) The metal copper; - probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. </p> <p> (4): (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus [[Venus]] or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food. </p> | | <p> An interior planet of the solar system, revolving in an orbit outside that of [[Mercury]] and within that of the earth, nearly as large as the latter; is 67 millions of miles from the sun, round which it revolves in 224 days, while it takes 23¼ hours to rotate on its own axis; it is the brightest of the heavenly bodies, and appears in the sky now as the morning star, now as the evening star, according as it rises before the sun or sets after it, so that it is always seen either in the E. or the W.; when right between us and the sun it is seen moving as a black spot on the sun's disk, a phenomenon known as "Transit of Venus," the last instance of which occurred in 1882, and that will not occur again till after 105½ years. </p> |
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| == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_64091" /> ==
| | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_64539" /> == |
| <p> VE'NUS, n. L. ventus, venenum Eng. venom to poison, to fret or irritate. These affinities lead to the true origin of these words. The primary sense of the root is to shoot or rush, as light or wind. From light is derived the sense of white, fair, Venus, or it is from opening, parting and from rushing, moving, comes wind, and the sense of raging, fury, whence L. venenum, poison, that which frets or causes to rage. These words all coincide with L. venio, which signifies to rush, to fall, to happen venor, to hunt, &c. The [[Greeks]] had the same idea of the goddess of love, viz. that her name signified fairness, whiteness, and hence the fable that she sprung from froth, whence her Green name. </p> 1. In mythology, the goddess of beauty and love that is, beauty or love deified just as the Gaelic and Irish diana, swiftness, impetuosity, is denominated the goddess of hunting. 2. In astronomy, one of the inferior planets, whose orbit is between the earth and Mercury a star of brilliant splendor. 3. In the old chimistry, a name given to copper.
| | <p> '''Bibliography Information''' McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Venus (2)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/v/venus-2.html. [[Harper]] & Brothers. New York. 1870. </p> |
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| == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_81087" /> ==
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| <p> The [[Roman]] goddess of love, of wedded love, and of beauty (originally of the spring), and at length identified with the Greek Aphrodité ( <i> q. v </i> .); she was regarded as the tutelary goddess of Rome, and had a temple to her honour in the Forum. </p>
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| == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_64492" /> == | |
| <p> Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Venus'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/v/venus.html. [[Harper]] & Brothers. New York. 1870. </p> | |
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| <ref name="term_64492"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/venus Venus from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | | <ref name="term_64539"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/venus+(2) Venus from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> |
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]
An interior planet of the solar system, revolving in an orbit outside that of Mercury and within that of the earth, nearly as large as the latter; is 67 millions of miles from the sun, round which it revolves in 224 days, while it takes 23¼ hours to rotate on its own axis; it is the brightest of the heavenly bodies, and appears in the sky now as the morning star, now as the evening star, according as it rises before the sun or sets after it, so that it is always seen either in the E. or the W.; when right between us and the sun it is seen moving as a black spot on the sun's disk, a phenomenon known as "Transit of Venus," the last instance of which occurred in 1882, and that will not occur again till after 105½ years.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
Bibliography Information McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Venus (2)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/v/venus-2.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
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