Nebuchadnezzar

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Nebuchadnezzar

(ˌnɛbjʊkədˈnɛzə)

(Brewing) a wine bottle, used esp for display, holding the equivalent of twenty normal bottles (approximately 520 ounces)

[C20: named after Nebuchadnezzar², from the custom of naming large wine bottles after Old Testament figures; compare jeroboam]

Nebuchadnezzar

(ˌnɛbjʊkədˈnɛzə) or

Nebuchadrezzar

(Bible) Old Testament a king of Babylon, 605–562 bc, who conquered and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Jews to Babylon (II Kings 24–25)

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Neb•u•chad•nez•zar

(ˌnɛb ə kədˈnɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-)

n.

1. Also, Neb`u•chad•rez′zar (-ˈrɛz ər) died 562? b.c., king of Babylonia 605?–562? B.C.: conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.

2. (sometimes l.c.) a bottle for wine holding 20 quarts (18.9 liters).

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Noun	1.	Nebuchadnezzar - (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC) Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar II Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible
	2.	nebuchadnezzar - a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display wine bottle - a bottle for holding wine

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Nebuchadnezzar

[ˌnebjʊkədˈnezəʳ] N → Nabucodonosor

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For truth and falsehood, in such things, are like the iron and clay, in the toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image; they may cleave, but they will not incorporate.

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"Behold Nebuchadnezzar!" exclaimed an old Puritan soldier, whose eyes flashed at the sight of the man they called the tyrant.

"Do you call him Nebuchadnezzar?" said Mordaunt, with a terrible smile; "no, it is Charles the First, the king, the good King Charles, who despoils his subjects to enrich himself."

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I'm in what I call THE stage, and all I desire is a listener, although he were deaf, to be as happy as Nebuchadnezzar.'

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Now, D'Artagnan, when he left Calais with his ten scamps, would have hesitated as little in attacking a Goliath, a Nebuchadnezzar, or a Holofernes as he would in crossing swords with a recruit or caviling with a landlady.

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But we did not take much further interest in the green growth, for one cannot live on grass like Nebuchadnezzar. That requires a special dispensation of Providence and peculiar digestive organs.

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As my bricks had been in a chimney before, though I did not read the name of Nebuchadnezzar on them, I picked out its many fireplace bricks as I could find, to save work and waste, and I filled the spaces between the bricks about the fireplace with stones from the pond shore, and also made my mortar with the white sand from the same place.

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This is what makes my blood tingle." And he turned over the pages of his Bible and read, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed- nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

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'faux air' of Nebuchadnezzar in the fields about you, that is certain: your hair reminds me of eagles' feathers; whether your nails are grown like birds' claws or not, I have not yet noticed."

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Drawing on the methodology established for earlier studies of court litigation procedure in Mesopotamian history--i.e., classification of cuneiform litigation records and attention to legal terminology as the basis for description of the adjudicatory process--Holtz (Yeshiva U.) surveys the adjudicatory procedures found in the records of the Neo-Babylonian period (employing a broad use of the term that includes texts that date to the reign of the Babylonian Kings from Nebuchadnezzar II onwards to Darius II and the earlier Achaemenid emperors).

Neo-Babylonian court procedure,

THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S exhibition Babylon: Myth And Reality provides a penetrating flash of insight to the ancient city during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC), its contribution to science and mathematics and the art, films and music it inspired.