elites's Usage Examples:

Here, between Ebal and Gerizim, Joshua made his last speech to the elders of the Israelites (Jos.

No allusions to Israelites in Egypt have yet been found on the monuments.

His inspiration may be traced in some measure to the Pre-Raphaelites and also to Blake, Shelley and Maeterlinck; but he found in his native Irish legend and life matter apt for his romantic and often elfin music, with its artful simplicities and unhackneyed cadences, and its elusive, inconclusive charm.

A huge car drawn by oxen, bearing the standard of the burgh, and carrying an altar with the host, this carroccio, like the ark of the Israelites, formed a rallying point in battle, and reminded the armed artisans that they had a city and a church to fight for.

The Friars of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel or Carmelites or Whitefriars came to London in 1241, and made their home on land between Fleet Street and the Thames given by Edward I.

It was in order to preserve the Israelites from errors and follies of this kind, and to prevent the possibility of such idolatry being established, that the dog was afterwards regarded with utter abhorrence amongst the Jews, and this feeling prevailed during the continuance of the Israelites in Palestine.

), would have no meaning to Israelites unless they had some connexion with and interest for contemporary life and thought.

An article on monastic arrangements would be incomplete without some account of the convents of the Mendicant or Preaching Friars, including the Black Friars or Domini cans, the Grey or Franciscans, the White or Carmelites, Y Friars.

The B'nai B'rith society has also co-operated largely with other Jewish philanthropic organizations in succouring distressed Israelites throughout the world.

She was educated with great strictness in the convent of the Carmelites in the Rue St Jacques at Paris.

Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover because in that month God brought out the Israelites from Egypt.

He is at Shechem or at Dothan; and when the brothers seek to slay him, Judah proposes that he should be sold to Ishmaelites, or Reuben suggests that he should be cast into a pit, where Midianites find and kidnap him (xxxvii.

Synonyms:

chosen, bon ton, beau monde, pick, technocrat, clerisy, elite group, high society, upper crust, elect, aristocracy, upper class, smart set, society, nobility, cream, intelligentsia, few,

Antonyms:

noble, dishonorableness, ignoble, more, no,