Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	aaron_n	call_v	place_n	22	3	3.7316	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64364	Of idolatry a discourse, in which is endeavoured a declaration of, its distinction from superstition, its notion, cause, commencement, and progress, its practice charged on Gentiles, Jews, Mahometans, Gnosticks, Manichees Arians, Socinians, Romanists : as also, of the means which God hath vouchsafed towards the cure of it by the Shechinah of His Son / by Tho. Tenison ...	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1678 (1678)	Wing T704; ESTC R8	332,600	446

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sometime_o supereminent_o as_o i_o may_v so_o speak_v be_v use_v to_o signify_v a_o superior_a god_n who_o eye_n the_o sun_n be_v repute_v 303._o apis_n himself_o be_v refer_v by_o some_o in_o lucian_n 540._o to_o the_o celestial_a bull_n after_o the_o manner_n of_o the_o modern_a heathen_n who_o be_v upbraid_v by_o the_o father_n as_o worshipper_n of_o dead_a and_o wicked_a man_n reform_v or_o disguise_v their_o ancient_a theology_n and_o explain_v their_o superstition_n by_o natural_a thing_n but_o the_o proper_a egyptian_a apis_n be_v a_o prince_n and_o so_o be_v their_o osiris_n or_o as_o orpheus_n call_v bacchus_n 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d a_o legislator_n and_o no_o other_o than_o bacchus_n this_o herodotus_n testify_v in_o express_a word_n 165._o osiris_n say_v he_o in_o his_o euterpe_n be_v dionysus_n in_o the_o appellation_n of_o the_o greek_n diodorus_n siculus_n do_v 10._o after_o the_o same_o manner_n give_v the_o name_n of_o dionysus_n to_o osiris_n and_o he_o do_v 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