Ephesian
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Ephesian
1350–1400; Middle English Effesian < Latin Ephesi ( us ) (< Greek Ephésios ) + -an
Example Sentences
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Sir Henry Dickens, 79, only living son of Novelist Charles Dickens, flayed in London one Carl E. Bechofer-Roberts who had written a novel, Ephesian, defaming his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost as well known is Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, when they knelt weeping on the shore after he had told them, "You . . . will see my face no more."
From Time Magazine Archive
A more conservative collection, Mary, Mother of God, edited by Braaten and Jenson, features several evangelical scholars striving to rehabilitate that Ephesian title.
From Time Magazine Archive
A more conservative collection, Mary, Mother of God, edited by Braaten and Jenson, features several evangelical scholars striving to rehabilitate that Ephesian title.
From Time Magazine Archive
Addressing the Ephesian elders at Miletus four years before, St Paul bade them “shepherd the Church of God.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
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