daud

/ dɒd; dɔːd /

noun

1. a lump or chunk of something

Word History and Origins

Origin of daud¹

C18: from earlier dad to strike, of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Ali Salameh and Abu Daud also arrived at the Olympic Village to observe the attack from outside the fence.

From The Daily Beast

The chances that portraits of Daud and Saleh al-Kuwaiti will ever adorn a 200-shekel bill seem slim.

From The Daily Beast

Ibn Daud does not make use of creation to prove the existence of God, but neither does he posit eternal motion as Aristotle does.

From Project Gutenberg

And Maimonides does nothing more than repeat the effort of Ibn Daud in a more brilliant and masterly fashion.

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The above digression will make clear to us the position of Ibn Daud and his relation to Maimonides.

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Accordingly Ibn Daud follows his physical doctrines with a discussion of the soul.

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By the theory of exclusion Ibn Daud decides that the soul is substance in the sense in which we apply that term to "form."

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