Antiochus IV

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noun

Antiochus Epiphanes, died 164? b.c., king of Syria 175–164?.

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How to use Antiochus IV in a sentence

For hydration, an IV would have been effective, as CIA medical officers conceded.
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“While IV infusion is safe and effective,” one officer wrote, rectal hydration could be used as a form of behavior control.
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Meanwhile, Beth is working from inside the hospital to secure the drugs Carol needs and to keep her hooked up to an IV drip.
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Mixner would insert it via an IV and hold his friend until the drip was completed.
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He is described by FrontPageAfrica as having become so angry he ripped the IV lines from his arms.
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Ladislaus IV, king of Poland, died, aged 80; universally respected for all those virtues which should grace a throne.
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And after Antiochus had ravaged Egypt, in the hundred and forty- third year, he returned and went up against Israel.
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And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people should be one: and every one should leave his own law.
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That is, they suffered not the power of Antiochus, that man of sin, to abolish the law and religion of God.
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Henry IV of France even invented one for his army, and others worked a little on the idea from time to time.
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British Dictionary definitions for Antiochus IV

Antiochus IV

noun

?215–164 bc, Seleucid king of Syria (175–164), who attacked the Jews and provoked the revolt of the Maccabees

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