Word Finder - eve

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The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

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Evening, night.

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The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced

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the eve of a scientific discovery

On Christmas Eve, we sit in front of the fire and take turns reading Christmas stories.

It was the eve of St. Nicholas, the fifth of December, 1820.

The service on Christmas Eve day was, of course, about Jesus.

I want her ready for this eve, Memon ordered.

On the eve of the fray Papineau sought safety in flight, followed by the leading spirits of the movement.

He spent the autumn at Venice, and was well enough on Christmas Eve to conduct his early symphony (composed in 1833) at a private performance given at the Liceo Marcello.

On the eve of war the university and middle-school students had five or six newspaper organs of their own - notably Jugoslavija in.

By her curiosity Eve is undone.

We didn't find out untill new years eve.

From October to Christmas Eve, stores both online and brick-and-mortar will be offering great deals on these hot gifts and many others.

The general political outlook in Italy was of the gloomiest, and the country was on the eve of the catastrophe of foreign invasion.

But almost immediately after the king's death Anne of Austria appointed him to the coveted post on All Saints' Eve, 1643.

The Key of Truth teaches that after the fall Adam and Eve and their children were slaves of Satan until the advent of the newly created Adam, Jesus Christ.

Tired again - wakeful night - I think both Eve & Jack.

Why am l up at 11.45 PM xmas eve you may well ask.

His allegoric use of the apple to represent sin and tempation was drawn from the biblical story of Adam and Eve.

Ever since I was young, we've hung a stocking from the mantel on Christmas Eve.

Pam invited her friends over on New Years Eve to celebrate with a Harry Potter movie marathon.

Yet, every year, it creeps up on people who find themselves in the checkout line at midnight on the eve of the holiday picking up whatever is left over to get for that person you forgot.

On the eve of the Revolution Babeuf was in the employ of a land surveyor at Roye.

Speaking at Johannesburg on the eve of his departure, he recommended to all concerned the promotion of the material prosperity of the country and the treatment of Dutch and British on an absolute equality.

As a memorial of this you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, on the 14th day at eve until the 21st day at eve; when children shall ask what this service means, you shall say that it is the Passover of the Lord.

In 1802, on the eve of Lord Lake's Mahratta war, his chemical knowledge enabled him to render a signal service to the administration by making available a large quantity of gunpowder which damp had spoiled.

After remaining at the port just over a year the Highlanders were withdrawn, on Christmas Eve 1839.

To Adam and Eve, however, he is not unkind.

Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes.

She cleaned the table and then went out to the porch to remove an empty bird nest from the eve.

Thus the old Hindus chose the new and the full moon as days of sacrifice; the eve.

In 1890 matters were on the eve of a great change and wages fell, in most cases to a point 20% below the rates of 1885.

The Meditations were written, it is evident, as occasion offered - in the midst of public business, and on the eve of battles on which the fate of the empire depended - hence their fragmentary appearance, but hence also much of their practical value and even of their charm.

The oldest of the vigils is that of Easter Eve, those of Pentecost and Christmas being instituted somewhat later.

In the Roman Catholic Church the vigil is now usually celebrated on the morning of the day preceding the festival, except at Christmas, when a midnight mass is celebrated, and on Easter Eve.

The other vigils are recognized in the calendar (including those of the saints) and the rubric directs that "the collect appointed for any Holy-day that hath a Vigil or Eve, shall be said at the Evening Service next before."

Though not exempt from considerable danger, he passed in safety through the troubles of St Bartholomew's eve.

The prince of this region of darkness is Samael, the evil spirit, the serpent who seduced Eve.

The story in picturesque fashion makes Patrick challenge the royal authority by lighting the Paschal fire on the hill of Slane on the night of Easter Eve.

Holy orders are to be conferred on the Ember Saturdays, on the Saturday before Passion Sunday or on Holy Saturday (Easter Eve).

At Chancellorsville he displayed great intrepidity and energy, and on the eve of the battle of Gettysburg was appointed to succeed Hooker.

It is scarcely possible to imagine a higher effort of hand and eve than this nunome-zOgan displays, for while intricacy and elaborateness are carried to the very extreme, absolute mechanical accuracy is obtained.

But an artistic temperament was hardly that required of a king of Prussia on the eve of the Revolution; and Frederick the Great, who had employed him in various services - notably in an abortive confidential mission to the court of Russia in 1 780 - openly expressed his misgivings as to the character of the prince and his surroundings.

Driven to extremities, Clement consented to call a Consistory to consider the step, but on the very eve of the day set for its meeting he died (2nd of February 1769), not without suspicion of poison, of which, however, there appears to be no conclusive evidence.

A legend of his surreptitious bestowal of dowries upon the three daughters of an impoverished citizen, who, unable to procure fit marriages for them, was on the point of giving them up to a life of shame, is said to have originated the old custom of giving presents in secret on the Eve of St Nicholas, subsequently transferred to Christmas Day.

Melanchthon, who was for a moment carried away by the movement, partook, with several of his students, of the communion under both kinds, and on Christmas Eve a crowd invaded the church of All Saints, broke the lamps, threatened the priests and made sport of the venerable ritual.

According to this the patriarchs and Adam and Eve also appear at the death-bed, to praise their daughter, through whom they had been rescued from the curse of God; a Jew who touches the body loses both his hands, which are restored to him by the Apostles; and the body lies three days in the grave without corruption before it is taken up into heaven.

Charles was a warm advocate of "Scandinavianism" and the political solidarity of the three northern kingdoms, and his warm friendship for Frederick VII., it is said, led him to give half promises of help to Denmark on the eve of the war of 1864, which, in the circumstances, were perhaps misleading and unjustifiable.

On the eve of that army's offensive in May 1917, Capello, dissatisfied with the artillery preparation in the sector of the II.

It may eve nbe stacked without tying into sheaves, though this course involves greater expenditure of labour in carrying and afterwards in threshing.

He was one of the most trusted counsellors of Presidents Steyn and Kruger, and the ultimatum sent to the British on the eve of hostilities was recast by him.

By degrees, he obtains a full confession - not from the serpent, whose speech might not have been edifying, but from Adam and Eve.

Barton, Worcester and Tennant, considers this to be parallel to the story which may underlie the account of the failure of the beasts, and the success of the woman Eve, as a "help-meet" for Adam.