brill
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1. brill - Noun
2. brill - Adjective
3. Brill - Proper noun
Meaning
A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.
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A college of priests called "tree bearers" (dendrophoroi) cut down a tree, Jaime Alvar, Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras, translated by Richard Gordon (Brill, 2008), p. 288–289.
Denis MacEoin, The Sources for Early Bābī Doctrine and History (Leiden: Brill, 1992), 88. Establishing the true text of the works that are still extant, as already noted, is not always easy, and some texts will require considerable work.
André Wink, Al-Hind, the Making of an Indo-Islamic World, Brill, 2004, p. 35. ISBN 90-04-09249-8.
Benko, Stephen, The virgin goddess: studies in the pagan and Christian roots of mariology, BRILL, 2004, note 111 on pp. 63 - 4, and p. 175. Her Eleusinian mysteries were open to initiates of any gender or social class.
Geoff R. Webb, Mark at the Threshold: Applying Bakhtinian Categories to Markan Characterisation, (BRILL, 2008) page 110-111.
Brill, 2007 He failed in his aspiration to be anointed archbishop but the German hegemony he established over the Baltic would last for seven centuries.