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handed-down

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

having been passed along from generation to generation

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handed down

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among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor Source: Internet

According to Gaskin, arguments in the case were completed on February 11, 2019; the Chief Justice only handed down a ruling last week Wednesday (February 12), one year later. Source: Internet

According to Jewish tradition, the Jewish calendar is calculated based on mathematical rules handed down from God to Moses at the moment the command was given to make sure that Passover always falls in the springtime. Source: Internet

After a near two-year wait, the Court of Appeal this morning handed down a judgement agreeing with the murder conviction and life sentence of the of the popular entertainer. Source: Internet

According to Pappus, "Apollonius, having completed Euclid's four books of conics and added four others, handed down eight volumes of conics." Source: Internet

A historic judgment condemning a discriminatory civil marriage law, passed in the 1980s that potentially marginalised 400 000 black women, was handed down in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Friday. Source: Internet

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