In all probability, they argue, there was a man called Jesus, who said many helpful things, and led an exemplary life, and all the miracles and wonders represent the accretions of fond and pious ages.
Conceived at first as a religious drama, it received many new accretions as it traveled from country to country and from age to age.
When all the ore has been smelted, he throws into the furnace a basket full of litharge or hearth-lead, so that the metal which has remained in the accretions may run out with these when melted.
Then the master breaks out the whole of the mouth of the furnace with a crowbar, and with that other hooked bar, the rabble and the five-toothed rake, he extracts the accretions and the charcoal.
In old furnaces in which ore has been melted, as soon as the rocks have cooled the assistant chips away, with a spatula, the accretions which adhere to the walls, and then breaks them up with an iron hoe or a rake with five teeth.
When fluxes remain in the furnace and do not melt, they are not suitable; for this reason, accretions and slags are the most convenient for smelting, because they melt quickly.
The crowbar is somewhat similar to those generally used to chip off the accretions that adhere to the walls of the blast furnace.
The base concentrates are made from accretions formed when cakes are cast from base thorns or from the worst quality of slags.
Kayser declares these awkward accretions to be glosses of quite a late period.
It is a high estimate of tradition that leads to its being thus modernised; but in the process it is twisted and perverted, and set off with foreignaccretions in the most arbitrary way.
If he thus hopes for a purification from superstitious accretions of the places where Jehovah is worshipped, it is clear that he is not thinking of their total abolition.
What was in fact the collected accretions of centuries, was regarded by Ezra, and by all Israel, as Torah from God communicated by Moses, and therefore entitled to precedence over any Torah imparted to anyone else.
The result of each process was a mass of commentary on the Mishnah, and not merely commentary but accretions of every kind having any sort of connection with Judaism as a living religion.
The sudden wealth acquired by individuals in the Americas reacted psychologically to make the necessarily slow accretions of property in Spain an irksome prospect.
These accretions had been saved and taken care of by Mrs. Fluker, who was as staid and silent as he was mobile and voluble.
Yet, except in the natural increase of the latter, the accretions of worldly estate had been inconsiderable till now, when their oldest child, Marann, was some fifteen years old.
We shall be free to extricate it completely from all its accretionsof chance and circumstance and material events.
Gathering up and treasuring the old common inheritance of religion, and eliminating from it the accretions of superstition, the children of Abraham at one time stood alone, or almost alone, as adherents of a belief in one God the Creator.
All that I shall attempt to do is to peel off these accretions and to exhibit the god, as far as possible, in his primitive simplicity.
If we accept it, we may suppose that the mythical elements, which legend undoubtedly ascribed to Osiris, were later accretions which gathered about his memory like ivy about a ruin.
Around this segregation accumulated accretionsof opinion, layer on layer emanating from the mind of her mate.
And it is hard to separate these accretions from the original,--from the version, that is, that first appeared as an epic poem.
Porus acknowledged him for overlord, and received accretions of territory.
Since it was first an epic, there have been huge accretions to it: Whosever fancy it struck would add a book or two, with new incidents to glorify this or that locality, princely house, or hero.
Were the accretions of the bank at eight per cent.
A tree or animal grows by the life that is in it, but the accretions of wealth are from the efforts of intelligent energy outside of itself.
The accretionsare the irresistible result of the principle of usury.
It came to them by the accretionsof interest after the productive period of life was past.
They resist the payment when due, but when an officer is found willing to extend them before they are due all trouble is avoided and the accretions of interest are not interrupted for a day.
The rich should be limited in their accretions while the poor are lifted out of their poverty; but how can this be accomplished without interfering with individual liberty and our personal rights?
Under a high rate the gathering is rapid, under a low rate the accretions are slower, but the gathering into few hands is none the less sure.
Each successive stage diminishes the bulk of the Ignatian literature, which the educated mind accepts as genuine; till at length the true Ignatius alone remains, divested of the accretions which perverted ingenuity has gathered about him.
In the other two, there is, round this possible and probable nucleus, a mass of accretions of the most questionable character.
He earnestly maintains his adherence to the confessions of the Lutheran church, and regards it as the task of his life to disentangle the pure Lutheran doctrine from the accretions of scholastic metaphysics.
The subjoined table assigns to their several editions the successive accretions in their order as now published:-- Lines.
Among the accretions is to be found the famous passage beginning, "He that hath bent him o'er the dead.
The case of Sigurðr must be considered independently of the hero's youthful adventures, which, as we have seen, are probably to be regarded as later accretions to the story.
Biarki's origin in Hrólfs Saga Kraka; but these passages are usually regarded as accretions to the original stories.
These principles being dominant, theaccretions to the enormous fabric of interpretation went steadily on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accretions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
