We should never have known that priest meant originally an elder, unless we had traced it back to its original form presbyter, in which a Greek scholar at once recognizes the comparative of presbys, old.
Anhas in Sanskrit means sin, but it does so only because it meant originally throttling--the consciousness of sin being like the grasp of the assassin on the throat of his victim .
But the name of a thing, runs the argument, meant originallythat by which we know a thing.
Antrum, therefore, meant originally what is within or inside the earth or anything else.
Islâm meant originally humility or devotion; and all who humbled themselves before God, and were filled with real reverence, were called Moslim.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meant originally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
