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isis
/ˈaɪ.sɪs/
name 8noun 1
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4ADJ.
'beloved, all, controlled, joined, many, online, profane, terrorist
VERB + ISIS
bank, beat, combines, defected, go, going, helped, join
ISIS + NOUN
', defector, elias, fighter, fighters, mother, osiris, ov
PREP.
from, in, with
Definitions
name
1
An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic; also worshiped by (some) Greeks during the Hellenistic period and featured in Greek mythology
Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart
2
42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
3
A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.
Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
'Beloved Isis,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'
name
1
The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.
Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.
They had put in under the dappled shade of an overhanging willow a little down the left bank of the Isis.
name
1
Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis.
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Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart
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Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
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'Beloved Isis,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'
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Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.
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They had put in under the dappled shade of an overhanging willow a little down the left bank of the Isis.
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The terrorist threat is growing, the politicians and intelligence services say, due in part to the degradation of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the rising numbers of Isis fighters returning to E
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