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One of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo
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Galilean \Gal`i*le"an\, a. [L. Galilaeus, fr. Galilaea Galilee, Gr. ?: cf. F. galil['e]en.] Of or relating to Galilee.
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Generically, a Galilean is an inhabitant of Galilee . Historically, a Galilean dialect of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic was spoken there. Later, the term was used to refer to the early Christians , among others by the Roman emperors Julian and Marcus Aurelius ...
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Counting Mahnmut, there were five Galilean moravecs in the pressurized gathering chamber atop the slab zone.
Sound-speech was the most secure form of communication in the Galilean system, and even the armored, hard-vac Io worker had been retrofitted to accommodate it.
The sun itself looked significantly smaller than the sun seen from Earth in old video-records, but it was immensely larger and brighter and warmer than any sun known by Galilean moravecs in the last two thousand e-years.
Mahnmut knew, incorporated visualizations of radio frequencies and magnetic field lines, neither common to old-style humans, which made a lot more sense for a moravec working in the hard radiation fields of Galilean space.
It had taken the old Galilean, Zebedee, many years of hard work to gain a position of respect among his Judean comrades.
Chapter 2 Galilean fishing crews generally plied their trade at night.
He longed for the lush vegetation, the villas and orchards which were more typical of Galilean country.
Chapter 8 The Galilean night rang with the sounds of music and laughter.
The man now on the throne of the Galilean and Perean tetrarchy, Herod Antipas, was a son of the notorious Herod the Great, arch-maniac of Jewish legend.
It was a lonely young man who, today, walked along the shore of the Galilean sea.
Chapter 4 Stars hung like tiny, vivid lanterns in the blackness above the lonely Galilean terrain.
Upon learning, therefore, that the accused was a Galilean, he had sent him to Herod Antipas, at that time also in Jerusalem, in hopes he would handle a problem which was clearly under his jurisdiction.
It was flooded with the most enormous school of Galilean silver the crew had ever seen.
The angle of their heads, and the way they spoke with one another showed they marveled that such profound words could have been heralded by a Galilean fisherman.
But he was still a Galilean, not educated in the more intellectual schools of Jerusalem or Judea.