Crossword clues for dorcas
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Greek dorkas "gazelle, deer." Dorcas Society "ladies' meeting to make clothes for the poor" (1832) is from Acts ix:36-41.
Wikipedia
Dorcas (, Dorkás; Ṭabītā) was a disciple who lived in Joppa, referenced in the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.
Acts recounts that when she died, she was mourned by "all the widows...crying and showing (Peter) the robes and other clothing that she had made while she was still with them" (Acts 9:39). The Greek construct used in this passage indicates that the widows were the recipients of her charity, but she may also have been a widow herself. It is likely that she was a woman of some means, given her ability to help the poor. The disciples present called upon Peter, who came from nearby Lydda to the place where her body was being laid out for burial, and raised her from the dead.
This narrative concerning Tabitha/Dorcas indicates her prominence in the community at Joppa. This might also be indicated by the fact that Peter took the trouble to come to her from a neighbouring city, when requested by the community members.
The name Dorcas is a Greek translation of the Aramaic name Tabitha, meaning " gazelle". One species of gazelle is now known as the dorcas gazelle.
Dorcas may refer to:
- Dorcas, a biblical character
- Dorcas, one of the brides (played by Julie Newmar) in the 1954 movie musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
- Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas), a species of small antelope
- Lemuel Dorcas or Doctor Dorcas, a Marvel Comics character
- Dorcas Society, a charity providing clothing for the needy
Usage examples of "dorcas".
Martha Carrier, Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar, Mary Bradbury, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Reed, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Eames, Mary Lacey, Ann Foster, and Abigail Hobbs stood convicted of practicing witchcraft.
General Court voted in October that the conviction and attainders of George Burroughs, John Proctor, George Jacobs, John Willard, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Mary Easty, Sarah Wildes, Abigail Hobbs, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Martha Carrier, Abigail Faulkner, Anne Foster, Rebecca Eames, Mary Post, Mary Lacey, Mary Bradbury, and Dorcas Hoar be reversed.
Dorcas: Stay behind Michael just as you are and keep your arms tight around him and your legs straight behind you.
Rebecca Nurse and Dorcas Good were taken to jail, the villagers remained in the meetinghouse to listen to the Thursday lecture day sermon from their former pastor, Deodat Lawson, hoping for an explanation of their crisis.
Dorcas organized younger nomes to dig drainage trenches and rigged up a few of the big lightbulbs for heat.
Some of the nomes found Dorcas painstakingly levering it along across the quarry floor, one link at a time.
Dorcas pegged her jockey cap on the head of a marble statue of the great local hero, Smuggler Jim Biggins, and jamming her red hair behind her ears, squared her shoulders and got down to the serious business of twiddling dials.
Human-Conqueror explosives attack aimed at the Mrachani diplomats on Dorcas, remember?
I wanted to sit by the fire, sipping Ovaltine, writing to Dorcas and Jonas.
Besides which, the pathways he had available back at the Overclan Complex would be better for getting to the bottom of whatever was happening on Dorcas.
Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison.
That little helpless, groping, wailing creature was now the Dorcas Brandon, the mistress of the grand old mansion and all its surroundings, who was the heroine of the splendid matrimonial compromise which was about to reconcile a feud, and avert a possible lawsuit, and, for one generation, at least, to tranquillise the troubled annals of the Brandons and Wylders.
The Cavatina was supposed to have gone directly to Dorcas, not come out here looking for him.
The Claw had returnednot the Claw destroyed by Ascian artillery, nor even the Claw I had given the chiliarch of Typhon's Praetorians, but the Claw of the Conciliator, the gem I had found in my sabretache as Dorcas and I walked down a dark road beside the Wall of Nessus.
The Claw had returned--not the Claw destroyed by Ascian artillery, nor even the Claw I had given the chiliarch of Typhon's Praetorians, but the Claw of the Conciliator, the gem I had found in my sabretache as Dorcas and I walked down a dark road beside the Wall of Nessus.