Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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a. 1 Pertaining to Gadara. 2 Describing a headlong flight or rush (with reference to Matthew VIII.28).
Wikipedia
Gadarene may refer to:
- Of or relating to Gadara, an ancient town in Jordan
- Of or relating to a headlong rush, alluding to the Biblical "Gadarene swine"
- Gadarene swine – see Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac
- Gadarene Lake, Antarctica
- Gadarene Ridge, Antarctica
Usage examples of "gadarene".
I mean, sure, I'd rather not have to bow to Gadarene, just because I'm green.
Without looking back, I sensed the hulking, nervous figure of James Gadarene, hovering nearby, watching.
Still, unless I'm mistaken, Gadarene actually asked his God to go with me.
Ten hours of futile head-scratching, listening to the whining recriminations of Gadarene and Lum till my clock ran out and it was my own turn to melt away?
And the fanatics, Gadarene and Lum, setting them up to take initial blame.
And though Gadarene might have a motive to destroy UK, Lum wanted to "liberate slaves," not destroy them.
He strove hard to blame all his enemies -- Gadarene, Wammaker, Lum, and me.
Neo-Luddites like Gadarene will denounce all this from pulpits, gaining scads of angry new followers.
Joshua had decided to take the good news to the gentiles, so we were going to go across the lake to the town of Gadarene in the state of Decapolis.
I propose to pretty myself up and join the rest of you Gadarene swine in debauching myself magnificently to death.
It was true he had put the hex on the Gadarene swine, but that was in a good cause.
Professor Huxley has dealt exhaustively with the Gadarene Swine, showing that if Jesus himself loved his neighbours, he was at least a little careless about their property, which was in this instance their sole means of livelihood.
When Parson Martin tried to dismiss ghouls and the like as weak superstition he set him down with the Witch of Endor and the Gadarene swine and evil spirits by the dozen out of Holy Writ - cited all sorts of classical ghosts, appealed to the unvarying tradition of all nations and ages, and gave us a circumstantial account of a Pyrenean werewolf of his acquaintance that absolutely terrified the younger mids.
I pushed change into the outstretched hand of the little pay phone demon, which must be descended from Mammon by way of the Gadarene swine.
There is the instance of the Gadarene swine, where it certainly was not very kind to the pigs to put the devils into them and make them rush down the hill into the sea.