. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Meals. Di-O-nysi-a [-nishe-a] (L. fr. Gr.) = the feastof Bacchus. Di-O-uysi-US [-nishe-us] (L. fr. Gr. — of Diony-sus or Bacchus) the A-ie-op a-gite (Acts xvii. 34),an eminent Athenian (Areopagite ; Areopagus)converted to Christianity by the preaching of Eusebius makes him, on the authority ofDionysius, bishop of Corinth, to have been firstbishop of Athens. According to a later traditionhe suffered martyrdom at Athens. The writingsonce attributed to him are now confessed to be theproduction of some neo-Platonists of the sixth cen-tury. Di-O-
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Meals. Di-O-nysi-a [-nishe-a] (L. fr. Gr.) = the feastof Bacchus. Di-O-uysi-US [-nishe-us] (L. fr. Gr. — of Diony-sus or Bacchus) the A-ie-op a-gite (Acts xvii. 34),an eminent Athenian (Areopagite ; Areopagus)converted to Christianity by the preaching of Eusebius makes him, on the authority ofDionysius, bishop of Corinth, to have been firstbishop of Athens. According to a later traditionhe suffered martyrdom at Athens. The writingsonce attributed to him are now confessed to be theproduction of some neo-Platonists of the sixth cen-tury. Di-O-nysus (L. fr. Gr.) = Bacchus (3 Mc. ii. 29). Di-os-fO-rinthi-ns (fr. Gr.). Month. Di-Otre-pllCS [-feez] (Gr. Jove-nurtured, L. & S.),a professed Christian, ambitious and domineering,who resisted the Apostle Johns authority (3 Jn. 9,10). John, 3d Epistle of. Dis-ciple [dis-sipl] (fr. L. = learner, scholar, pu-pil). Christian ; Education. Discus (L. fr. Gr. = quoit), a circular plate ofstone or metal, made for throwing to a distance as. Discobolus or Quoit-pitcher. -vol. (Osterlev, Denk, der alien Kunst,no. 139.) an exercise of strength and dexterity. The discusor quoit was originally of stone (Homer, Pindar).Discobolus (L. fr. Gr.) = one who throws or pitchesthe discus. Pitching the discus was one of the prin-cipal gymnastic exercises (Games) of the Greeks, and was introduced among the Jews by the high-priest Jason 4 (2 Mc. iv. 14).Dis-eases. Medicine. Dish, the A. V. translation of the Heb. sephel(also translated bowl ), tsallahath or tsallachath,and kedrdh (also translated charger), also ( 23 ; Mk. xiv. 20) of the Gr. trublion (= a dish,bowl, for eating or drinking, Rbn. A7. T. Lex.). Ba-sin ; Meals. Dislian (Heb. = Dishon), youngest son of Seirthe Horite (Gen. xxxvi. 21, 28, 30; 1 Chr. i. 38, 42). * Dishon (Heb.) (Deut. xiv. 5, marg.). Pygarg. Dishou (Heb. antelope; see Pygarg). 1. Thefifth son of Seir (Gen. xxxvi. 21, 26, 30; 1 Chr. ).—2. The son of Anah and
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