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Part of Speech: Noun

Having a smooth surface, as if polished.

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baal

Part of Speech: noun

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1. The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.

2. The whole class of divinities to whom the name was applied.

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To us it may seem that the sudden denunciation of a Christian ceremony, even what may be deemed a perverted Christian ceremony, as sheer " idolatry," equivalent to the worship of serpents, bulls, or of a foreign Baal in ancient Israel- was a step calculated to confuse the real issues and to provoke a religious war of massacre. - "John Knox and the Reformation", Andrew Lang.
There were four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal in the community, and only one Presbyterian; that is, if Isaac was a Presbyterian, which I reckon he was, but it don't say. - "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories", Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 18, 2009.
One of these was Baal- ... - "Patriarchal Palestine", Archibald Henry Sayce.

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