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NOUN
- tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds
How To Use Nyssa In A Sentence
- Already in the third century, St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, in his metaphrase, then Gregory of Nyssa, in eight homilies, later Hugh of St. Victor, in nineteen homilies, set forth the wisdom of Qoheleth as truly celestial and Divine. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica Marshall.), red maple, and sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum (L.) DC.) occupied the subcanopy, and mountain laurel dominated the understory.
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- St. Gregory of Nyssa, went astray on individual points; the former in regard to the baptism of heretics, the latter in the matter of apocatastasis. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Following St. Gregory of Nyssa's account, Brandon labels that something as "interposition" and fleshes out a bit about what that meant for Gregory. Archive 2007-05-01
- Valley dominants are tupelo (Nyssa aquatica), oak (Quercus spp.), and bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
- River swamp forests of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) and oak-dominated bottomland hardwood forests provide important wildlife corridors and habitat. Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)
- For it is only when we discover the living link which bound them to the Apostolic Tradition of which they are witnesses, that we shall understand their writings and establish the heterodoxy of some passages, as for instance, the Origenistic apocatastasis in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Nyssa sylvatica oaks odd plants oenothera Missouriensis oil insecticides okra old-fashioned gardens Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
- Tillemont was of opinion that the dear brother Gregory referred to in this letter is Gregory of Nyssa; but Maran points out that the events referred to are the same as those described in Letter xxxii., and supposes the word episcopus to have been inserted by a commentator. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works