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- Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
How To Use Ussher In A Sentence
- Tournament organiser Ussher Watson will take late entries for the junior events this evening at Belfast 647934.
- The YEC of Answers in Genesis is not the same thing as the systematic calculations of biblical scholars like Ussher. Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?
- Niece and (kunject a bit now!) our own familiars, Billyhealy, Bally-hooly and Bullyhowley, surprised in an indecorous position by the Sigurd Sigerson Sphygmomanometer Society for bled-prusshers. Finnegans Wake
- Dr Michael Ussher who led the team from St George's University of London, said: "These results are very encouraging.
- In Hindi, a man who behaves wickedly is described as behaving like Ravana, and the effigies of Ravana that are burnt at Dusshera mark the triumph of good over evil.
- Eusebius had mentioned seven Epistles, but Ussher -- deceived by a mistake on the part of St. Jerome -- exscinded the Epistle to Polycarp, and condemned it as spurious. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
- From the point of view of the Ulster church, Ussher's most significant contribution was his book, A discourse of the religion anciently professed by the Irish and Brittish, published in 1631.
- Besides the narrow endemics listed above, characteristic birds of the escarpment forests and woodlands include red-crested turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus), red-backed mousebird (Colius castanotus) (both endemic to Angola), mottled spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), batlike spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus), red-tailed palm thrush (Cichladusa ruficauda), and yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia concreta). Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
- His counterpart, James Ussher, Protestant archbishop of Armagh from 1625, returned the compliment, drawing up with his fellow bishops in 1626 an uncompromising attack upon the Roman Catholic church declaring it to be superstitious, idolatrous, erroneous, heretical and apostatical.
- In November of that year the newly appointed Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, and his suffragan bishops issued a statement declaring that the ‘religion of papists is superstitious and idolatrous erroneous and heretical.’