Definition of elite

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Elite (n.) A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society..

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Ottrelite :: Ottrelite (n.) A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales. It is characteristic of certain crystalline schists.
Hebrew :: Hebrew (n.) An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew..
Friar :: Friar (n.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary..
Pimelite :: Pimelite (n.) An apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. It is a hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron..
Calced :: Calced (a.) Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.
Ishmaelite :: Ishmaelite (n.) A descendant of Ishmael (the son of Abraham and Hagar), of whom it was said, His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him..
Leviratical :: Leviratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother..
Phonolite :: Phonolite (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone..
Exodus :: Exodus (n.) A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place..
Delitescence :: Delitescence (n.) The sudden disappearance of inflammation.
Scheelite :: Scheelite (n.) Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization..
Canaanite :: Canaanite (n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt..
Ishmaelite :: Ishmaelite (n.) One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast.
Nephelite :: Nephelite (n.) A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash..
Elite :: Elite (n.) A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society..
Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..
Preraphaelite :: Preraphaelite (n.) One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.
Phyllite :: Phyllite (n.) A mineral related to ottrelite.
Roselite :: Roselite (n.) A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite..
Samson :: Samson (n.) An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength..
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