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Definition of Genesis

1. Noun. A coming into being.

2. Noun. The first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers.

Definition of Genesis

1. n. The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.

Definition of Genesis

1. Proper noun. The first of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the first book in the Torah. ¹

2. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek female given name) of American usage since the 1980s. ¹

3. Proper noun. The video game console Mega Drive by Sega. ¹

4. Noun. The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Genesis

1. an origin [n GENESES] - See also: origin

Medical Definition of Genesis

1. The beginning of a process. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genesis

generifications generitype generitypes generosities generosity generous generously generousness generousnesses genes

genesee epoch geneses genesial genesial cycle genesiology genesis (current term) genethics genethliac genethliacal genethliacs

genethlialogy genetic genetic abnormality genetic algorithm genetic algorithms genetic amplification genetic block

Literary usage of Genesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"genesis and Archaeology.— This subject is of importance because of its bearing on the historical value of genesis. For an adequate consideration of the ..."

2. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1921)
"ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES ON genesis B The vexed question as to the originality of the genesis B poet may fairly be considered as reopened since Professor ..."

3. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"CHAPTER XVII "genesis B" genesis B (11. 235-851) retells the story of the overthrow of the rebel angels, and then passes on to the tale of the temptation ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Now this is not the cosmogonical part of the account in genesis. On genesis i. 1-19, containing the cosmogony, he does not report as an expert, ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"1895; Unity of genesis, 1895. (Professor Green waa the representative ... 1890; E. Kautzsch and A. Socin, Die genesis mit äusserer Unterscheidung der ..."

6. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"... JULIEN (Presented by title before the Academy, 7 April, 1914) CONTENTS Page Introduction The genesis of talc 25 The genesis of antigorite 26 Formation ..."

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