Definition of Holofernes

1. Noun. (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith.

Category relationships: Apocrypha
Generic synonyms: Full General, General

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holofernes

Holmesian
Holmgren's wool test
Holmgren-Golgi canals
Holocanthus tricolor
Holocaust
Holocaust denial
Holocaust denier
Holocaust deniers
Holocene
Holocene epoch
Holocentridae
Holocentrus
Holocentrus ascensionis
Holocentrus bullisi
Holocentrus coruscus
Holofernes
Holothuria
Holothuria edulis
Holothuridae
Holothuroidea
Holstein
Holstein-Friesian
Holstein-Lewis fracture
Holt
Holt-Oram syndrome
Holter
Holter monitoring
Holthouse
Holthouse's hernia
Holton

Literary usage of Holofernes

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

1. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Judith, half-length, with the head of holofernes in a charger ; her maid looking on, and a soldier in armour asleep. Painted about 1510 (? ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"holofernes now attacks the Jewish people, who had recently returned from ithe captivity ... holofernes directs his main attack upon the fortress Bethulia, ..."

3. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"After an interval he appoints holofernes general over his army, and sends him against those nations which had refused their aid, with orders to spare none ..."

4. Woman; Her Position, Influence, and Achievement Throughout the Civilized by William C. King (1902)
"SLAYER OF THE ASSYRIAN GENERAL holofernes. / I \ HE little state of Palestine was the only available highway between JL those two great ancient empires, ..."

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