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Bel   /bɛl/   Listen
noun
Bel  n.  The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal.



Bel  n.  A thorny rutaceous tree (AEgle marmelos) of India, and its aromatic, orange-like fruit; called also Bengal quince, golden apple, wood apple. The fruit is used medicinally, and the rind yields a perfume and a yellow dye.



Bel  n.  A unit of sound intensity equal to ten decibels.






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"Bel" Quotes from Famous Books



... in dem Anfang der Vierzig stand. Das Amtsleben hatte ihm das ganze bayrische[4-9] Wappen, den Lwen mitsamt den blauweien Weckschnitten derart ins[4-10] Gesicht gestempelt, da kaum noch eine Spur des eigentlichen Menschen zu sehen war, der in frheren Jahren nicht so ganz bel[4-11] gewesen sein mochte.—Er hatte lange zu thun, bis er seine Siebensachen bei einander hatte. Nachgerade hatte er sich an so viele Bedrfnisse gewhnt, und vorsorglich fr alle Zukunft wanderte[4-12] in das Rnzlein, das er noch aus alten Tagen besa, eine ganze Haushaltung nebst einer ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel

... Corelli published his first collection of pieces for the violin, and in these are found what are practically about the first examples of a well-developed lyric melody, of the kind we now mean when we speak of "bel canto"—the type of melody made the very crux of the art of Italian singing. This impassioned, sustained, and expressive melody took with wonderful rapidity and was almost immediately adopted into opera, the ideal of which in the beginning had been that of an artistic and dramatically ...
— The Masters and their Music - A series of illustrative programs with biographical, - esthetical, and critical annotations • W. S. B. Mathews

... characters; but all seemed equally gay, and talked equally fast. There had been a dressed rehearsal of "The Fair Penitent," and of "The Romp;" and all the spectators and all the actors were giving and receiving exuberant compliments. Vivian knew many of the party,—some of them bel-esprits, some fashionable amateurs; all pretenders to notoriety, either as judges or performers. In the midst of this motley group, there was one figure who stood receiving and expecting universal homage: she was dressed as "The Fair ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth

... the Old Testament and Herodotus, can be termed direct sources; the rest simply reproduce extracts from other works, notably from Ctesias, the contemporary of Xenophon, from Berosus, a priest of the temple of Bel in Babylonia, who lived about the time of Alexander the Great, or shortly after, and from Apollodorus, Abydenus, Alexander Polyhistor, and Nicolas of Damascus, all of whom being subsequent to Berosus, either quote the latter ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow

... ancients; therefore they are greater orators and greater poets." La Motte, Fontenelle, Boileau, and Malebranche carried on this battle, which was taken up by the Encyclopaedists, and when Du Bos published his daring book, Jean Jacques le Bel published a reply to it (1726), in which he denied to sentiment its claim to judge of art. Thus Cartesianism could not possess an Aesthetic of the imagination. The Cartesian J.P. de Crousaz (1715) found the beautiful to consist in what is approved of, ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce


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