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noun

Genesis n.

The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination. "The origin and genesis of poor Sterling's club."

The first book of the Old Testament; so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.

(Geom.) Same as Generation.

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... stormy deep of thought heaving forever beneath the conflict of windy dogmas. He laid by his old sermon. He put back a pile of old commentators with their eyes and mouths and hearts full of the dust of the schools. Then he opened the book of Genesis at the eighteenth chapter and read that remarkable argument of Abraham's with his Maker in which he boldly appeals to first principles. He took as his text, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" and began to write his sermon, ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... use of the blackboard and objects, the lessons in Bible order, beginning with Genesis, are taught in a way that the child can see them as well as hear them, and thus be able to ...

— Rosa's Quest - The Way to the Beautiful Land • Anna Potter Wright

... the reason that a full account of the whole adventures of the expedition is being published as a supplement from the pen of our own special correspondent. Some general indications will therefore suffice. Having described the genesis of their journey, and paid a handsome tribute to his friend Professor Challenger, coupled with an apology for the incredulity with which his assertions, now fully vindicated, had been received, he gave the actual course of their journey, carefully withholding such information ...

— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

... the Book of Genesis (xii. 10) and the administration of Joseph. The annals of the Greeks and Hebrews agree in the early arts and plenty of Egypt: but this antiquity supposes a long series of improvement; and Warburton, who ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... genesis of the story; and, in carrying out my programme, I have endeavoured to convey by means of natural incidents and conversations between the characters portrayed, the most recent and reliable scientific information respecting the moon and Mars; together with other ...

— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

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