Apocalypse

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Revelation \Rev`e*la"tion\, n. [F. r['e]v['e]lation, L.
     revelatio. See {Reveal}.]
     1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others
        what was before unknown to them.
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     2. That which is revealed.
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     3. (Theol.)
        (a) The act of revealing divine truth.
        (b) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
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                  By revelation he made known unto me the mystery,
                  as I wrote afore in few words.    --Eph. iii. 3.
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     4. Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon,
        containing the prophecies of St. John; the {Apocalypse} or
        {Book of Revelation} or {The Revelation of Saint John}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apocalypse \A*poc"a*lypse\, n. [L. apocalypsis, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
     uncover, to disclose; ? from + ? to cover, conceal: cf. F.
     apocalypse.]
     1. (Eccl.) One of a numerous class of writings proceeding
        from Jewish authors between 250 b. c. and 150 a. d., and
        designed to propagate the Jewish faith or to cheer the
        hearts of the Jewish people with the promise of
        deliverance and glory; or proceeding from Christian
        authors of the opening centuries and designed to portray
        the future.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. Specifically, the revelation delivered to St. John, in the
        isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century,
        forming the last book of the New Testament (called
        Revelation or the Apocalypse).
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     3. Anything viewed as a revelation, especially one that is
        highly significant for the person receiving it; a
        disclosure. Often used of a realization or revelation that
        changes a person's goals or style of life.
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              The new apocalypse of Nature.         --Carlyle.
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     4. the final battle between good and evil, as foreseen in
        Saint John's Apocalypse; the time when God conquers the
        powers of evil, attended by cataclysmic cosmic events, and
        sometimes thought of as the end of the world; an
        Armageddon.
        [PJC] Apocalyptic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apocalypse
       n 1: a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers
            of evil
       2: the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary
          descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and
          evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John
          the apostle [syn: {Revelation}, {Revelation of Saint John
          the Divine}, {Book of Revelation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "apocalypse":
     actuarial prediction, afflatus, baring, direct communication,
     disclosing, disclosure, discovering, discovery, divine inspiration,
     divine revelation, envisioning, epiphany, expose, exposition,
     exposure, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing,
     foresight, foretelling, guesswork, improbability, inspiration,
     laying bare, manifestation, mystical experience, mysticism, omen,
     oracle, patefaction, precognition, prediction, prefiguration,
     prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment,
     preshowing, presignifying, prevision, probability, prognosis,
     prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus,
     removing the veil, revealing, revealment, revelation, showing up,
     showup, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, stripping,
     theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, uncloaking,
     uncovering, unfolding, unfoldment, unmasking, unveiling,
     unwrapping, vaticination, vision
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Apocalypse
     the Greek name of the Book of Revelation (q.v.).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Apocalypse, uncovering, revelation