leviathan

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(senseid) A vast monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the most dangerous and powerful creature in the ocean.
(RQ:Coverdale Bible) alſo, wherin are thinges crepinge innumerable, both ſmall and greate beaſtes. There go the ſhippes ouer, and there is that Leuiathan, whom thou haſt made, to take his paſtyme therin.|footer=(w) in modern versions of the Bible.
(RQ:d'Anghiera Eden Newe Worlde)
(RQ:Spenser Complaints)
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Young Last Day)
(RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)
(RQ:London Sea-Wolf)
A thing which is monstrously great in size, strength, etc. (especially a ship); also, a person with great power or wealth.

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(RQ:Dekker Newes from Hell)
(RQ:Sanderson Sermons)
(RQ:Burke Noble Lord) is the Leviathan among all the creatures of the Crovvn. He tumbles about his unvvieldy bulk; he plays and frolicks in the ocean of the Royal bounty.
(RQ:Byron Childe Harold)
(RQ:De Quincey Works)'s returning sense of justice.
(RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop) to the astonished child, she brought forth specimens of the lesser fry in the shape of hand-bills, some of which were couched in the form of parodies on popular melodies, (..)
(RQ:Trollope Warden) named some sons of bishops, and grandsons of archbishops; men great in their way, who had redeemed their disgrace in the eyes of many by the enormity of their plunder; and then, having disposed of these leviathans, it descended to Mr Harding.
(RQ:Wells War of the Worlds) at the Martians again, and he saw the three of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their tripod supports were almost entirely submerged.
(RQ:Wired).
(senseid) ''Sometimes in the form'' Leviathan: based on the writings of (w), the political state, especially a domineering and totalitarian one.

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(RQ:Hobbes Leviathan), in latine (smallcaps). This is the generation of that great (smallcaps), or rather (to ſpeake more reverently) of that ''Mortall God'', to vvhich vvee ovve under the ''Immortall in Christianity|God'', our peace and defence.
(RQ:Locke Human Understanding) be asked vvhy; he vvill anſvver, Becauſe the Publick requires it, and the ''Leviathan'' vvill puniſh you, if you do not.
(RQ:Arendt Totalitarianism) Hobbes is interested in neither, but concerned exclusively with the political structure itself, and he depicts the features of man according to the needs of the Leviathan.
(senseid) (synonym of).
(RQ:Barnes Spirituall Sonnets) / Then glorious Captaine, our chiefe God and man, / Breake thou the Iavves of old Leuiathan.
Very large; enormous, gargantuan.
(RQ:Heller Catch-22)