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(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic. quotations examples
Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart
2009, Behemoth, Defiling Morality ov Black God
(astronomy) 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid. examples
(uncommon) A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek quotations examples
Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
1924, Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light
'Beloved Isis,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'
1995, Iain Banks, Whit
(UK, especially Oxfordshire, otherwise dated) The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames. examples
Alternative letter-case form of ISIS quotations examples
The terrorist threat is growing, the politicians and intelligence services say, due in part to the degradation of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the rising numbers of Isis fighters returning to Europe.
2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer