jeroboam

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC)
noun a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon)

Any one is made a priest, who wants to be so, as under Jeroboam. — Pascal's Pensées, Blaise Pascal
The Pequod’s signal was at last responded to by the stranger’s setting her own; which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville
Rehoboam was no Idolater; but when the people thought him an Oppressor; that Civil pretence carried from him ten Tribes to Jeroboam an Idolater. — Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

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