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to make someone less angry or stop them from attacking you by giving them what they want inizia ad imparare
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The banquets were to appease the gods
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something that you get legally from your work in addition to your wages, such as goods, meals, or a car inizia ad imparare
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The banquets may have been welcomed as a perk of the job
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relating to the heart and blood vessels (= tubes that carry blood around the body): inizia ad imparare
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the banquets increased their chances of cardiovascular disease
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a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by officials who are employed to follow rules carefully: inizia ad imparare
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plural bureaucracies The priests, a powerful bureaucracy under the pharaohs
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a bird, such as a chicken, that is kept for its meat and eggs, or the meat of this type of bird inizia ad imparare
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The priests would place vast plates of roast fowl before a god’s statue
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existing or being produced in large quantities inizia ad imparare
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copious quantities of wine
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to make something known publicly, or to show something that was hidden: inizia ad imparare
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Egyptologists have disclosed the cost of keeping the gods happy.
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words that are written or cut in something: inizia ad imparare
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hieroglyphic inscriptions on temple walls
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a form of arteriosclerosis (= hardening of the arteries, the thick tubes carrying blood from the heart) that is caused by a fatty substance building up inside the arteries inizia ad imparare
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they have assessed their atherosclerosis
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one of the thick tubes that carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body: inizia ad imparare
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they assessed the build-up of fat and calcium in the arteries
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spending a lot of time sitting down, and not moving or exercising very much inizia ad imparare
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a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, sometimes causing a loss of the ability to move particular parts of the body: inizia ad imparare
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a sedentary life made strokes a modern killer
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completely clear and without any possibility of doubt inizia ad imparare
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There is unequivocal evidence that atherosclerosis is a disease of ancient times
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a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals, etc. on it, especially one who has a low income, very little education, and a low social position. This is usually used of someone who lived in the past or of someone in a poor country: inizia ad imparare
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the simple peasant diet were cereals and vegetables.
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(French) memorandum, a note of things to be remembered inizia ad imparare
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Inscriptions on temple walls acted as an aide memoire for priests on performing the rituals.
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literary heavily loaded with something, or containing a lot of something inizia ad imparare
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Many of the items, not least goose, were laden with saturated fats.
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to make something completely clean inizia ad imparare
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The job of the priests was to perform rituals on behalf of the king: to feed, cleanse the god in his temple sanctuary.
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the people who live in a country inizia ad imparare
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the statues would not be seen by the populace
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a chemical used to stop food from decaying: inizia ad imparare
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Salt was used as a preservative.
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behaving in a way that is dishonest or unfair in order to get what you want: inizia ad imparare
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sometimes unscrupulous priests took the divine rations from the temple
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