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 Chem’istry [kem’istry]Chennap’pa. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Che’mos or Che’mosh [Kee’mosh].
 
War-god of the Moabites; god of lust.   1
       
“Next, Chemos, the obscene dread of Moab’s sons,
From Ar’oer to Nebo, and the wild
Of southmost Ab’arim.”
       
Milton: Paradise Lost, book i, 406–8.
 


 Chem’istry [kem’istry]Chennap’pa. 

 
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