taurine

comparative more taurine · superlative most taurine

1. Pertaining to a bull; bull-like.

   I am the Ionian Minotaur, the mightiest Of all Europa’s taurine progeny— I am the old traditional Man-Bull;

   1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts

1. uncountablebiochemistryAn amino-sulfonic acid, NH₂CH₂CH₂SO₃H, that has regulatory functions in mammals.

   Researchers found that a high daily dose of taurine, an amino acid commonly added to energy drinks and naturally found in various foods, helped to delay death and mitigate against the biological ravages of aging.

   2023 June 8, Elie Dolgin, “From Energy Drinks to Extending Life? Supplement Slows Aging in Mice and Monkeys”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Synonyms: tauric acid

1. not comparableastrologyOf or pertaining to the zodiacal sign Taurus.

   Just as the world recently moved from a "Taurine Age" to a "Piscean Age," we are now in that hazy astrological area where the "Piscean Age" is ending and an "Aquarian Age" is beginning.

   1990, Joyce Wilson, Canadian Book Review Annual, page 94

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   Although it would seem that later Hindu Zodiacs began with the Ram also, established perhaps through Greek influence, yet early astromers testify to an ancient order in which Aquarius, on the banks of the Ganges, as in China, marked the Winter Solstice, an arrangement which as we have seen in our study of the "Yellow Way", would correspond to the Taurine Era of the Vernal Equinox.

   1913, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, Popular Astronomy, volume 21, page 158

   Even within the code of such worship, the choice of a calf, redolent of the former zodiacal Taurine age, is an offensive and retardataire sign in the age of Ares and suggests spiritual and social reaction and cowardice.

   1996, Trustees of Boston College, Religion and the Arts: A Journal from Boston College, volume 1, page 68

   Synonyms: Taurean