No matter how hard I prodded that mule, he would not move further up the trail.
The professor prodded me for an answer, to no avail.
"Bob gently prodded the dog into the doghouse."
I gently prodded the horse.
The doctors prodded and poked the patient, but could not find anything physically wrong with him. The mayor prodded the sheriff to improve the training of the county deputies.
No one needed to be prodded or pushed to buy an item at this class bake sale
I have given you this answer. You may now procede with your vocabulary test.
He prodded them with his finger when they were in his seat.
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Aside from the soldier piercing His side (John 19:34), the New Testament says nothing of Jesus being "prodded with spears."
The opposite of "prodded" is "reassured" or "dissuaded," as prodding implies encouraging or urging someone to take action, while reassuring or dissuading suggests calming or persuading someone not to act. If someone is prodded, they are being nudged or pushed toward a decision or action; the opposite would involve creating a sense of comfort or discouragement regarding that action.
Christian tradition says that Emperor Nero had large numbers of Christians thrown to the lions, but historians can find no evidence for this claim.Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) says the Christian writers of the fourth or fifth centuries ascribed to the emperors of Rome the same degree of implacable and unrelenting zeal which filled their own breasts against the heretics or pagans of their own times. Thus, the Christians were justifying their own brutality by the myth of earlier pagan brutality.