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  • There is more than one meaning of Annapolis discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • She says He (meaning God) is my dear father.

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  • I've been meaning to get my bike fixed too.

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  • They didn't know the meaning of the word.

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  • The loss of charge is due to more than one cause, and it is difficult to attribute an absolutely definite meaning even to results obtained with the cover on.

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  • Or maybe the only real meaning of life is to take what pleasure you want from it.

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  • You were meaning to go out, weren't you, Mamma?

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  • He showed that assigning meaning to the sign of an otherwise homogenous representation of geometry could provide a multitude of benefits.

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  • Until men learn the meaning of the word no, I'll protect myself in the way that has proven most effective.

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  • However, you can look at our glossary, which explains the meaning of all these new terms.

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  • A few months ago she didn't know the true meaning of love.

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  • She made the "c-a," then stopped and thought, and making the sign for eating and pointing downward she pushed me toward the door, meaning that I must go downstairs for some cake.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Lima discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • No, meaning you should mind your own business - meaning this isn't your stable.

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  • She tried to decipher his meaning as she watched them fight, terrified to take her eyes off Rhyn.

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  • The meaning of the name is uncertain.

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  • Wynn debated the meaning behind the words.

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  • In the canon law the word bears a more extended meaning than in English law.

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  • It is also used as a term of abuse, meaning "boor."

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  • There is more than one meaning of Newcastle discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Dardanelles discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Kerman discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Fribourg discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Brunswick discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • The president of this council, or ruling chief - chosen from among the members of the two recognized reigning families - is called the alake, a word meaning "Lord of Ake," Ake being the name of the principal quarter of Abeokuta, after the ancient capital of the Egbas.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Granada discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Arnobius discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • Each proposition of the decree is carefully tracked to its probable source, and is often found to modify the latter's meaning.

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  • At the time of Charlemagne, the word Austrasia underwent a change of meaning and became synonymous with Francia orientalis, and was applied to the Frankish dominions beyond the Rhine (Franconia).

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  • The word has been used technically in philosophy with various shades of meaning.

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  • A special meaning has been assigned to the term " lines of induction."

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  • The western church did not accept Jerome's definition of apocrypha, but retained the word in its original meaning, though great confusion prevailed.

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  • It is not therefore surprising that the most various views are still held as to the date and meaning of the book.

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  • In this connexion it should be observed that the word patrimonium gradually changed in meaning.

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  • The Frankish kings of the Merovingian dynasty retained the Roman system of administration, and under them the word comes preserved its original meaning; the comes was a companion of the king, a royal servant of high rank.

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  • A relic of the old official meaning of "count" still survives in Transylvania, where the head of the political administration of the Saxon districts is styled count (comes, Graf) of the Saxon Nation.

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  • In the confusion of the period of transition, when the title to possession was usually the power to hold, designations which had once possessed a definite meaning were preserved with no defined association.

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  • In Germany the change from the official to the territorial and hereditary counts followed at the outset much the same course as in France, though the later development of the title and its meaning was different.

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  • Prantl has professed to find the headstream of Nominalism also in Scotus Erigena; but beyond the fact that he discusses at considerable length the categories of thought and their mutual relations, occasionally using the term voces to express his meaning, Prantl appears to adduce no reasons for an assertion which directly contradicts Erigena's most fundamental doctrines.

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  • And we must probe the deepest meaning of the terms we are trying to be accurate about.

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  • Then I took the doll, meaning to give it back to her when she had made the letters; but she thought I meant to take it from her, and in an instant she was in a temper, and tried to seize the doll.

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  • Next I tried to teach her the meaning of FAST and SLOW.

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  • He now understood the whole meaning and importance of this war and of the impending battle.

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  • The whole meaning of life--not for him alone but for the whole world--seemed to him centered in his love and the possibility of being loved by her.

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  • The meaning and derivation of the name are not known.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Tarragona discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Dover discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • The Zulu forces crossed the Tugela the same day, and the most advanced parties of the Boers were massacred, many at a spot near where the town of Weenen now stands, its name (meaning wailing or weeping) commemorating the event.

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  • The author interprets Boetius's meaning to be " Quod eadem res individuum et species et genus est, et non esse universalia individuis quasi quoddam diversum."

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  • Holding fast then on the one hand to the individual as the only true substance, and on the other to the traditional definition of the genus as that which is predicated of a number of individuals (quod praedicatur de pluribus), Abelard declared that this definition of itself condemns the Realistic theory; only a name, not a thing, can be so predicated - not the name, however, as a flatus vocis or a collection of letters, but the name as used in discourse, the name as a sign, as having a meaning - in a word, not vox but sermo.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Alexandria discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Quintus Hortensius discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • The principal step in the modern development of algebra was the recognition of the meaning of negative quantities.

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  • Reference to a geometrical interpretation seems at first sight to throw light on the meaning of a differential coefficient; but closer analysis reveals new difficulties, due to the geometrical interpretation itself.

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  • Because its meaning has to be imputed, we have tended to describe it in terms of prior technologies—which, in many cases, understates its potential by many orders of magnitude.

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  • I remember the morning that I first asked the meaning of the word, "love."

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  • For a long time I was still--I was not thinking of the beads in my lap, but trying to find a meaning for "love" in the light of this new idea.

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  • The little songs and the sonnets have a meaning for me as fresh and wonderful as the dramas.

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  • My spirit could not reach up to his, but he gave me a real sense of joy in life, and I never left him without carrying away a fine thought that grew in beauty and depth of meaning as I grew.

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  • She pointed down, meaning that the doll was downstairs.

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  • I SHALL USE COMPLETE SENTENCES IN TALKING TO HER, and fill out the meaning with gestures and her descriptive signs when necessity requires it; but I shall not try to keep her mind fixed on any one thing.

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  • Helen noticed that the puppies' eyes were closed, and she said, "Eyes--shut. Sleep--no," meaning, "The eyes are shut, but the puppies are not asleep."

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  • The intellectual improvement which Helen has made in the past two years is shown more clearly in her greater command of language and in her ability to recognize nicer shades of meaning in the use of words, than in any other branch of her education.

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  • Some of these words have successive steps of meaning, beginning with what is simple and leading on to what is abstract.

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  • She ran her fingers along the lines, finding the words she knew and guessing at the meaning of others, in a way that would convince the most conservative of educators that a little deaf child, if given the opportunity, will learn to read as easily and naturally as ordinary children.

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  • A robust poor man, one sunny day here in Concord, praised a fellow-townsman to me, because, as he said, he was kind to the poor; meaning himself.

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  • My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day."

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  • What was the meaning of this so steady and self-respecting, this small Herculean labor, I knew not.

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  • He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, passing it across Helene's back.

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  • All these memories will be no more, none of them will have any meaning for me.

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  • Glory, the good of society, love of a woman, the Fatherland itself--how important these pictures appeared to me, with what profound meaning they seemed to be filled!

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  • All their faces looked dejected, and they all shunned one another's eyes--only a de Beausset could fail to grasp the meaning of what was happening.

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  • Only when he had understood the peasants' tastes and aspirations, had learned to talk their language, to grasp the hidden meaning of their words, and felt akin to them did he begin boldly to manage his serfs, that is, to perform toward them the duties demanded of him.

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  • She paused, realizing he was looking for a deeper meaning.

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  • Like her other thoughts, this one escaped before she was able to understand its meaning.

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  • I'd like to think there's greater meaning to both of us being reincarnated.

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  • She repeated the phrase over and over, searching for another meaning.

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  • One of the results of these investigations was to extend the meaning of the word mechanism, and comprise under it all laws which obtain in the phenomenal world, not excepting the phenomena of life and mind.

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  • What, however, with the idealists was an object of thought alone, the absolute, is to Lotze only inadequately definable in rigorous philosophical language; the aspirations of the human heart, the contents of our feelings and desires, the aims of art and the tenets of religious faith must be grasped in order to fill the empty idea of the absolute with meaning.

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  • We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.

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  • Sicily was a favourite haunt of the two 1 Some, however, regard Proserpina as a native Latin form, not borrowed from the Greek, and connected with proserpere, meaning the goddess who aided the germination of the seed.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Durango discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Bahia discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • No definition of the meaning of the words "adjacent waters" was given in the act.

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  • This was as true under Liberal as under Conservative auspices - as Canadians understood the meaning of these party names.

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  • The very names of the islands indicate their nature, for the terminal a or ay is the Norse ey, meaning "island," which is scarcely disguised even in the words Pomona and Hoy.

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  • By a "text" is to be understood a document written in a language known, more or less, to the inquirer, and assumed to have a meaning which has been or can be ascertained.

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  • What was the meaning of the writer?

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  • To set the meaning of a passage in a foreign language before us we must frequently have recourse to translation.

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  • This morning she asked me the meaning of "carpenter," and the question furnished the text for the day's lesson.

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  • The Romans had, up to the end of the Republic, accepted only one official apotheosis; the god Quirinus, whatever his original meaning, having been identified with Romulus.

  • The name has a curious origin, which explains also the particular meaning of the adjective "spruce," neatly dressed, smart in appearance, fine.

  • To attach a clear and definite meaning to the Cartesian doctrine of God, to show how much of it comes from the Christian theology and how much from the logic of idealism, how far the conception of a personal being as creator and preserver mingles with the pantheistic conception of an infinite and perfect something which is all in all, would be to go beyond Descartes and to ask for a solution of difficulties of which he was 1 Ouvres, vi.

  • There is more than one meaning of Prome discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The name Varuna may be Indo-European, identifiable, some believe, with the Greek ofpavos (Uranus), and ultimately referable to a root var, " to cover," Varuna thus meaning "the Encompasser."

  • There is more than one meaning of Kermanshah discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Huesca discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The exact meaning of these features is not clear, but if it be remembered (a) that the Levites of post-exilic literature represent only the result of a long and intricate development, (b) that the name "Levite," in the later stages at least, was extended to include all priestly servants, and (c) that the priesthoods, in tending to become hereditary, included priests who were Levites by adoption and not by descent, it will be recognized that the examination of the evidence for the earlier stages cannot confine itself to those narratives where the specific term alone occurs.

  • Its most suggestive likenesses are indicated above, but further evidence may render the similarity less striking when the meaning of it is more fully understood.

  • The name Volsci itself is significant not merely in its suffix; the older form Volusci clearly contains the word meaning "marsh" identical with Gr.

  • And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with Him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of Tamworth discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • For the number " five " a word meaning " many " was employed.

  • Its true meaning was not lost upon a business community that had had twenty years of almost unchecked prosperity.

  • There is more than one meaning of Winnipeg discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • In the course of time it extended its meaning and was more generally used.

  • There is more than one meaning of Arcadius discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Mysore discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Discords must not be taken unprepared, because a singer can only find his note by a mental judgment, and in attacking a discord he has to find a note of which the harmonic meaning is at variance with that of other notes sung at the same time.

  • Haydn finds the pianoforte so completely capable of expressing his meaning that he is at a loss to find independent material for any accompanying instruments; and the violoncello in his trios has, except perhaps in four passages in the whole collection of thirty-three works, not a note to play that is not already in the bass of the pianoforte; while the melodies of the violin are, more often than not, doubled in the treble.

  • There is more than one meaning of Louis Philippe discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The term came in time to mean " a beggar " and with that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily poor, he may have been landless.

  • It will be observed that the circuit is not in this case actually open; the meaning of the expression " open circuit " is " no battery to line."

  • Disturbed to the centre of his being he anxiously sought the meaning of it all, and then he saw on his body the Stigmata of the Crucified."

  • There is more than one meaning of Plutarch discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • This is the meaning of the three leagues, in the March, in the duchy of Spoleto and in Tuscany, which now combined the chief cities of the papal territory into allies of the holy see.

  • The exact derivation and meaning of the name is somewhat uncertain.

  • The term has had several changes of meaning.

  • Locke had spent some years in Holland, the country of Grotius, who, with help from other great lawyers, and under a misapprehension as to the meaning of the Roman jus gentium, shaped modern concepts of international law by an appeal to law of nature.

  • Again, these contrasted philosophies throw light upon the meaning of a posteriori and a priori in Kant and subsequent writers.

  • This view seems to preserve all that is questionable in Libertarianism, while omitting its moral meaning.

  • Similarly, miracles - absolute new beginnings - are possible on God's side, if they are not mere anomalies but acts promotive of the general meaning or tendency of things, and of the divine plan of the universe.

  • The chief pitfall appears to be the tendency to attach more meaning to the results than from their nature they can bear.

  • A further extension of the meaning in which the word Pali was used followed in a very suggestive way.

  • In describing tadpoles, the term "body" is therefore used as meaning head and body.

  • In these he expressed the opinion that the meaning of words was natural, not fixed by man.

  • The Orphic poems also played an important part in the controversies between Christian and pagan writers in the 3rd and 4th centuries after Christ; pagan writers quoted them to show the real meaning of the multitude of gods, while Christians retorted by reference to the obscene and disgraceful fictions by which the former degraded their gods.

  • There is more than one meaning of Galway discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • No doubt the primary object of the cell-wall of even the humblest protoplast is protection, and this too is the meaning of the coarser tegumentary structures of a bulkier plant.

  • It may be inquired what meaning is to be attached to these expressions, and what are the conditions and the nature of the changes assumed by them.

  • Its meaning has, however, become synonymous and is consecrated by usage.

  • Investigations of every kind which have been based on original sources of knowledge may be styled "research," and it may be said that without "research" no authoritative works have been written, no scientific discoveries or inventions made, no theories of any value propounded; but the word also has a somewhat restricted meaning attached to it in current usage.

  • Aristotle defined the temperate zone as extending from the tropic to the arctic circle, but there is some uncertainty as to the precise meaning he gave to the term " arctic circle."

  • The popular Physical meaning is better conveyed by the word physiography, a geography.

  • Although the term has since been limited by some writers to one particular part of the subject, it seems best to maintain the original and literal meaning.

  • The only other important term which requires to be noted here is talweg, a word introduced from the German into French and English, and meaning the deepest line along the valley, which is necessarily occupied by a stream unless the valley is dry.

  • It is partly due to this early meaning that the derivation from the root of " brood " has been usually accepted; this the New English Dictionary regards as " inadmissible."

  • The most primitive combination, ambiens and A B X Y, is the most common; next follows that of A X Y, meaning the reduction of B, i.e.

  • There is more than one meaning of Rio De Janeiro discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Corrientes discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Paris discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • His name was Zahir ud-din-Mahomet, and he was given the surname of Baber, meaning the tiger.

  • There is more than one meaning of Basel discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • It is, however, not a mere coincidence that the two great kabbalistic text-books, the Bahir and the Zohar (both meaning "brightness"), appear first in the 13th century.

  • There is more than one meaning of Prussia discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • To form a true understanding of what is strictly implied in the word "nobility," in its social as opposed to a purely moral sense, it is needful to distinguish its meaning from that of several words with which it is likely to be confounded.

  • This last is a word which is often greatly abused; but, whenever it is used with any regard to its true meaning, it is a word strictly political, implying a particular form of government.

  • But that they are the same is proved by the use of the French word gentilhomme, a word which has pretty well passed out of modern use, but which, as long as it remained in use, never lost its true meaning.

  • The word "gentleman" has lost its original meaning in a variety of other uses, while the word "nobleman" has come to be confined to members of the peerage and a few of their immediate descendants.

  • Patricians and plebeians went on as orders defined by law, till the distinction died out in the confusion of things under the empire, till at last the word "patrician" took quite a new meaning.

  • And, if no government on earth ever fully carried out the literal meaning of aristocracy as the rule of the best, these civic nobilities come nearer to it than any other form of government.

  • Those who possessed the right of coatarmour by immemorial use, or by grant in regular form, formed the class of nobility or gentry, words which, it must again be remembered, are strictly of the same meaning.

  • It was left to the Stoics to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to assign to the words "knowledge" and "nature" a saner and more comprehensive meaning.

  • Stated thus baldly, has the distinction any meaning?

  • In many countries, such as Germany and Russia, the term has retained its original meaning of an officer on the personal staff, and is the designation of personal aides-de-camp to the sovereign.

  • There is more than one meaning of William James discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • It extended the meaning of the term " railroad " to include switches, spurs and terminal facilities, and the term " transportation " to include private cars, and all collateral services, such as refrigeration, elevation and storage.

  • In the Deutero-Isaiah the meaning of Israel's sufferings is exhibited as vicarious.

  • The idea underlying the word, which to us is invested with deep ethical meaning, had only this non-ethical, ritual significance in Ezekiel.

  • From the sense of having full vigour, living or lively qualities or movements, the word, got its chief current meaning of possessing rapidity or speed of movement, mental or physical.

  • Ockley's book on the Saracens " first opened his eyes " to the striking career of Mahomet and his hordes; and with his characteristic ardour of literary research, after exhausting all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tatars and Turks, he forthwith plunged into the French of D'Herbelot, and the Latin of Pocock's version of Abulfaragius, sometimes understanding them, but oftener only guessing their meaning.

  • Lightfoot, on the contrary, endeavoured to make his author interpret himself, and by considering the general drift of his argument to discover his meaning where it appeared doubtful.

  • Thus he was able often to recover the meaning of a passage which had long been buried under a heap of contradictory glosses, and he founded a school in which sobriety and common sense were added to the industry and ingenuity of former commentators.

  • There is more than one meaning of Aude discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • According to Farnell, the meaning of the epithet is to be looked for in the original conception of Erinys, which was that of an earth-goddess akin to Ge, thus naturally associated with Demeter, rather than that of a wrathful avenging deity.

  • The meaning of the name may be "the stone heap"; but it is not necessarily a Hebrew word.

  • The cathedral of Sodor was on St Patrick's Isle at Peel, and it is possible that the name Sodor being lost, its meaning was applied to the isle as the seat of the bishop. The termination "and Man" seems to have been added in the 17th century by a legal draughtsman ignorant of the proper application of the name of Sodor to the bishopric of Man.

  • On the other hand, criticism has given a deeper meaning to the Old Testament history, and has brought into relief the central truths which really are vital; it may be said to have replaced a divine account of man by man's account of the divine.

  • Whatever recollection they preserved of their origin and of the circumstances of their entry would be retold from a new standpoint; the ethnological traditions would gain a new meaning; the assimilation would in time become complete.

  • Recent criticism goes to show that there is a very considerable body of biblical material, more important for its attitude to the history than for its historical accuracy, the true meaning of which cannot as yet be clearly perceived.

  • Theword "prelacy," meaning no more originally than the office and dignity of a prelate, came to be applied in Presbyterian Scotland and Puritan England - especially during the 17th century - to the episcopal form of church government, being used in a..

  • Just as the Mosaic dispensation came to an end with the appearance of Christ, so the sacraments of the new dispensation have lost their meaning and efficacy since the incarnation of God as Holy Spirit in the Amalricans.

  • The word has, however, undergone sundry modifications of meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of George Mackenzie discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • It would appear probable, however, that the former of these words was derived from an Assyrian or Hebrew root, which signifies the west or setting sun, and the latter from a corresponding root meaning the east or rising sun, and that they were used at one time to imply the west and the east.

  • But the exact meaning which he attaches to such expressions is not quite clear; and they occur, moreover, only incidentally and with the air of current phrases mechanically repeated.

  • The name of Pomore, or Pommern, meaning "on the sea," was given to the district by the latter of the tribes about the time of Charlemagne, and it has often changed its political and geographical significance.

  • Even to the present day the legend has 1 It is probable that the story of the piercing of his feet is a subsequent invention to explain the name, or is due to a false etymology (from oih&o), 01St rovs in reality meaning the "wise" (from oTSa), chiefly in reference to his having solved the riddle, the syllable - irovs having no significance.

  • The word "monarchy" has, however, outlived this original meaning, and is now used, when used at all, somewhat loosely of states ruled over by hereditary sovereigns, as distinct from republics with elected presidents; or for the "monarchical principle," as opposed to the republican, involved in this distinction.

  • The workings of this Will are irrational primarily, but, as in its evolution it becomes more rationalized and understands the whole meaning of the Weltschmerz, it ultimately reaches the point at which the desire for existence is gone.

  • This, according to the manner of speaking of that day, is the meaning of his words ante conversionem meam, though it is quite possible that he may at the same time have renounced the Arian creed of his forefathers, which it is clear that he no longer held when he wrote his Gothic history.

  • There is more than one meaning of Vancouver discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • It is not unlike the procedure of the canonists and casuists of the middle ages with regard to the doctrine of usury, by which the doctrine was to all appearances preserved intact while in reality it was stripped of all its original meaning by innumerable distinctions " over-curious and precise."

  • In modern economics "fertility" has no very definite meaning.

  • Whether he used the words attributed to him in the Annual Register for 1761 is more than doubtful, but the minutes of council show that they express his meaning.

  • If the name is rightly interpreted as meaning "aliens," they would seem to have driven out the original inhabitants.

  • There is more than one meaning of Athens discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The full meaning of the change which had come over Venetian architecture, of the gulf which lies between the early Lombardesque style, so purely characteristic of Venice, and the fully developed classical revival, which now assumed undisputed sway, may best be grasped by comparing the old and the new Procuratie.

  • Clearly, then, the exact meaning of the term varies according to those who use it and those to whom it is applied.

  • In the r3th century the Ponizie was plundered by the Mongols; a hundred years afterwards Olgierd, prince of Lithuania, freed it from their rule, annexing it to his own territories under the name of Podolia, a word which has the same meaning as Ponizie.

  • His theological views have a considerable similarity to those of Frederick Denison Maurice, who acknowledges having been indebted to him for his first true conception of the meaning of Christ's sacrifice.

  • Modern etymologists connect it with lu-crum, and explain it as meaning the goddess of gain.

  • The stronger current of modern authority is in favour of the landlords and not in favour of restricting the meaning of covenants of this class.

  • Yet judged by modern standards he had an inadequate conception of the meaning of ordered research.

  • In the cotton belt of the United States it would be possible to put a still greater acreage under this crop, but the tendency is rather towards what is known as " diversified " or mixed farming than to making cotton the sole important crop. Cotton, however, is in increasing demand, and the problem for the American cotton planter is to obtain a better yield of cotton from the same area, - by " better yield " meaning an increase not only in quantity but also in quality of lint.

  • There is more than one meaning of Orenburg discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The book, as it stands, is a collection of the discourses, observations and aphorisms of a sage called Koheleth, a term the precise meaning of which is not certain.

  • For the meaning of the word abyona (" caper-berry," not "desire" or "poverty"), see art.

  • There is more than one meaning of Indies discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • For instance, the names which they give to certain fruits, such as the duri-an, the rambut-an and the pulas-an, which are indigenous in the Malayan countries, and are not found elsewhere, are all compound words meaning respectively the thorny, the hairy and the twisted fruit.

  • The last two are sometimes indicated by particles or auxiliary verbs; but these are generally dispensed with if the meaning is sufficiently plain without them.

  • There is more than one meaning of Acerra discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Philo himself was uncertain as to the meaning of the name, whether it was given to them because they were "physicians" of souls or because they were "servants" of the One God.

  • Tantalus's betrayal of the secrets of the gods refers to the sun unveiling the secrets of heaven; the slaying of Pelops denotes the going-down of the sun, Pelops meaning the "` gray one," an epithet of the gloomy sky in which the last rays of the sun are extinguished.

  • Worterbuch, who derives the element bel from an old Celtic root meaning shining, &c.) (W.

  • In postAugustan Latin gentilis became wider in meaning, following the usage of gens, in the sense of race, nation, and meant "national," belonging to the same race.

  • His doctrine on the subject is found in the well-known letter to the Portuguese Jesuits in 15J3, and if this be read carefully together with the Constitutions his meaning is clear.

  • There is more than one meaning of Galba discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Farn; the Indo-European root, seen in the Sanskrit parna, a feather, shows the primary meaning; cf.

  • There is more than one meaning of Reformed Church discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Huelva discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Southampton discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The distribution of weight in chemical change is readily expressed in the form of equations by the aid of these symbols; the equation 2HC1+Zn =ZnCl2+H2, for example, is to be read as meaning that from 73 parts of hydrochloric acid and 65 parts of zinc, 136 parts of zinc chloride and 2 parts of hydrogen are produced.

  • The + sign is invariably employed in this way either to express combination or action upon, the meaning usually attached to the use of the sign = being that from such and such bodies such and such other bodies are formed.

  • The crowning complication in the effect of Der fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser and Lohengrin on the musical thought of the 10th century was that the unprecedented fusion of their musical with their dramatic contents revealed some of the meaning of serious music to ears that had been deaf to the classics.

  • The only illogical point in his system is that the beauty of his dreamlike chords depends not only on his artful choice of a timbre that minimizes their harshness, but also on the fact that they enter the ear with the meaning they have acquired through centuries of harmonic evolution on classical lines.

  • There is a special pleasure in the subsidence of that meaning beneath a soothing sensation; but a system based thereon cannot be universal.

  • Like its sister Epistle to the Colossians, it represents, whoever wrote it, deep experience and bold use of reflection on the meaning of that experience; if it be from the pen of the Apostle Paul, it reveals to us a distinct and important phase of his thought.

  • There is more than one meaning of Cairo discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Sometimes a difference of meaning is indicated by difference of spelling though the sounds in the two words are identical, as in furs and furze.

  • There is more than one meaning of Cordoba discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Francis Palgrave discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Creon discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Zacatecas discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Philo discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Saturn discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Guibert discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • From the time of my admission to the priesthood to my (present) fifty-ninth year, I have endeavoured, for my own use and that of my brethren, to make brief notes upon the Holy Scripture, either out of the works of the venerable fathers, or in conformity with their meaning and interpretation."

  • Gherardo, however, did not say, as has been supposed, that Joachim's books were the new gospel, but merely that the Calabrian abbot had supplied the key to Holy Writ, and that with the help of that intelligentia mystica it would be possible to extract from the Old and New Testaments the eternal meaning, the gospel according to the Spirit, a gospel which would never be written; as for this eternal sense, it had been entrusted to an order set apart, to the Franciscan order announced by Joachim, and in this order the ideal of the third age was realized.

  • His text, however, is so confused, both from obscurity of style and from corruptions in the MSS., that there is much difference of opinion as to the meaning of many words and phrases employed in his narrative, and their application in particular points of detail.

  • Zoroaster taught a new religion; but this must not be taken as meaning that everything he taught came, so to say, out of his own head.

  • Burra is a contraction of Bo?gar-oy, meaning "Broch island."

  • Zaire is a Portuguese variant of a Bantu word (nzari) meaning river.

  • There is more than one meaning of Herod Agrippa discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Accordingly, it is a fallacy for any determination of x to consider "x is an x" or "x is not an x" as having the meaning of propositions.

  • The " tax on sheep, camels, buffaloes and hogs " (aghnam, meaning literally " sheep," but for taxing purposes the other animals are included under the same name), formed originally part of the " tithe."

  • Such is the intentional obscurity in many of the compositions of these two authors that every sentence becomes a puzzle, over which even a scholarly Ottoman must pause before he can be sure he has found its true meaning.

  • Further extensions of this meaning are to an explanation, comment or addition, added in the margin or at the foot of the page to a passage in a book, &c., or to a communication in writing shorter or less formal than a letter.

  • Reverting to the origin and the meaning of the feast, modern criticism draws attention to the different nature of the two observances combined with the name Passover, the pastoral sacrifice of the paschal lamb and the agricultural observance of a seven days' abstention from unleavened bread.

  • But the words of Clement are quite precise and their meaning indisputable.

  • His father was called Bonaccio, most probably a nickname with the ironical meaning of "a good, stupid fellow," while to Leonardo himself another nickname, Bigollone (dunce, blockhead), seems to have been given.

  • In the Flos equations with negative values of the unknown quantity are also to be met with, and Leonardo perfectly understands the meaning of these negative solutions.

  • There is more than one meaning of Lucerne discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Bokhara discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • When the Norsemen came to Greenland they found various remains indicating, as the old sagas say, that there had been people of a similar kind as those they met with in Vinland, in America, whom they called Skraeling (the meaning of the word is uncertain, it means possibly weak people); but the sagas do not report that they actually met the natives then.

  • The meaning of this singular contrast between the two animals may be that we have here an instance of an interesting gradation in evolution.

  • Beyond Khush Yailak (meaning "pleasant summer quarters"), with an elevation of 10,000 ft., are the Kuh i Buhar (8000) and Kuh i Suluk (8000), which latter joins the Ala Dagh (1r,000).

  • The great river itself is known in Tibet by many names, being generally called the Nari Chu, Maghang Tsanpo or Yaro Tsanpo, above Lhasa; the word " tsanpo " (tsang-po) meaning (according to Waddell) the " pure one," and applying to all great rivers.

  • It is clear from what has been said above that the liturgical vestments possessed originally no mystic symbolic meaning whatever; it was equally certain that, as their origins were forgotten, they would develop such a symbolic meaning.

  • The attitude of the second group is based on a mistake as to the technical meaning of "the second year of Edward VI.," the second Prayer Book not having come into use till the third year.

  • There is more than one meaning of Buenos Aires discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Glarus discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The word apanage is still employed in this sense in French official texts of some Customs; but it was in old public law that it received its definite meaning and importance.

  • There is more than one meaning of Christopher Wordsworth discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The name mica is probably derived from the Latin micare, to shine, to glitter; the German word glimmer has the same meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of Aristobulus discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • In any case, it is fairly certain that Tritogeneia means "water-born," although an old interpretation derived it from TpcTCO, a supposed Boeotian word meaning "head," which further points to the name having originated in Boeotia.

  • We may regard this as meaning the same as 5 X3 X7 lb, since 7 lb itself means 7 X 1 lb, and the lb is the unit in each case.

  • This rule as to the meaning of X is important.

  • We cannot solve the equation 7X =4s.; but we are accustomed to subdivision of units, and we can therefore give a meaning to X by inventing a unit w s.

  • When, by practice with logarithms, we become familiar with the correspondence between additions of length on the logarithmic scale (on a slide-rule) and multiplication of numbers in the natural scale (including fractional numbers), A /5 acquires a definite meaning as the number corresponding to the extremity of a length x, on the logarithmic scale, such that 5 corresponds to the extremity of 2X.

  • It is better, however, to treat this as a secondary meaning.

  • The progress of analytical geometry led to a geometrical interpretation both of negative and also of imaginary quantities; and when a " meaning " or, more properly, an interpretation, had thus been found for the symbols in question, a reconsideration of the old algebraic problem became inevitable, and the true solution, now so obvious, was eventually obtained.

  • A characteristic feature of the calculus is that a meaning can be attached to a symbol of this kind by adopting a new rule, called that of regressive multiplication, as distinguished from the foregoing, which is progressive.

  • Other writers have derived the word from the Arabic particle al (the definite article), and geber, meaning " man."

  • The Zagreb press could only comment indirectly, but conveyed its meaning by insisting that the Reichsrat programme of May 30 was an absolute minimum.

  • The importance of the general conclusions above formulated, as imposing a limit upon our powers of direct observation, can hardly be overestimated; but there has been in some quarters a tendency to ascribe to it a more precise character than it can bear, or even to mistake its meaning altogether.

  • Hence there is much doubt as to his exact meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of John Marshall discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • But here it becomes necessary to ask what is the precise meaning which we are to assign to the phrases, " to David," " to Asaph," " to the sons of Korah."

  • If this explanation be correct - and it certainly accords best with the meaning of r*5 in i Chron.

  • Of this group of people, among whom may be named the Yao, Yao Yin, Lanten, Meo, Musur (or Muhso) and Kaw, perhaps the best known and most like the Lao are the Lu - both names meaning originally "man" - who have in many cases adopted a form of Buddhism (flavoured strongly by their natural respect for local spirits as well as tattooing) and other relatively civilized customs, and have forsaken their wandering life among the hills for a more settled village existence.

  • The problem as to the meaning of the name Assur is rendered all the more confusing by the fact that the city and land are also called Assur (as well as A-usar),both by the Khammurabi records' and generally in the later Assyrian literature.

  • Their canon included only the "Gospel and Apostle," of which they respected the text, but distorted the meaning.

  • Such objects might be imitated in other materials and by successive copying lose their identity, or their first meaning might be otherwise forgotten, and they would ultimately exercise a purely decorative function.

  • That the Pharaoh's skirt, sometimes decorated with a pleated golden material, should become an honorific garment, the right of wearing which was proudly recorded among the bearer's titles, is quite intelligible, but many difficulties arise when one attempts to identify the individuals represented, or to trace the evolution of ideas.2 The well-known conservatism of religious practice manifests itself in ceremonial festivals (where there is a tendency for the original religious meaning to be obscured) and among cere= the priests, and it is interesting to observe that despite the great changes in Egyptian costume in the New Kingdom the priests still kept to the simple linen skirt of earlier days (Erman, 206).

  • Thus an abortive supernumerary finger may not cause much, if any, inconvenience to the possessor, but nevertheless it must be regarded as a type of disease, which, trivial as it may appear, has a profound meaning in phylogeny and ontogeny.

  • The name means literally the "Church of the One God," and the word Samaj, like the word Church, bears both a local and a universal, or an individual and a collective meaning.

  • But it is necessary in practice, for historical comprehensiveness, to keep the wider meaning in view.

  • They professed that their whole practice was based upon experience, to which word they gave a special meaning.

  • The medical writers of this period, who chiefly drew from Arabian sources, have been called Arabists (though it is difficult to give any clear meaning to this term), and were afterwards known as the neoterics.

  • There is more than one meaning of Ekaterinoslav discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The meaning was soon enlarged to include any place where travellers could be lodged or entertained, and also by transference the person who provided lodgings, and so one who goes on before a party to secure suitable lodgings in advance.

  • There is more than one meaning of Madrid discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The employment of " witch doctors " for " smelling out " criminals or abatagati (usually translated " wizards," but meaning evildoers of any kind, such as poisoners), once common in Zululand, as in neighbouring countries, was discouraged by Cetywayo, who established " kraals of refuge " for the reception of persons rescued by him from condemnation as abatagati.

  • There is more than one meaning of John Fortescue discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Unable to accept Berzelius's doctrine of the unalterability of organic radicals, he also gave a new interpretation to the meaning of copulae under the influence of his fellow-worker Edward Frankland's conception of definite atomic saturation-capacities, and thus contributed in an important degree to the subsequent establishment of the structure theory.

  • It is probable that Burma is the Chryse Regio of Ptolemy, a name parallel in meaning to Sonaparanta, the classic Pali title assigned to the country round the capital in Burmese documents.

  • There have been many conjectures as to the meaning of the words " magnes lapis."

  • Two inscriptions in Cufic characters surround the vase, but they, it would seem, are merely ornamental and destitute of meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of Samarkand discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Florence discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The original meaning of Urra was perhaps " clayey soil," but it came to signify " the upper country " or " highlands," kengi being " the lowlands."

  • In this case the signs representing Sumerian words were treated merely as syllables, and, without reference to their meaning, utilized for spelling Babylonian words.

  • There is more than one meaning of Marcus Porcius Cato discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • But the words thus arrived at represent a language on which other known tongues throw little or no light, and their meaning is usually to be guessed only.

  • Presently the Greek empire of the East was overthrown by Rome, and in due course this new phenomenon, so full of meaning for the Jews, called forth a new interpretation of Daniel.

  • In 1829 Tamaqua was laid out and received its present name, an Indian word meaning "running water."

  • There is more than one meaning of Kildare discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Enfield discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The meaning, the sentiment, the thought, were the last things to which the Meistersingers gave heed.

  • The stumps of Prynne's ears were shorn off in the pillory, and he was branded on the cheeks with the letters S.L., meaning "seditious libeller," which Prynne, however, interpreted as "stigmata laudis."

  • In 1806 the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine involved an extension of this mediatizing process, though the abolition of the empire itself deprived the word "mediatization" of its essential meaning.

  • During classical times the law kept to the narrow meaning of sacrilegium, but in popular usage it had grown to mean about the same as the English word.

  • The early church Fathers use the word most frequently in the restricted sense, although an effort has been made to read the wider meaning in Tertullian.

  • But by the middle of the 4th century the narrower meaning had disappeared.

  • The wider meaning had invaded the law as well.

  • Mommsen was of the opinion that sacrilegium had no settled meaning in the laws of the 4th century.

  • Gratian's Decretum mirrors two tendencies, the church legislation with its growingly less extended application, and the wide meaning as in Justinian's Code, owing to the revival of Roman law in the 11th century.

  • There is more than one meaning of Samson discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Its name is said to be part of an Indian word, neequeeantigo-sebi, meaning "evergreen."

  • The natives, whom the French call Kanakas (Canaques, a word meaning "man," applied indiscriminately to many Pacific peoples), live on reservations.

  • There is more than one meaning of Priscus discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Early meanings of the root gild or geld were expiation, penalty, sacrifice or worship, feast or banquet, and contribution or payment; it is difficult to determine which is the earliest meaning, and we are not certain whether the gildsmen were originally those who contributed to a common fund or those who worshipped or feasted together.

  • There is more than one meaning of Tiflis discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • To assign any specific date to the end of this formative age is of course impossible, but meaning by the end what has just been stated, we shall not be far wrong if we place it somewhere near the beginning of the 10th century.

  • They were forms which may rightly be called feudal, but only in the wider meaning in which we speak of the feudalism of Japan, or of Central Africa, not in the sense of 12th-century European feudalism; Saxon commendation may rightly be called vassalage, but only as looking back to the early Frankish use of the term for many varying forms of practice, not as looking forward to the later and more definite usage of completed feudalism; and such use of the terms feudal and vassalage is sure to be misleading.

  • We use the term "feudal system" for convenience sake, but with a degree of impropriety if it conveys the meaning "systematic."

  • It would seem, however, that Eutyches differed from the Alexandrine school chiefly from inability to express his meaning with proper safeguards, for equally with them he denied that Christ's human nature was either transmuted or absorbed into his divine nature.

  • Such is the supreme meaning of that national history which began with the exodus and culminated (at the same time virtually terminating) in the appearing of Christ.

  • From Nuba, the Arabic form of the name of this people, comes the modern Nubia, a term about the precise meaning of which no two writers are in accord.

  • His original name, Mahommed, was changed by his father, with whom he was a favourite, into Aurangzeb, meaning ornament of the throne, and at a later time he assumed the additional titles of Mohi-eddin, reviver of religion, and Alam-gir, conqueror of the world.

  • We get at the meaning of the term most easily by considering what it is that "relativity" is opposed to.

  • Whether this type is more conveniently designated by the word Iberian, or by some other name (" Eur-african," " Mediterranean," &c.) is a matter of comparative indifference, provided that there is no misunderstanding as to the steps by which the term Iberian attained its meaning in modern anthropology.

  • There is more than one meaning of Tarentum discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Russian discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Both interpretations, " He (who) is (always the same)," and " He (who) is (absolutely, the truly existent)," import into the name all that they profess to find in it; the one, the religious faith in God's unchanging fidelity to his people, the other, a philosophical conception of absolute being which is foreign both to the meaning of the Hebrew verb and to the force of the tense employed.

  • The derivation of Yahweh from hawah is formally unimpeachable, and is adopted by many recent scholars, who proceed, however, from the primary sense of the root rather than from the specific meaning of the nouns.

  • There is more than one meaning of Soleure discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Amesbury discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The name is from a word meaning "to roast till puckered" or "drawn up," in reference, it is suggested, to a peculiar seam in their mocassins, though other explanations have been proposed.

  • A scrupulous insistence on making his meaning clear led to an iteration of certain adjectives and adverbs, which at length deadened the effect beyond the endurance of all but the most resolute students.

  • There is more than one meaning of Maracaibo discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Hecataeus discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Hephaestion discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Neuchatel discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • With the destruction of this kingdom by Pompey in 64 B.C., the meaning of the name Pontus underwent a change.

  • There is more than one meaning of Schaffhausen discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • A statesman whose words have to be interpreted by an esoteric meaning cannot fairly complain if he is often misunderstood.

  • There is more than one meaning of William Ramsay discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The development of meaning in French from a label to ceremonial rules is not difficult in itself, but, as the New English Dictionary points out, the history has not been clearly established.

  • There is more than one meaning of Ptolemy discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Stentor discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Manitoba discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • In the form of his poem he followed a Greek original; and the stuff out of which the texture of his philosophical argument is framed was derived from Greek science; but all that is of deep human and poetical meaning in the poem is his own.

  • The meaning of this so-called Peace of Callias is doubtful.

  • There is more than one meaning of Tipperary discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • It is compounded of al, the definite article, and ilah, meaning a god.

  • The meaning of the root from which it is derived is very doubtful; cf.

  • Its proper meaning is "sacrifice," and thus the word hunsl appears in Ulfilas' Gothic version of Matt.

  • The New English Dictionary connects it with a Teutonic stem meaning "holy"; from which is derived the Lithuanian szwentas, and Lettish swats.

  • Skeat refers it to a root meaning "to kill," which may connect it with Gr.

  • There was reason to suppose that the inscriptions were identical in meaning; and fortunately it proved, when the inscriptions were made accessible to investigation through the efforts of Sir Henry Rawlinson, that the Persian inscription contained a large number of proper names.

  • There is more than one meaning of Pomona discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Those Mahommedans who retained their religion under Christian rulers were known as Mudejars, a word of Arabic origin which has been interpreted as meaning "those who remained" or "were left."

  • It is sincere and straightforward, and obviously innocent of any motive beyond that of clearly expressing the writer's meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of Palestine discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • In 1905 about 300,000 1 The name is Semitic, but its meaning is uncertain.

  • It was borne by three kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of ancient Persia; though, so long as its meaning was understood, it can have been adopted by the kings only after their accession to the throne.

  • It was his peculiar virtue that he could quote his opponents without warping their meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of David discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • From this standpoint it may be argued that every apocalypse is in a certain sense pseudonymous; for the materials are not the writer's own, but have come down to him as a sacred deposit - full of meaning for the seeing eye and the understanding heart.

  • On the other hand, since much of the material of an apocalypse is a reinterpretation, it is necessary to distinguish between its original meaning and the new turn given to it in the Apocalypse.

  • But in its new context, this meaning can hardly be retained.

  • From this meaning is deduced that of the person in whom lies the right of presenting to public offices, privileges, &c., still surviving in the title of the Patronage Secretary of the Treasury in Great Britain.

  • Anthracite is from the Greek a vepa, and the term lithanthrax, stone coal, still survives, with the same meaning, in the Italian litantrace.

  • There is more than one meaning of Marlborough discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The name Iowa (meaning "sleepy ones") was taken from a tribe of Siouan Indians (probably of Winnebago stock), which for some time had dwelt in that part of the country and were still there when the first white men came - the Frenchmen,.

  • He devoted much time to explaining the meaning of the various parts of the Prayer-Book, and held services twice every day, at which many of the parishioners attended, and some "let their plough rest when Mr Herbert's saints-bell rung to prayers, that they might also offer their devotions to God with him."

  • By means of lighted candles violently dashed to the ground and extinguished the faithful were graphically taught the meaning of the greater excommunication - though in a somewhat misleading way, for it is a fundamental principle of the canon law that disciplina est excommunicatio, non eradicatio.

  • He modestly entitled his work a Gnomon or index, his object being rather to guide the reader to ascertain the meaning for himself, than to save him from the trouble of personal investigation.

  • There is more than one meaning of Christchurch discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Innocent Iii discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The characteristic features of these divisions are very clearly marked, and their difference affords an explanation of the variety and vagueness of meaning attaching to the term "Alexandrian School."

  • The term "school," however, has not the same meaning as when applied to the Academics or Peripatetics, the Stoics or Epicureans.

  • There is more than one meaning of Bremen discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The name was particularly used of the supporters of the Exclusion Bill in 1680, with the meaning of "sham Protestant."

  • Sometimes again it connotes the meaning of "sovereign lord," in which sense it was early assumed by the princes of Sind and by the rulers of Afghanistan and Bokhara, the title implying a lesser dignity than that of sultan.

  • The Latin word sacramentum originally meant any bodily or sensible thing, or an action, or a form of words solemnly endowed with a meaning and purpose which in itself it has not.

  • The derivation of Assiniboia is from two Ojibway words, assini meaning a stone, and the termination "to cook by roasting"; from these came a name first applied to a Dakota or Sioux tribe living on the Upper Red river; afterwards when this tribe separated from the Dakotas, its name was given to the branch of the Red river which the tribe visited, the river being known as the Assiniboine and the tribe as Assiniboin.

  • It is free to every one to form his own conclusions in religious matters; and so we do no more than set forth the meaning of divine things as they appear to our minds without, however, attacking or insulting those who differ from us.

  • With this meaning the philosophical use of the term has little in common.

  • There is more than one meaning of Zanzibar discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The names of their fathers are alike, and "Lugman" means devourer, swallower, a meaning which might be got out of Balaam by a popular etymology.

  • As a technical term in theology, it has various shades of meaning according to the degree of authority which is postulated and the nature of the evidence on which it is based.

  • We must keep in mind, however, that the question is not simply one as to the meaning of a word.

  • But matter is not, in his system, to be understood with the common meaning, but with a deeper sense as the substratum of all conscious and physical existence; and thus the laws of being are identified with the laws of thought.

  • There is more than one meaning of Londonderry discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The word 6 uXia from iatXEiv (buou, Eau)), meaning communion, intercourse, and especially interchange of thought and feeling by means of words (conversation), was early employed in classical Greek to denote the instruction which a philosopher gave to his pupils in familiar talk (Xenophon, Memorabilia, I.

  • Thus the finally fixed meaning of the word homily as an ecclesiastical term came to be a written discourse (generally possessing the sanction of some great name) read in church by or for the officiating clergyman when from any cause he was unable to deliver a sermon of his own.

  • According to a local legend the name Gurramkonda, meaning "horse hill," was derived from the fact that a horse was supposed to be guardian of the fort and that the place was impregnable so long as the horse remained there.

  • Its meaning will then clearly be, that Grouchy was to endeavour to place his force on the inner Prussian flank and hold them back from Waterloo.

  • Their ministers were called barba, a Provencal word meaning guide.

  • In point of doctrine they acknowledged the seven sacraments, but gave them a symbolical meaning; they prayed to the Virgin and saints, and admitted auricular confession, but they denied purgatory and the sacrifice of the mass, and did not observe fasts or festivals.

  • There is more than one meaning of Syriac discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Rites are practised in the name of religion which are abhorrent to Yahweh, because they either have no moral meaning at all, and are mere forms.

  • In fact the modern equatorial, and the altitude and azimuth circle are astrolabes in the strictest and oldest meaning of the term; and Tycho in one of his astrolabes came so near the modern equatorial that it may be taken as the first of the kind.

  • From references which can be gathered from patristic writings it is abundantly evident that the belief in the mystical meaning of marks on the "organ of organs" was a part of the popular philosophy of their times.

  • That these purely mechanical arrangements have any psychic, occult or predictive meaning is a fantastic imagination, which seems to have a peculiar attraction for certain types of mind, and as there can be no fundamental hypothesis of correlation, its discussion does not lie within the province of reason.

  • There is more than one meaning of Eumenes discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Kharkov discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Seville discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The technical name, Notonecta, meaning "back-swimmer," alludes to the habit of the insect of swimming upside down, the body being propelled through the water by powerful strokes of the hind legs, which are fringed with hair and, when at rest, are extended laterally like a pair of sculls in a boat.

  • The etymology of the word is uncertain, but it has been taken to be connected with a root meaning "to twist."

  • The origin of its later name, meaning the "Baths of St Luke," is uncertain.

  • Of younger coins the first series has a king's head on the reverse, and the old obverse is enriched with two Sabaean monograms, which have been interpreted as meaning " majesty " and "eponymus " respectively.

  • Its meaning varies (a) according to the various definitions of deity, and especially (b) according as it is (i.) deliberately adopted by a thinker as a description of his own theological standpoint, or (ii.) applied by one set of thinkers to their opponents.

  • Voltaire himself, speaking as a practical man rather than as a metaphysician, declared that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent one; and if the analysis is only carried far enough it will be found that those who deny the existence of God (in a conventional sense) are all the time setting up something in the nature of deity by way of an ideal of their own, while fighting over the meaning of a word or its conventional misapplication.

  • There is more than one meaning of Lippe discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Free Church discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • But the real meaning is not slight; the sexual distinction has been discovered, and a new sense of shame sends the human pair into the thickest shades, when Yahweh-Elohim walks abroad.

  • More probably, however, this is but an accidental coincidence; both adam and adamu may come from the same Semitic root meaning "to make."

  • For the meaning of this is extremely problematical.

  • An example will serve to make the meaning of this limitation clearer.

  • There is more than one meaning of Corinth discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Kars discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Bombay discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • While Apostolic phrases are used, the sense behind them is often different and less evangelic. They have not caught the Apostolic meaning, because they have not penetrated to the full religious experience which gave to the words, often words with long and varied history both in the Septuagint and in ordinary Greek usage, their specific meaning to each apostle and especially to Paul.

  • There is more than one meaning of Simbirsk discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The name is a Chippewa word meaning "first" or "he goes before," and is said to have been chosen at the request of the Pioneer Iron Company as an equivalent for "Pioneer."

  • There is more than one meaning of Nicholas Ii discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Barcelona discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Edmonton discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Madras discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Though many syllables have to do duty for the expression of more than one idea, the majority have only one or at most two meanings, but there are some which are used with quite a number of different inflections, each of which gives the word a new meaning.

  • This "Palace language" appears to have come into existence from a desire to avoid the employment in the presence of royalty of downright expressions of vulgarity or of words which might be capable of conveying an unpleasant or indelicate idea other than the meaning intended.

  • There is more than one meaning of Wallingford discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • He was never in doubt as to his own meaning, and never at a loss for the most appropriate words in which to express it.

  • He was anxious to make sure that his readers would understand his exact meaning, and to guard them against all possible misconceptions.

  • Alfurese, a vague term meaning in the mouths of the natives little else than non-Mahommedan, has been more particularly applied by Dutch philologists to the native speech of certain tribes in Celebes.

  • There is more than one meaning of Mendoza discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Taken in its widest meaning, the Kuen-lun Mountains thus stretch in a wavy line for nearly 2 500 m.

  • Etymologically the correct form is Astin-tagh or Astun-tagh, meaning the Lower or Nearer Mountains.

  • With one exception, namely the climb out of the Kum-kol valley to the Arka-tagh, the first three steps are 1 This is the correct form, Arka-tagh meaning the Farther or Remoter Mountains.

  • There is more than one meaning of Cassel discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The style "Protestant" had, however, during the 19th century assumed a variety of new shades of meaning which necessarily made its particular application a somewhat hazardous proceeding.

  • There is more than one meaning of Sterling discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • In his hands Christianity became a new religion, fitted to meet the needs of all the world, and freed entirely of the local and national meaning which had hitherto attached to it.

  • Since the landed proprietors disposed of churches and convents, and the kings of bishoprics and abbeys, it became possible for them too to commit the sin of simony; hence a final expansion, in the iith century, of the meaning of the term.

  • This confirms the view that the Hebrew kipper, which appears to be a late word (specially employed in Ezek, and P.), originally had the meaning which belongs to the Aramaic viz.

  • There is more than one meaning of Iquitos discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • The variata edition was signed by Calvin, in the meaning, he said, of its author Melanchthon.

  • It arose from differences about the precise meaning of the word "law" in Luther's distinction between law and gospel.

  • Luther limited the meaning of the word to mean a definite command accompanied by threats, which counts on terror to produce obedience.

  • Thus, in the reign of Alexander, the fugitive serfs whom tyranny or idleness had driven into this wilderness (they were subsequently known as Kazaki, or Cossacks, a Tatar word meaning freebooters) were formed into companies (c. 1504) and placed at the disposal of the frontier starostas, or lord marchers, of Kaniev, Kamenets, Czerkask on the Don and other places.

  • The rank and file of the Tatar soldiery were known as Kazaki, or Cossacks, a word meaning "freebooters," and this term came to be applied indiscriminately to all the free dwellers in the Ukraine, or border-lands.

  • There is more than one meaning of Bassein discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • However definite may have been the ideas originally conveyed by these notes of time, their first meaning has long since been lost.

  • The word passed through graduations of meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of Geneva discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Castellon discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of John Armstrong discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Sprengel came very near to appreciating the meaning of cross-pollination in the life of plants when he states that "it seems that Nature is unwilling that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen."

  • In the New English Dictionary the earliest example of the word " classical " is the phrase " classical and canonical," found in the Europae Speculum of Sir Edwin Sandys (1599), and, as applied to a writer, it is explained as meaning " of the first rank or authority."

  • This exactly corresponds with the meaning of classicus in the above passage of Gellius.

  • The term Eudaemonia has been taken in a large number of senses, with consequent variations in the meaning of Eudaemonism.

  • In 1842 Hammer-Purgstall correctly explained the name as meaning the "warm-flowing" (tab= warm, same root as tep in "tepid") from some warm mineral springs in the neighbourhood, and compared it with the synonymous Teplitz in Bohemia.

  • Philo, De posteriori Caini, § 3, explains the name as meaning iroru ryos,"watering" or "irrigation," connecting it with the Hebrew root Sh Th Josephus, Ant.

  • Lastly, his Mouseion (a word of doubtful meaning) contained the narrative of the contest between Homer and Hesiod, two fragments of which are found in the 'Agon `Omerou Kai `Esiodou, the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian.

  • To the Polyphemidae, the wellknown family of the former tribe, Sars in 1897 added two remarkable genera, Cercopagis, meaning " tail with a sling," and Apagis, " without a sling," for seven species from the Sea of Azov.

  • The first legs, meaning thereby the sixth pair of appendages, are generally pediform and locomotive, but sometimes unjointed, acting as a kind of brushes to cleanse the furca, while in the Polycopidae they are entirely wanting.

  • In the latter case the middle segment almost always carries with it to the hind-body a pair of rudimentary limbs, whence the term Podoplea, meaning species that have a pleon with feet.

  • It then becomes the task of critical exegesis to interpret the text thus recovered so as to bring out the meaning intended by the original authors.

  • Beneath the ancient Greek version, the Septuagint, there certainly underlay an earlier form of the Hebrew text than that perpetuated by Jewish tradition, and if Christian scholars could have worked through the version to the underlying Hebrew text, they would often have come nearer to the original meaning than their Jewish contemporaries.

  • But this they could not do; and since the version, owing to the limitations of the translators, departs widely from the sense of the original, Christian scholars were on the whole kept much farther from the original meaning than their Jewish contemporaries, who used the Hebrew text; and later, after Jewish grammatical and philological study had been stimulated by intercourse with the Arabs, the relative disadvantages under which Christian scholarship laboured increased.

  • But if the New Testament be not itself the direct divine revelation in the sense of the 18th century, the question still remains, how we are to picture the true history of the rise of Christianity, what its true meaning is.

  • Consequently an exaggerated emphasis is often laid upon single words; as, for example, in the school of Rabbi `Agiba, where even individual letters were forced to reveal their meaning.

  • There is more than one meaning of Montserrat discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Apart from this general meaning of the word, the chief transferred use is that for a piece of wood used for various specific purposes, as a framework, bar, &c., such as the tree of a saddle, axle-tree, cross-tree, &c.

  • During the early middle ages this region was also known as Ma wara '1 Nahr or Ma-vera-un-nahr, the meaning of which is given in the alternative classical title of Transoxiana.

  • The celebrated Sainte Chapelle in Paris, attached to what is now the Palais de Justice, well illustrates the early and proper meaning of the word.

  • This, the primary meaning, survives in the chapels usually placed in the aisles of cathedrals and large churches.

  • To the mass these signs are unintelligible, because they deem it impossible that Yahweh should utterly cast off His chosen nation; but to those who know His absolute righteousness, and confront it with the people's sin, the impending approach of the Assyrian can have only one meaning and can point to only one issue, viz.

  • He gave a meaning to the myths of the popular religions, and he had something to say even for magic, soothsaying and prayer.

  • The logarithms to base io of the first twelve numbers to 7 places of decimals are log 1 =0.0000000 log 5 log 2 = 0.3010300 log 6 log 3 =0.477 121 3 log 7 log 4 =0.6020600 log 8 The meaning of these results is that The integral part of a logarithm is called the index or characteristic, and the fractional part the mantissa.

  • This equation defines log x for positive values of x; if o the formula ceases to have any meaning.

  • Prayer, drawn up probably by Cranmer 1 and Ridley in the time of Edward VI., and variously modified between then (1549) and 1661; (ii.) the meaning of the two sacraments, written on the suggestion of James I.

  • In addition to this simple meaning it has also, both in the philosophical and the colloquial speech of India a technical meaning, denoting "a person's deeds as determining his future lot."

  • During this long period he occupied himself with completing the constitutions by incorporating certain declarations, said to be Ignatian, which explained and sometimes completely altered the meaning of the original text.

  • It is true that when Gnosticism was at its height it numbered amongst its followers both theologians and men of science, but that is not its main characteristic. Among the majority of the followers of the movement " Gnosis " was understood not as meaning " knowledge " or " understanding," in our sense of the word, but " revelation."

  • The meaning of this figure in the Gnostic speculations is, however, clear.

  • Legend tells stories of his teaching men picture-writing and the calendar, and also the artistic work of the silversmith, for which Cholula was long famed; but at last he departed, some say towards the unknown land of Tlapallan, but others to Coatzacoalcos on the Atlantic coast on the confines of Central America, where native tradition still keeps up the divine names of Gucumatz among the Quiches and Cukulcan among the Mayas, these names have the same meaning as Quetzalcoati.

  • This classification of the Nahuatlac tribes has a meaning and value.

  • How they conveyed their meaning, how far they pictorially represented ideas or spelt words in the different languages of the country, is a question not yet answered in a complete way; Landa's description (p. 320) gives a table of a number of their elements as phonetically representing letters or syllables, but, though there may be a partial truth in his rules, they are insufficient or too erroneous to serve for any general decipherment.

  • It need mean no more (Lightfoot, Essays on Supernatural Religion, 172 seq.) than narratives of (or concerning) the Lord; on the other hand, the phrase is capable of a much more definite meaning, and there are many scholars who hold that it refers to a document which contained a collection of the sayings of Jesus.

  • We distinguish between animate and inanimate nature, but this classification has no meaning for the savage.

  • It was not until the 13th century that the symbolical meaning of the cross began to be elaborated, and this was still further accentuated from the 14th century onward by the increasingly widespread custom of adding to it the figure of the crucified Christ and other symbols of the Passion.

  • For the legend of his treatment by Cronus and its meaning, see Saturn.

  • There is more than one meaning of Ithaca discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • That name was soon changed to Tacoma, said to be a corruption of Ta-ho-ma or Ta-ho-bet, Indian terms meaning "greatest white peak," the name of the peak (14,526 ft.), also called Mt.

  • The word Sadism, meaning a form of sexual perversion, is derived from his name.

  • There is more than one meaning of Stavropol discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Nor let the obvious and first hand meaning of what I said about my flesh and blood disturb you when you hear it.

  • This reconstruction of its meaning seems to have been the peculiar revelation of the Lord to Paul, who viewed Christ's crucifixion and death as an atoning sacrifice, liberating by its grace mankind from bonds of sin which the law, far from snapping, only made more sensible and grievous.

  • Beck maintains that the real meaning of Kant's theory is idealism; that of objects outside the domain of consciousness, knowledge is impossible, and hence that nothing positive remains when we have removed the subjective element.

  • There is more than one meaning of Bern discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • There is more than one meaning of Rome discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

  • Further, a, corrector may propose the right word with the wrong meaning.

  • Again, it is not unlikely that the Politics was arranged in the traditional order of books by Theophrastus, and that this is the meaning of the curious title occurring in the list of Aristotle's works as given by Diogenes Laertius, rroXcTCKns IcKpoavEC.os ws OeocApa6Tov a'13'y'8'E'srrt', which agrees with the Politics in having eight books.

  • Finally, the treatise concludes with saying that the limit of gentlemanliness has thus been stated, meaning that its limit is the service and contemplation of God and the control of desire by reason.

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