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• Metaphysics
  The word derives from the Greek words ''μετά (metá)'' (meaning "beyond" or "after") and ''φυσικά ...m/index.php?term=metaphysics |title=Online Etymology Dictionary] While its Greek and Latin origins are clear, various dictionaries trace its first appearanc
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• Translation
  ...," and the language that it is to be translated into is called the "target language"; the final product is sometimes called the "target text." ...aught with the potential for "spilling over" of idioms and usages from one language into the other, since both languages coexist within the translator's [[mind
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• Francois Fenelon
  ...ch provided Fénelon with a thorough grounding in the [[Ancient Greek|Greek language]] and [[classics]]. In 1667, at age 12, he was sent to the [[University of
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• Messiah
  ....etymonline.com/index.php?term=messiah]. The [[New Testament]] records the Greek transliteration Μεσσίας, ''Messias'', twice, in [[Gospel of John|Joh ...that [[Jesus]] was the Messiah; the very name of "Christian" refers to the Greek word for 'Messiah': ''Khristos'' (χριστος). Christians commonly refe
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• Ethics
  '''Ethics''' (via [[Latin]] from the [[Ancient Greek]] grc [[ἠθική]] [[φιλοσοφία]] "moral philosophy", from the [ ...e [[Wittgenstein]], he was frequently concerned with clarifying the use of language in the field — for example, he suggested that the effects of [[psychiatri
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• Heinrich Heine-Bk.1
  ...presented to the French public and which have also appeared in the German language as the series of articles “On the History of More Recent Fine Literature ...nothing but disciplinary arguments which affect church interests, in which ancient Roman legal casuistry and art of government reappear in new formulations an
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• Urantia Book Etymology & Human Languages
  ...sillusionment]] from a [[linguistic]] inquiry of its pages. Names, and all language are [[metaphors]] -- symbolic designations of realities, couched in greater ...t that "God" is an obvious Anglicism, and certainly [[English]] is not the language of currency in [[Paradise]], no more than is [[Latin]] or [[Hebrew]]. Never
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• Anger
  ....[3] The [[English]] term originally comes from the term angr of Old Norse language.[4] ...nal expression of anger can be found in facial [[expression]]s, [[body]] [[language]], physiological responses, and at times in [[public]] [[act]]s of aggressi
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• Perfection
  The form of the word long fluctuated in various languages. The English language had the alternates, "perfection" and the Biblical "perfectness."[2] ...rfectio" or the modern "perfection." To avoid the latter associations, the Greek term has generally been translated as "completeness" rather than "perfectio
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• El
  The word El was found at the top of a list of gods as the Ancient of gods or the Father of all gods, in the ruins of the Royal Library of the :With oaths of Heaven and Ancient Earth.
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• God
  ...in Ulfilas' Gothic translation of the [[New Testament]], to represent the Greek ''Theos''. In the [[English]] language the capitalization continues to represent a distinction between monotheisti
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• Garden of Eden
  ...ge|Akkadian]] word ''[[edinu]]'', which itself derives from the [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] term <small>E.DIN</small>. The Sumerian term means steppe, plain ...sary is sent north through "Seven Gates", also known as Mountain passes in ancient texts. Hebrew lore includes references to Seven layers of Heaven, the 7th b
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• Irony
  '''Irony''' (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία ''eironeía'', meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned i ...speakers. Regardless of the various ways theorists categorize figurative [[language]] types, people in conversation are attempting to decode speaker intentions
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• Chemistry
  '''Chemistry''' (from [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] ''kēme'' (chem), meaning [[Classical element|"earth"]] '''See:' ...als (e.g. [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|metallurgy in ancient India]]). The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its pu
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• Paper 195 - After Pentecost
  ...aul]] carried the [[Christian]] [[message]] to the [[gentiles]], and the [[Greek]] [[believers]] carried it to the whole [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma ...ilosophies]]. The peoples of the [[Western world]], the beneficiaries of [[Greek]] [[culture]], had a revered [[tradition]] of a great [[past]]. They could
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• Novel
  ...of [[Heliodorus of Emesa|Heliodorus]] and [[Longus]] et al.). The ancient Greek romance was revived by [[Byzantine novel]]ists of the twelfth century. All ...to determine how much the early "romance" owed to [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] models and how much to northern folkloric verse epics such as [[Beowulf]]
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• Genesis
  '''Genesis''' בְּרֵאשִׁית, Greek: Γένεσις, meaning "birth", "creation", "cause", "beginning", "source ...earth, and the city "was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth."Hebrew ''Babal'', "confusion"; but if the story is based
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• Information
  As a final note, the ancient Greek word for ''form'' was eidos, and this word was famously used in a technical ...e receiver. Many refinements of the model assume the existence of a common language understood by the sender and at least one of the receivers. An important va
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• Paper 156 - The Sojourn at Tyre and Sidon
  ...Zelotes]] to remonstrate with Norana. Said Simon: " [[Woman]], you are a [[Greek]]-speaking [[gentile]]. It is not right that you should [[expect]] [[the Ma ...fully than the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews]. Many of these [[Greek]]-speaking [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_biblical_na
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• Paper 80 - Andite Expansion in the Occident
  80:3.1 The [[ancient]] [[centers]] of the [[culture]] of the blue man were located along all the ...osts of [[culture]] to the west that a great many of the advances in early Greek civilization [[persisted]] in the later peoples of [https://en.wikipedia.or
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