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  • Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
    ...ews/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t29 '''''Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language'''''] ...ting, [[etymology]], [[pidgin]], [[poetry]], [[sexism]], [[Shakespeare]]'s language, and [[slang]]. Features include pieces on place-names, borrowings from oth
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  • ABELL
    ...ish language, [[tradition]]al [[culture]] and English Literature. Covers [[English]], American and Commonwealth writers. Its sources are [[Books]], [[periodic
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  • Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised)
    ...sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t140 '''''The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised)'''''] ...[[language]]. It is at the forefront of language [[research]], focusing on English as it is used today, and has a unique defining style, with the modern [[mea
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  • Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
    ...og.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t30 '''''Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage'''''] ...nglish, the new edition answers your most frequently asked questions about language use.
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  • Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
    ...eatures expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evid
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  • Oxford English Dictionary at duPont
    '''''[https://0-www.oed.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/ Oxford English Dictionary]''''' ...onary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last
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  • Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary (English-Irish)
    ...reference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t145a (Irish-English)] ...ry is intended for learners of Irish and for all those interested in the [[language]].
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  • Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary (Irish-English)
    ...oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t145b (English-Irish)] ...ry is intended for learners of Irish and for all those interested in the [[language]].
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  • Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English)
    ....oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t66b (English-Italian)] ...mar]]. Including complete coverage of contemporary idiomatic Italian and [[English]], both written and spoken, The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary covers the
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  • Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin)
    ...reference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t131a (Latin-English)] ...st years of studying Latin, as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world.
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  • Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English)
    ...oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t131b (English-Latin)] ...ears of studying [[Latin]], as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world.
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  • Concise Oxford English Dictionary
    ...atalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t23 '''''The Concise Oxford English Dictionary'''''] ...yday words including scientific and technical [[vocabulary]], as well as [[English]] from around the world. This revised edition of the dictionary has been up
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  • Dialect
    ...other regional varieties and constituting [[together]] with them a single language <the Doric dialect of ancient [[Greek]]> :c : a variety of a [[language]] used by the members of a [[group]] <such dialects as [[politics]] and adv
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  • Corpora
    A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpu ...(base) form of each word. When the language of the corpus is not a working language of the researchers who use it, interlinear glossing is usedto make the anno
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  • Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
    ....sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t28 '''''The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar'''''] ...[[phonetics]] and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar.
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  • Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
    ...elected by leading Slavic scholars in the USA who carefully guided English language translations. CDPSP Digital Archive paints a broad picture of life in Sovie
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  • Canadian Oxford Dictionary
    ...he result of thorough research into the language and Oxford's unparalleled language resources.
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  • Latin
    ...some extent variable, compared with mostly [[analytic]] languages such as English, which has lost the ancient noun-case system inherited from [[Proto-Indo-Eu ...y words adapted from Latin are found in other modern languages—including [[English]], half of whose vocabulary is derived, directly or indirectly, from Latin.
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  • Riddle
    ...N_PERIOD Old English] rǣdelse [[opinion]], conjecture, riddle; akin to Old English rǣdan to [[interpret]] — more at [[read]] ...are problems generally [[expressed]] in [[metaphorical]] or allegorical [[language]] that require ingenuity and careful [[thinking]] for their solution, and c
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  • Gullibility
    ...th century. The first attestation of ''gullibility'' known to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] appears in 1793, and ''gullible'' in 1825. The OED gives gulli ...pear in the 1900 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_English_Dictionary New English Dictionary].
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  • Jargon
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French jargun, gargon *1a : [[confused]] unintelligible [[language]]
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  • David Crystal
    ...ew up bilingual in Welsh and [[English]], which influenced his approach to language education. ...tron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).
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  • Loquacious
    Fluency is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_language_pathology speech language pathology] term that means the smoothness or [[flow]] with which [[sounds]] ...rategies, and inaccurate word use. They may be illiterate, as well. Native language speakers are often incorrectly referred to as fluent.
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  • King James Bible
    ...nearly three centuries. Arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies, this fully searchable online version presents the full te ...the whole Church. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies. The text of the ‘He’ version contained here comprises
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  • Blessing
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] blǣdsian (preserved in the Northumbrian dialect around 950 AD).[1] The te ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] during the [[process]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization
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  • Motto
    ...A motto may be in any [[language]], but Latin is the most used. The local language is usual in the mottos of [[governments]]. In [[English]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_heraldry Scottish heraldry] m
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  • Anthology
    The word entered the [[English]] language in the seventeenth century, from the [[Greek]] word, ἀνθολογία (a ...d textual excerpts. Shortly before anthology had entered the [[language]], English had begun using "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellany miscellany]" as
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  • Corpus
    A corpus may contain texts in a single [[language]] (monolingual corpus) or text [[data]] in multiple languages (multilingual ...(base) form of each word. When the language of the corpus is not a working language of the researchers who use it, interlinear glossing is used to make the ann
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  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    '''''Encyclopedia of Philosophy''''', the ten volume [[English]]-language reference source for [[philosophy]]," has been the cornerstone of the philo
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  • Oxford Dictionaries Online
    *'''''[https://english.oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford Dictionaries Online]''''' Modern English dictionary and language reference service with detailed writing, grammar, and spelling guidance.
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  • Transcripts
    ...is the conversion into written, typewritten or printed form, of a spoken [[language]] source, such as the [[proceedings]] of a [[court]] hearing. It can also m ...honetic transcription of the name of the former Russian president known in English as Boris Yeltsin, followed by accepted hybrid forms in various languages. N
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  • Etymology
    ...rd. For example, [[Latin]] candidus, which means "white", is the etymon of English candid. ...tracing it and its cognates to a common [[ancestral]] form in an ancestral language.
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  • ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
    Digitized collection of 150,000 English and foreign language books, pamphlets, broadsides and other ephemera published in the U.K. and t The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings
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  • 0:0 The Foreword
    ...h]] revealers have been authorized to [[translate]] into the [[English]] [[language]] of [[Urantia]]. ...ce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed finds no terminology in English which can be employed to convey such a new concept partially or even with m
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  • Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
    ...hese and hundreds of other questions that bedevil those who care about the language. Garner draws on a host of evidence to support his judgements, citing thous
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  • Heritage
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from ''heriter'' to inherit, from Late Latin ''heredit ...nd [[artifacts]]), intangible culture (such as folklore, [[traditions]], [[language]], and [[knowledge]]), and natural heritage (including culturally-significa
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  • Martyr
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English], from Late Latin, from [[Greek]] martyr-, martys [[witness]] ...ing]] and/or [[death]]. The term, in this later sense, entered the English language as a loanword. The death of a martyr or the value attributed to it is calle
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  • Terminology
    Medieval Latin terminus term, [[expression]] (from [[Latin]], limit) + [[English]] -o- + -logy ...ge]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Language '''''this link'''''].</center>
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  • Native
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] natif, from Middle French, from [[Latin]] nativus, from natus, past partic ...fly Australian : having a usually superficial resemblance to a specified [[English]] plant or [[animal]]
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  • Clerk
    ...ve]] tasks. In American English, this includes shop staff, but in British English, such people are known as shop assistants and are not considered to be cler
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  • Cowardice
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] cowardise, from Anglo-French coardise, from cuard ...ords of French [[origin]], this [[word]] was introduced in the [[English]] language by the French-speaking Normans, after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No
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  • Doom
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] dōn to do ...wn [[native]] [[language]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English Old English], to [[express]] the '''''dooms''''', or [[laws]] and [[judgement]]s, which
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  • Chinese
    ...ry, who are often simply referred to as "Chinese" or "ethnic Chinese" in [[English]]. ==Chinese-language terms==
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  • Idiom
    ...''idiome'', from Late Latin ''idioma'' [[individual]] [[peculiarity]] of [[language]], from [[Greek]] ''idiōmat''-, ''idiōma'', from ''idiousthai'' to approp *1a : the [[language]] peculiar to a people or to a district, [[community]], or class : [[dialec
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  • Alphabet
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] alphabete, from Late [[Latin]] alphabetum, from [[Greek]] alphabētos, fr ...ents]] a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme phoneme] in a [[spoken]] [[language]], either as it exists now or as it was in the [[past]]. There are other [[
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  • Parse
    ...mbols]], either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language natural language] or in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_languages computer languages ...efers to the way that human beings analyze a sentence or phrase (in spoken language or [[text]]) "in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the [https:
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  • Phonaesthetics
    ...iety as the reputedly most euphonic sound combination of the [[English]] [[language]] (specifically, when spoken with a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_ * Ross Smith, Inside Language - Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien, Walking Tree Publishers (2007
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  • Condemn
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French condempner, from [[Latin]] condemnare, from com- + damn .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language Proto-Indo-European] [[language]] [[origin]] is usually said to be a root dap-, which appears in [[Latin]]
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  • Prose
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] prosa, from [[feminine]] of prorsus, p *1 a : the ordinary [[language]] people use in [[speaking]] or [[writing]]
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  • LexisNexis Academic
    ...ews, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, and non-English language sources, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, l
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  • Symbol
    ==Language and symbols==
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  • Blasphemy
    ..."reputation". From blasphemare also came Old French blasmer, from which [[English]] "blame" came. Sometimes the word "blasphemy" is used loosely to mean any profane [[language]], for example: "With much hammering and blasphemy, the locomotive's replac
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  • Data
    '''Data''' in everyday language is a [[synonym]] for [[information]] [https://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Di ==Usage in English==
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  • 2008-05-26-Spanish 11:11
    ...et still connected with the group that instigated this work in a ‘foreign’ language. “We do expect that in reality very little will change. The English human contingent counts some 25 odd people. The Spanish group will also gr
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  • Message
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Medieval [[Latin]] missaticum, from Latin missus * Any [[thought]] or [[idea]] [[expressed]] in a [[language]], prepared in a [[form]] suitable for transmission by any means of communi
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  • Barbarism
    ...rian" either described a foreign [[individual]] or [[tribe]] whose first [[language]] was not [[Greek]] or a Greek individual or tribe speaking Greek crudely.
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  • Candy
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''sugre candy'', part [[translation]] of Middle French ''sucre candi'', fr
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  • Shamans
    ...nd indeed is "the only commonly used English word that is a loan from this language". ISBN 1557865604 ...uage usage, shaman has become interchangeable with the older [[English]] [[language]] pejorative term ''[[witch doctor]]''. This is anthropologically inaccurat
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  • Wiktionary
    ...information typically found in thesauruses and lexicons. Additionally, the English Wiktionary now includes ''Wikisaurus'', a category that serves as a thesaur
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  • Index to Jewish Periodicals
    Provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devot
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  • Medium
    ==English== *:[[Rhymes:English:-iːdiəm|Rhymes: -iːdiəm]]
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  • Language
    ...language. In some cases, this involves disentangling folk uses of the term language from scientific uses. ...uage''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Language '''''this link'''''].</center>
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  • Learning curve
    ...ford English Dictionary]], The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary define a learning curve as t
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  • Rhyme
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''rime'', from Anglo-French ...#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] (Old English rīm [[meaning]] "enumeration, series, numeral") and Old High German rīm,
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  • Ethnic
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ethnicus, from [[Greek]] ethnikos national, gentile, from ...rom the 14th century through the middle of the 19th century were used in [[English]] in the meaning of "[[pagan]], heathen", as ethnikos was used as the LXX t
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  • Oxford Dictionary of Law
    ...in the UK or any Commonwealth country where the legal system is founded on English law.
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  • Shalom
    ...n many other expressions and names. Its equivalent [[cognate]] in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] is ''[[salaam]]'' and ''sälam'' in [[Ethiopian Semitic languages] ...n]]-[[lamedh|lamed]]-[[mem]] (ש.ל.ם), which has cognates in many [[Semitic language]]s, came to be connected with concepts of ''completeness'', ''fulfilment'',
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  • Proverb
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] proverbe, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] proverbium, from pro- + verbum ...[[cultures]], and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. Both the [[Bible]] ([[Book of Proverbs|Book of Proverbs]]) and medieval La
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  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
    ...lary]] for everyday [[Archaeology|archaeological]] work in the [[English]] language, this up-to-date dictionary is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of i
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  • Sanskrit
    ...skrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil which have already been given the classical-language status.'' and one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and [[Buddha|Budd ...age]], and one of the earliest attested members of the [[Indo-European]] [[language]] family.
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  • Vocabulary
    *2a : a sum or stock of words employed by a [[language]], [[group]], [[individual]], or [[work]] or in a field of [[knowledge]] ...]'s '''vocabulary''' is the set of [[words]] they are familiar with in a [[language]]. A vocabulary usually [[grows]] and evolves with age, and serves as a use
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  • Worship
    ...ly directed to one or more [[deity|deities]]. It is the informal term in [[English]] for what [[Sociology|sociologists]] call a ''[[cult|cultus]]'', the [[bod In its older sense in the [[English]] language of ''worthiness'' or ''respect'' (Anglo-Saxon ''weorðscipe''), ''worship''
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  • Hebrews
    ...as a synonym for Israelites, and sometimes for the users of the [[Hebrew]] language ([[Jews]] and [[Israel]]is). From Middle English ''Ebreu'' Old French ''Ebreu'' Latin ''Hebraeus'' or ''Hebraic'', Ancient G
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  • Plagiarism
    ...es." "''Plagiary''", a derivative of "''plagiarus''" was introduced into [[English]] in 1601 by dramatist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson Ben Jonson The derived form ''plagiarism'' was introduced into English around 1620. The Latin ''plagiārius'', "kidnapper", and ''plagium'', "kidn
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  • Words
    A '''word''' is a unit of [[language]] that represents a [[concepts|concept]] which can be expressively [[commun ...m and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. A word consisting of two or more s
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  • Truth
    ...C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''trēowth'' [[fidelity]]; akin to Old English ''trēowe'' faithful ...th continue to be debated among scholars, philosophers, and theologians. [[Language]] and words are a means by which humans convey [[information]] to one anoth
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  • Zero
    ...ic صفر, ṣafira = "it was empty", ṣifr = "zero", "nothing". The first known English use was in 1598. ...d "to keep the rows". This circle was called صفر (ṣifr, "empty") in Arabic language. That was the earliest mention of the name ''ṣifr'' that eventually becam
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  • World War II
    ...Second World War, for example ''Zweiter Weltkrieg'' in German. Non-English-language use typically translates to Second World War, for instance the Spanish ''Se
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  • Mindfulness
    The [[Buddhist]] term translated into [[English]] as "mindfulness" originates in the Pali term sati and its Sanskrit counte ...s_Davids Thomas William Rhys Davids] (1881) first [[translated]] sati as [[English]] mindfulness in sammā-sati "Right Mindfulness; the active, watchful [[min
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  • Autumn
    ...fall in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_English American] [[English]]) is one of the four [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate temperate] [ ...ly those who could [[read]] and [[write]], the only people whose use of [[language]] we now know), the word harvest lost its [[reference]] to the time of year
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  • Project
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] projecte, from Medieval [[Latin]] projectum, from Latin, neuter of project When the [[English]] [[language]] initially adopted the [[word]], it referred to a plan of something, not t
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  • Sermon
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French sermun, from Medieval Latin sermon-, sermo, from [[Lati .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] [[word]] which was derived from an Old French term, which in turn came fro
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  • Whisper
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] hwisperian; akin to Old High German hwispalōn to whisper, Old Norse hvīs ...he IPA for whispered phonation, since it is not used phonemically in any [[language]]. However, a sub-dot under phonemically voiced segments is sometimes seen
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  • Deafness
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''dēaf''; akin to [[Greek]] ''typhlos'' [[blind]], ''typhein'' to smoke, ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''dēaf'', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ''doof'' and German ''taub
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  • Symbols
    ...in the story are in this category: the monarch, the robe, the scepter, the language, the subjects. ...[[Middle English]], from [[Old French]], from [[Latin]], from the [[Greek language|Greek]] σύμβολον (''sýmbolon'') from the root words συν- (''syn
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  • Forest
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Late Latin forestis (silva) unenclosed (woodland) ...e generally. By the start of the fourteenth century the word appeared in [[English]] [[texts]], indicating all three [[senses]]: the most common one, the lega
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  • Sarcasm
    ...flesh; probably akin to Avestan thwarəs- to cut. It is first recorded in [[English]] in 1579, in an annotation to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shepheard ...al wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often [[ironic]] [[language]] that is usually directed against an [[individual]]
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  • 2019-02-12-The Tipping Point and Patience
    ...glish, Spanish or Mandarin but where it concerns coming to an [[eventual]] language for all or for most — here we go again, ‘tipping point’ — both the
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  • Mores
    ...tantum term borrowed from Latin, which has been used in the [[English]] [[language]] since the 1890s. The [[English]] [[word]] [[morality]] comes from the same [[root]], as does the noun mora
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  • Numerology
    [[Latin]] ''numerus'' + English -''o- + -logy'' ...story of numerological [[ideas]], the word "numerology" is not recorded in English before c.1907.
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  • Vulgar
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] vulgaris of the mob, vulgar, from volgus, vulgus mob, comm *5 a : offensive in [[language]] : [[earth]]y
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  • Quiescent
    Quiescence (kwē-ĕs-ənts) is a [[Latin]]-derived [[English]] language noun referring to a [[state]] of [[being]] quiet, still, at rest, dormant,
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  • Pride
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] prȳde, from prūd proud ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''prut'', probably from Old French ''prud'' "[[brave]], valiant" (11th cen
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  • Slang
    ...''slengenamn'', which means "nickname"), but is discounted by the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] based on "date and early associations". *1 : [[language]] peculiar to a particular [[group]]: as a : argot
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  • Supposition
    ...[[signifies]] a cup as an object, but cup as a term of the [[language]] [[English]] is being used to supposit for the wine contained in the cup. ...e cup the term cup is standing in for the object that is called a cup in [[English]], so it is in personal supposition. A term is in improper supposition, if
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  • Art Index Retrospective
    ...years of art journalism at a keystroke. Users can research leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dut
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  • Rumor
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] rēon to lament, [[Sanskrit]] rauti he roars # Pendleton, S.c. (1998), 'Rumor research revisited and expanded', Language& Communication, vol. 1. no. 18, pp. 69--86.
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  • Inflection
    ...nse (future). The use of this suffix is an inflection. In contrast, in the English clause "I will lead", the word "lead" is not inflected for any of person, n ...] (a unit of meaning which cannot stand alone as a word). For example, the English word "cars" is a noun that is inflected for number, specifically to express
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  • City
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] citie large or small town, from Anglo-French cité, from Medieval [[Latin] ...] on how a city is distinguished from a town within general [[English]] [[language]] [[meanings]], many cities have a particular [[administrative]], [[legal]]
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  • Plough
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] plōh hide of [[land]]; akin to Old High German pfluog plow ...icultural implement at 3a, sulh, [[survived]] in western and south-western English [[dialects]] (those spoken in the areas least [[influenced]] by Norse settl
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  • Concepts
    ...in symbols. On other accounts, mastery of symbolic thought (in particular, language) is a prerequisite for conceptual thought. ...erro'' in Spanish. The fact that concepts are in some sense independent of language makes [[translation]] possible - words in various languages have identical
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  • Diaspora
    ...cultural development of that population or to that population itself. In [[English]] when capitalized and without modifiers (that is simply, the Diaspora), th ...t Churches on the continent". The term became more widely assimilated into English by the mid 1950s, with long-term expatriates in significant numbers from ot
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  • Bigotry
    ...s [[unknown]], but it may have come from the German bei and gott, or the [[English]] by God. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Camden William Camden] wro ...but it is unclear whether or not this is how it entered the [[English]] [[language]].
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  • Idols
    Middle [[English]]. a. Old French. id(e)le, and idole, ad. late L. dl-um (also dl-um in Prud
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  • 2011-05-13-New Transmission System
    ...he original message that follows was in French and has been translated for English audiences] ...we think we will attempt to try with T/ R’s who speak languages other than English.
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  • Complement
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] complementum, from complēre to fill up, complete, from co ...ant digit farthest to the left is discarded —used especially in assembly [[language]] programming
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  • Stupid
    Since entering the English language, Since then, stupidity has taken place along with "[[fool]]," "[[idiot]],"
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  • Monk
    ...[[Greek]] [[language]] the term can apply to men or women; but in modern [[English]] it is in use only for men, while nun is used for female monastics. Although the term monachos (“monk”) is of Christian origin, in the English language it tends to be used analogously or loosely also for ascetics from other rel
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  • Lie
    ...-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''lyge''; akin to Old High German ''lugī'', Old English ''lēogan'' to lie ..."), usually with the corresponding [[tone]] of [[voice]] and emphatic body language of one confidently speaking the [[truth]]. Bold-faced lie can also refer to
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  • Feeling
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''félan'' (also ''gefélan'') [[corresponds]] to Old Frisian ''fêla'', O The [[word]] was first used in the [[English]] [[language]] to describe the [[physical]] sensation of [[touch]] through either [[expe
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  • Abstraction
    ...ommunicate]] their solutions with the computer in some particular computer language. * The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin (1992), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44
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  • Wand
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] windan to wind, twist ...t, hand-held stick of wood, stone, ivory, or metal. Generally, in modern [[language]], wands are [[ceremonial]] and/or have [[associations]] with [[magic]] but
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  • Tone
    Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or ...tone. Furthermore, tone tends to play almost no grammatical role (the Jin language of Shanxi being a notable exception). In many tonal African languages, such
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  • Urantia
    ...[[truth]] revealers have been authorized to translate into the [[English]] language of Urantia.
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  • River
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] rivere, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *riparia, from [[Latin]], fem ...n a creek, but this is not always the case, because of vagueness in the [[language]].
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  • Taboo
    The use of taboo in [[English]] dates back to 1777 when English explorer, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_James_Cook Captain James C ...rm comes from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_language Tongan] [[language]], and appears in many [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_culture Po
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  • Chastity
    ...djective castus [[meaning]] "[[pure]]". The words entered the [[English]] language around the middle of the 13th century; at that time they meant slightly [[d
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  • Fugitive
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Middle French & [[Latin]]; Middle French fugitif, from Latin fugitiv ...ncken]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Language The American Language] and The Thesaurus of American Slang [[proclaim]] that lam, lamister, and "
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  • Dictation
    :b. b. The [[transcription]] of a dictated passage, esp. one in a foreign language, as a [[school]] exercise; a passage [[transcribed]] in this way. ..., the dictations are the subject of structured championships, similar to [[English]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_bee spelling bees].
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  • Mantras
    ...view of [[polytheism]] and many of its [[concept]]s. In short, "mantra" in English carries a negative connotation of 'mindless or thoughtless repetition of a ...f the concepts that each character represented. The Chinese prized written language much more highly than did the Indian Buddhist missionaries, and the writing
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  • Womanhood
    ...ce]] regardless of their [[sex]] or age. This is the old usage of "Man" in English. It derives from Proto-Indo-European *mánu- 'man, human', cognate to [[San ...a man" and "a woman" respectively, and "Man" was gender-neutral. In Middle English man displaced wer as term for "male human", whilst wifman (which eventually
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  • Ten
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] tīene, from tīen, adjective, ten; akin to Old High German zehan ten, [[ ...on [[system]] of denoting [[numbers]] in both [[spoken]] and [[written]] [[language]]. Ten is the first two-digit [[number]] in [[decimal]] and thus the lowest
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  • English
    [[Image:English.jpg|right|frame]] ...he most profound outside influences on the development of PDE (present day english) are the [[Viking]] conquests and settlements--resulting in the establishme
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  • Artifacts
    #: Ref: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the [[English|English Language]], Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 08 Mar. 2007.
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  • Spiritualism
    ...he 1920s, especially in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglosphere English-language countries], By 1897, it was said to have more than eight million followers
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  • Definition
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] diffinicioun, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] definition-, definitio, fr ...n etymology showing snapshots of the earlier meanings and the [[parent]] [[language]].
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  • Human
    ...ns have a highly developed [[brain]], capable of abstract [[reasoning]], [[language]], [[inner life|introspection]], and problem solving. This mental capabilit ...ki/index.php?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD Modern English].[7] The word is from Proto-Germanic *mannaz, from a Proto-[https://en.wiki
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  • Intent
    ...e accomplished through exploiting technicalities, loopholes, and ambiguous language. Following the letter of the law but not the spirit is also a tactic used a ...has entered the language as a pejorative for one who does so; the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] defines ''Pharisee'' with one of the meanings as ''A person of
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  • Siphon
    ...that involve the [[flow]] of liquids through tubes. But in the [[English]] language today, the [[word]] siphon usually refers to a tube in an inverted U shape
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  • Aztec
    ...oups who spoke the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl_language Nahuatl language] and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Meso ...he Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who like them, also spoke the Nahuatl language. In this meaning it is possible to talk about an '''Aztec civilization''' i
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  • Liquor
    ...be liquid + -or -or1 ); r. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle Englsih] lic ( o ) ur < ...ford English Dictionary]], an early use of the [[word]] in the [[English]] language, meaning simply "a liquid," can be dated to 1225. The first use that the OE
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  • Conation
    ...longer widely known—it is in "The 1,000 Most Obscure Words in the English Language," defined as "the area of one's active mentality that has to do with [[desi ...iving," and by the ''Living Webster Encyclopedia Dictionary of the English Language'' (1980) as "one of the three [[modes]], together with [[cognition]] and [[
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  • Automatic Writing
    ...that her "Martian" language had a strong resemblance to Ms. Smith's native language of French. Flournoy concluded that her automatic writing was "[[romance]]s The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] implies that '''Automatic Writing''' is that writing done by a
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  • Malapropism
    ...o the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of "malapropos" in English is from 1630, and the first person known to have used the word "malaprop" i ...e [[process]] is by which the [[brain]] [[translates]] [[thoughts]] into [[language]].
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  • Classics
    ...lassical Studies''' is the branch of the [[Humanities]] dealing with the [[language]]s, [[literature]], [[history]], [[art]], and other aspects of the ancient ...'[[Literae Humaniores]]'', comprising the study of Ancient Greek and Latin language and literature, Greek and Roman art and archaeology, history and philosophy
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  • Verbosity
    ...ed with "to"). The opposites of verbosity are [[plain]] language (or plain English) and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconism laconism].
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  • Subversion
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Late Latin subversion-, subversio, from [[Latin]] ....org/wiki/14th_century 14th century], it was being used in the [[English]] language with [[reference]] to [[laws]], and in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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  • Synoptic Gospels
    ...y a high degree of similarity in [[content]], [[narrative]] arrangement, [[language]], and sentence and paragraph [[structure]]s. These gospels are also consi # "synoptic". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
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  • Macrocosm and Microcosm
    ...and &#x03bc;&#x03b9;&#x03ba;&#x03c1;&#x03bf;- "Micro-", which are [[Greek language|Greek]] respectively for "large" and "small", and the word [[Cosmos|&#x03ba The English physician and alchemist [[Robert Fludd]] (1574-1637) expicitly based his wo
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  • 2007-04-01-Depression
    ...n the dictionary. The first thing you realize is that the wondrous English language, once again, has applied several meanings to one word, which in other langu ...of meanings to just one word. English has been described as the shorthand language, but it also can be quite confusing.
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  • 2013-06-04-Of Attaining Perfection
    ...erstanding each other, and, incidentally, our improving use of the English language is an important part of why we can be at ease with each other. Our countles ...cause they do not live in your town, your country. They might well speak a language you do not understand. They might well have an education unlike yours – c
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  • Pornography
    ...e French language during the 1800s. The word did not enter the [[English]] language as the familiar conjunction until 1857 or as a French import in [https://en
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  • Scripture
    ...nd modern '':fr:écriture''. The oldest English usage cited in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (OED) is from ''Cursor Mund]'' (''c''. 1300): "For-þi es godd The word was coined in 1250-1300, during the Middle English period, from the [[Latin]] word, ''scriptura'', meaning "writing." [https:/
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  • Sentence
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''sententia'' [[feeling]], [[opinion]], ...hat must [explicitly] include a subject and a verb. For example, in second-language acquisition, teachers often reject one-word answers that only imply a claus
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  • Conscience
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] conscientia, from conscient-, consciens ...determined, with its subject matter probably learned, or imprinted (like [[language]]) as part of a [[culture]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience]
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  • Design
    Being defined so broadly, there is no [[universal]] [[language]] or unifying institution for designers of all [[disciplines]]. This allows # See dictionary meanings in the Cambridge Dictionary of American English, at Dictionary.com (esp. meanings 1-5 and 7-8) and at AskOxford (esp. verbs
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  • Parable
    ...stions for proper action in life, parables frequently use [[metaphor]]ical language which allows people to more easily discuss difficult or complex ideas. In [ ...Fables'', George Fyler Townsend defined "parable" as "the designed use of language purposely intended to convey a hidden and secret meaning other than that co
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  • Scroll
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''scrowle'', blend of ''rolle'' roll and ''scrowe'' scrap, scroll (from An ...ritten in lines from the top to the bottom of the page. Depending on the [[language]], the letters may be written left to right, right to left, or alternating
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  • 2012-07-19-DNA Changes and Justice on Urantia
    ...transmitted from there, and is being immediately translated to the English language by your Thought Adjuster."
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  • Spirituality in Three Theories of Psychology: A Qualitative Study
    Language:English
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  • Semiotics
    ...k: σημειωτικός, semeiotikos, an interpreter of signs), was first used in [[English]] by Henry Stubbes (1670, p. 75) in a very precise sense to denote the bran ...their language. But that word can transmit that meaning only within the [[language]]'s grammatical [[structure]]s and [[code]]s (see syntax and semantics). Co
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  • Samaritans
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English], from Late Latin samaritanus, noun & adjective, from [[Greek]] samaritēs With the revival of [[Hebrew]] as a spoken language by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah Jewish immigrants] to [[Israel]],
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  • Polytheism
    The [[English]] [[language]] word "polytheism" is attested from the 17th century, loaned from French p
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  • Polarity
    ...absence of the modifier ''not'', which negates the statement. Many other [[language]]s contain similar modifiers: Italian and Interlingua have ''non'', Spanish
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  • Empire
    ...araguay and in the Philippines; the British Empire established itself with English in northern North America; elsewhere, despite Russian not supplanting the i # The Oxford English Reference Dictionary, Second Edition (2001), p.461, ISBN 0-19-860046-1
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  • John Donne
    .... His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense [[knowledge]] of English [[society]] and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another importa ...org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Most_Eminent_English_Poets Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets]''), Johnson refers to the beginning of the seventeenth century in wh
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  • Papyrus
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], via [[Latin]] from Greek ''papuros'' — see also [[paper]]
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  • Narcotics
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''narkotik'', from Middle French ''narcotique'', from ''narcotique'', adje ...ic principle to opium and tobacco imparts similar properties. In popular [[language]], alcohol is classed among the stimulants; and opium and tobacco among the
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  • Sincerity
    The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] and most scholars state that sincerity from sincere is derived ...Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, though Brown attributes it to the Spanish [[language]], not [[Latin]].
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  • 2002-05-17-Faith, Trust, & Expectations
    ...ore [[esoteric]] concepts in your [[language]], and our understanding of [[English]] is not always as deep as it could be. Hence, we sometimes use words which ...ately clarify the picture, but that would not help you. We are left with a language which is sometimes inadequate. My own [[interpretation]] of the words faith
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  • Spectacle
    ...m of art in [[theater]] dating from the 17th century in [[English language|English]] [[drama]]. ...am Davenant]], who would become one of the major [[impressario]]s of the [[English Restoration]], also wrote pre-Revolutionary masques with Inigo Jones. The
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  • Figure of Speech
    Not all [[theories]] of meaning have a concept of "literal language". Under theories that do not, figure of speech is not an entirely coherent * [https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/writing/style Stylistic Devices on English Grammar Online] from Lingo4you GbR
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  • Queer
    ...ive senses in German are apparently much later [[developments]] than the [[English]] [[word]]. Since its [[emergence]] in the [[English]] language in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 16th century] (related t
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  • Roundtable
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] Brut in the early 13th century, saying that the quarrel between Arthur's v
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  • Enthusiasm
    ...velation; a vain confidence of divine favour or communication." In current English vernacular the word simply means intense enjoyment, interest, or approval. ...m" was seen in the time around 1700 as the cause of the previous century's English Civil War and its attendant atrocities, and thus it was an absolute social
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  • Literature
    ...ly "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (from the [[Latin]] ''littera'' meaning "an individual written ...n only [[text]] composed of letters, or other examples of symbolic written language ([[Egyptian hieroglyphs]], for example). An even more narrow interpretation
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  • Theorems
    ...al calculus], theorems are often expressed in a natural language such as [[English]]. The same is true of [[proofs]], which are often expressed as logically o
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  • Rogue
    In [[modern]] [[English]] [[language]], the term rogue is used pejoratively to [[describe]] a dishonest or unpri
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  • Worldview
    ...ative exchanges. Worldview remains a [[confused]] and confusing concept in English, used very differently by linguists and [[sociologists]]. It is for this re ...Edward Sapir] gives a very subtle account of this relationship in English. English linguists tend to persist in attaching [[discussion]] of worldviews to the
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  • Methodology
    *Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, W.A. Neilson, T.A. *Knott, P.W. Carhart (eds.)
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  • Preface/The Bhagavad Gita
    ...els,"—pancharatnani—of [[Devanagiri]] [[literature]]. In plain but noble [[language]] it unfolds a [[philosophical]] [[system]] which remains to this day the p ...n grateful recognition of the help derived from their labours, and because English literature would certainly be incomplete without possessing in popular form
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  • William Blake
    ...[[proportion]] to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far
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  • Flavor
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''flavour'', [[modification]] of Anglo-French ''flaur'', ''flour'', from V Although the terms "flavoring" or "flavorant" in common language denote the combined [[chemical]] sensations of taste and smell, the same te
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  • Charity
    The word "'''charity'''" entered the [[English]] [[language]] through the Old French word "charité" which was derived from the [[Latin ..._Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians Letter to the Corinthians]. However the English [[word]] more generally used for this [[concept]], both before and since (a
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  • Gesture
    ...ody language]] in addition to words when they speak. The use of gesture as language by some ethnic [[groups]] is more common than in others, and the amount of ...f gesture, [[integration]] of gesture and [[speech]], and the evolution of language. Other prominent researchers in this field include Susan Goldin-Meadow and
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  • Delusion
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin delusion-, delusio, from deludere A '''delusion''', in everyday [[language]], is a fixed [[belief]] that is either [[false]], fanciful, or derived fro
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  • Theory
    ...organisation ([[Cosmos]]) of the [[nature]]. The word has been in use in [[English]] since at least the late 16th century.[2] .... Theories may be expressed mathematically, [[symbol]]ically, or in common language, but are generally expected to follow principles of [[rational]] [[thought]
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  • The Enlightenment
    The term "Enlightenment" came into use in [[English]] during the mid-nineteenth century,[2] with particular reference to French ...[[concepts]] of [[divinity]] and [[eternity]] into the [[symbols]] of the language of the [[finite]] concepts of the [[mortal]] [[mind]]. But we know that the
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  • Spirit
    ...ting ''[[Psyche (psychology)|psykhē]]''. The word was loaned into [[Middle English]] via [[Old French]] ''espirit'' in the 13th century. In India [[Prana]] me ...nstincts. Similarly, both the [[Scandinavian languages]] and the [[Chinese language]] uses the term "breath" to refer to the spirit.
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  • 2000-11-26-Dedicating Your Personality to Father
    ===='''''[[Language]]''''', '''''[[Light and Life]]'''''==== ...ted]] into English before the lesson? And more about the [[UB|U-Book]] and language.
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  • Continuum
    ...neffable ''Mysterium Magnum'' of the "Great Continuum" that is rendered in English as "Mindstream": the nondual resolution of ''ātman'' and ''anātman''. ...nt in the iconographic representation of the ''Five Jinas''(''The Twilight Language: Explorations in Buddhist Meditation and Symbolism''. Curzon Press: London.
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  • Charles Kunz
    ...o me, but enough to get me interested in joining her in changing it into [[English]]. After we finished that project I started this web page for those persons
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  • 2019-11-04-Let Us Talk Legos
    “In language, an alphabet represents the mechanism of materialism, while the words expre “The English alphabet consists of 26 letters that can be strung into meaningful words or
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  • ETANA
    ...on discussions at the Muenster Rencontre in 2006, a collection of English language translations of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkad Akkadian texts], which
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  • Hero
    According to the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', the Indo-European root is '''''ser''' ''[[meaning]] "to protect". Accord
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  • Pattern
    ..."N-VP" (noun - verb phrase) pattern, but some knowledge of the [[English]] language is required to detect the pattern. Computer science, ethology, and psycholo ::[[Alfred North Whitehead]] (1861-1947), English philosopher and mathematician. ''Dialogues'', June 10, 1943.
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  • Method
    *Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, W.A. Neilson, T.A. Knott, P.W. Carhart (eds.),
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  • 2018-12-21-More On Urantia's Magisterial Mission
    ...(one language) also is promising since the best candidate for that, the [[English]] tongue, is not linked to just one [[nation]] as happened to global langua
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  • Animism
    ...]] life is produced by an immaterial [[soul]]". The [[actual]] [[English]] language form of animism however can only be attested to 1819. The term was taken an
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  • Re-public
    ...republic. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. https://dictionary.referen
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  • Gender
    ===The word ''gender'' in English=== The word ''gender'' comes from the [[Middle English]] ''gendre'', a loanword from Norman-conquest-era Old French. This, in turn
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  • India
    ...e, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu have the most first-language speakers). Hindi name Bharat.
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  • 2008-09-18-Religion and Spirituality, Progress and Churches
    ...u will acknowledge to all lists that with some degree of ease a Portuguese language list can be commenced with. ...to translate into Portuguese the messages that at this point go out on our English, French and Spanish lists, and these volunteers will contact you to make th
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  • 2002-03-03-Pleased by the Unexpected
    ...lar language. Alana will speak through any language available, should that language pattern be brought to her in the yearning of the mind of one who yearns to ...would observe us, be with us for a long time, and in the process learn our language. It is so much more that you can use the patterns that are already in the s
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  • Mental Disability
    ...r intellectually challenged is now preferred by most [[advocates]] in most English-speaking countries. Clinically, however, mental retardation is a subtype of *Delays in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_communication oral language development]
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  • Magnanimity
    ...ion to Aristotelian [[philosophy]], it also has its own [[tradition]] in [[English]] which now causes some [[confusion]]. Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary of the American Language defines Magnanimity as such:
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  • Equator
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Medieval Latin aequator, [[literally]], equalizer, from [[Latin]] ae In simpler [[language]], the Equator is an [[imaginary]] line on the [[Earth]]'s surface [[Equal|
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  • Evangelism
    ...odern word "Gospel" comes from the [[Old English]] word "Godspell." In Old English, "god" with a long "o" meant "[[good]]," and "spell" meant "word" (we carry # [https://www.truevictories.com/2007/10/downloads.html Bible as a Second Language], webpage, retrieved November 05, 2008
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  • Celt
    ...used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language. (Celtic Culture : A Historical Encyclopedia ISBN 978-1851094400) The term The earliest direct attestation of a Celtic language are the [[Lepontic]] inscriptions, beginning from the 6th century BC. Conti
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  • 2006-04-27-Uversa Broadcast, Gift of Vibrations
    ...ollowed by the following message sung in English. Some of the unrecognized language was interspersed in small phrases, as indicated by the asterisk *] ...owl’s tone was sustained during the following message, which was spoken in English.]
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  • Mindstream
    ...isdoms]] which unite the trikāya. These tantric correlations (or "twilight language") are evident in the iconographic representation of the five Jīnas[11] and ...] [[theory]], the "stream of consciousness" metaphor became more common in English usage, and was adapted into different [[contexts]], for instance, the strea
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  • Accounting
    ...the sense of narrāre ‘tell’; the variant spellings passed to aconter and [[English]] account, accompt, though here with no corresponding division of meaning. Today, accounting is called "the [[language]] of [[business]]" because it is the vehicle for reporting [[financial]] [[
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  • Philanthropy
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  • Intellectual
    ...sh language|English]] - the English term is litterateur (from the [[French language|French]] ''littérateur''). The Republic of Letters grew during the late 17 ===Nineteenth-century English usage===
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  • Romanticism
    ...and marked especially in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature English literature] by sensibility and the use of [[autobiographical]] material, an ...epistemology]] of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language and customary usage. Romanticism reached beyond the [[rational]] and [https
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  • Dialogue
    ...entities]]. The [[Etymology|etymological]] origins of the word (in [[Greek language|Greek]] διά (diá,through) + λόγος (logos,word,speech) concepts lik ...]’s ''Imaginary Conversations'' ([[1821]]-[[1828]]) formed the most famous English example of dialogue in the [[19th century]], although the dialogues of [[Ar
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  • Hebrew Bible
    ...Hebrew acronym unlikely to be appreciated by readers unfamiliar with that language. It also refers to the particular arrangement of the biblical books as foun ''Hebrew'' in the term ''Hebrew Bible'' refers to the original [[language]] of the books, but it may also be taken as referring to the Jews of the [[
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  • Revised Standard Version
    The '''Revised Standard Version''' (RSV) is an [[English language|English]] [[Bible translation|translation]] of the [[Bible]] published in the mid-2 ...the English-speaking church, but also to "preserve all that is best in the English Bible as it has been known and used through the centuries" and "to put the
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  • Slum
    ...ning either various taverns and eating houses, "loose talk" or [[gypsy]] [[language]], or a room with "low going-ons". In ''Life in London'' [https://en.wikipe
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  • Imprimatur
    ...r later editions of the same [[work]] or for [[translations]] into another language. For these, new imprimaturs are required. English laws of 1586, 1637 and 1662 required an official [[license]] for printing [
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  • 2002-05-30-Celestial Names
    Oliver: Now I hear you say that your [[name]] might be from a celestial [[language]] and/or have high spiritual [[meaning]]. If this is so, why would you not ...e German 'von something or another' or 'van who knows what' may be used. [[English]] commonly links 'son' to the name to denote [[parentage]] most commonly Jo
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  • Heliand
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] hǣlend and the modern German and Dutch Heiland), is, with the [[fragments ...three fragments: (I) The passage which appears as lines 235-851 of the Old English verse Genesis in the Caedmon Manuscript (MS Junius 11) (this fragment is kn
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  • Pedagogy
    ...gh both [[words]] have roughly the same [[origin]]al [[meaning]]. In the [[English]]-speaking world the term pedagogy refers to the [[science]] or theory of e ....dukejournals.org/ ''Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, Culture'']
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  • Cooperation
    ...English origin (compare the original French coopération). See the list of English words with diacritics for other examples
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  • Honor
    Dr [[Samuel Johnson]], in his A ''Dictionary of the English Language'' (1755), defined honour as having several [[senses]], the first of which w
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  • Spacetime
    ...he mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical [[language]] it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this ...viewpoint of spacetime being important in general relativity too. (For an English translation of Minkowski's article, see Lorentz et al. 1952.) The 1926 thir
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  • Merlin
    ...dard romanization "Merdinus" to avoid a resemblance to the vulgar [[French language|French]] word ''merde'', meaning "shit." ...eoples of [[Great Britain]] who will join together and drive the [[England|English]] – and later the [[Normans]] – back into the sea. Some of these works
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  • Tarot
    ...ns of the Tarot de Marseille, those suits are identified by their [[French language|French]] names of ''Bâtons'' (Rods, Staves, Sceptres, or Wands), ''Épées ...de Figures'' (The Minor Figure Cards) in French, and the "Royal Arcana" in English.
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  • Sutras
    ...''siv''-, meaning to sew. These words, including [[Latin]] ''suere'' and [[English]] to sew, all ultimately deriving from PIE *siH-/syuH- 'to sew'), as does t ...name of sūya (in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardhamagadhi Ardhamagadhi] language) can derive from [[Sanskrit]] sūkta, but hardly from sūtra.
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  • Narrative
    ...''" or "'''skilled'''". (Ultimately derived from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] root ''gnō-'', "to know".[https://www.bartleby.com/6 As with many words in the [[English]] [[language]], ''narration'' has more than one [[meaning]]. In its broadest context, n
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  • 1992-07-08-English As World Language, Admin. Center For TM
    ===Topic: ''English As World Language''=== ...when the book talks about a common tongue, and I [[imagine]] it would be [[English]]. With that in mind, should we be...
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  • Names
    ...kespeare]] as "The Bard", recognizing him as a [[paragon]] writer of the [[language]]. Finally, claims to preference or [[authority]] can be refuted: the Briti ...atin nomen, and Greek ὄνομα (onoma), possibly from the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE): *nomn-.[2]
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  • Hatred
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] enmite, from Anglo-French enemité, enemisté, from enemi enemy ...lity, [[religion]], sexual orientation, [[gender]] identity, disability, [[language]] ability, [[ideology]], [[social]] class, occupation, appearance (height,
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  • 1999-02-14-Mission Challenges
    ...]]. As the Chinese pronounce various words--the different pitches in their language means different things. Branson means ‘[[heroic]] [[attitude]].' That is TECTRA: Abraham, staying in the same vein, all these normal [[English]] [[names]]--I come along with a name of "Tectra." Is that some kind of int
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  • 2011-02-10-Father Wants to be Known to All
    *Translated into English by Michel Ardoullie. ...ording for transcription. The original recording is in French, her native language, and was translated a few hours later by her husband, Michel. I leave in al
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  • Metaphor
    ...eek language|Greek]]: ''μεταφορά'' - ''metaphora'', meaning "transfer") is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. In the simplest case, ...anding (itself a metaphor), but in none of these cases do most speakers of English actually visualize the physical action. Dead metaphors, by definition, nor
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  • History
    ...rACAAAAIAAJ The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?id=wrACAAA ...y]]. In German, French, and indeed, most languages of the world other than English, this distinction was never made, and the same word is used to mean both "h
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  • 1993-07-11-Loyalty & Trust
    JAREL: The spelling of my [[name]] in your [[English]] language can be either Jarel or JarEl. Is that O K ?
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  • Tradition
    ...ding over, passing on", and is used in a number of ways in the [[English]] language: * Klein, Ernest, Dr., A comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language: Dealing with the origin of words and their sense development thus illustra
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  • Literary theory
    ...that "literature" cannot be defined or that it can refer to any use of [[language]]. Specific theories are distinguished not only by their methods and conclu ...erogeneous tradition of [[Continental philosophy]] and the [[philosophy of language]], any classification of their approaches is only an approximation. There a
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  • 1999-02-25-Motivating Motivators
    .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States of America] or to the [[English]] speaking worlds, but it takes a strong [[commitment]] to this type of thi ...countries] where they don't speak English, so I had to teach the . ....’s English so they could read [[the Book]]!" and I think that after that he decided th
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  • Risk
    ...ion with Middle Eastern and North African Arab traders. In the [[English]] language the term risk appeared only in the 17th century, and "seems to be imported
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  • 2003-12-08-Allow Father More Leeway
    ...od's barn]. What interesting [[figures of speech]] are in your [[English]] language! You know [[communication]] is a two pronged effort. I send out to you what
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  • Discourse
    ...it points to, but can never completely capture, the fundamental role that language plays in constituting the historical, social, cultural, and personal networ From the sixteenth century, the word ‘discourse’ referred in English to spatial movement, to the act or faculty of conversation, to the movement
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  • Other
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ōther; akin to Old High German andar other, [[Sanskrit]] antara ...with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Symbolic symbolic order] and [[language]]. Levinas connected it with the scriptural and [[traditional]] [[God]], in
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  • Languages and Literature
    ...fically on the use of language by humans see the main article on [[natural language]]. == Properties of language ==
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  • Destiny
    ...qismet" meaning either "the will\save Allah" or "portion, lot or fate". In English, the word is synonymous with "Fate" or "Destiny".
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  • Motherhood
    ...n in their efforts to understand speech (in [[context]] of the reference [[English]]) than fathers.[13] ...in nearly every language on earth, countering the natural localization of language.
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  • Amen
    ...In [[Islam]], it is the standard ending to [[Dua]] (supplication). Common English translations of the word ''amen'' include: "Verily", "Truly", "So be it", a ...ary etymology, ''amen'' passed from Greek into Late Latin, and thence into English.[https://www.bartleby.com/61/75/A0247500.html]
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  • Analogy
    ...he analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a [[language|linguistic]] expression corresponding to such a process. In a narrower sens ...er of a message including them. Analogy is important not only in ordinary language]] and common sense, where proverbs and [[idiom]]s give many examples of its
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  • Genocide
    ...e the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups # Oxford English Dictionary, second edition draft entry 2004. "genocide".
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  • 1999-12-05-Teaching Mission vs. Urantia Book Comparison
    ...it is bound within the pages and restrictions of the book, and the English language, or other languages into which it has been [[translated]]. This [[Teaching
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  • Biblical Apocrypha
    The English-language [[King James Version]] of 1611 followed the lead of the Luther Bible in usi All English translations of the Bible printed in the sixteenth century included a secti
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  • Genius
    ...niuses for those born to be kings of men and "idiots and imbeciles", two [[English]] pejoratives, for those at the other extreme of the "normal scheme."[8] Da # "genius". Oxford English Dictionary (2 ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 1989.
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  • Yahweh
    ...held that the [[original]] name was IaHUe(H), i.e. Jahve(h, or with the [[English]] values of the letters, Yahwe(h, and one or other of these forms is now ge ...of_genesis#Chapter_.49 Genesis. 49:25]). Israelite religion, like Israel's language and culture, is a child of the Canaanite or West Semitic world.
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  • Apocrypha
    ...t least 100–200 years into the A.D., at which time considerations of Greek language and beginnings of Christian acceptance of the Septuagint weighed against so .... That is not common yet in 2013, so they are not as widely available in [[English]].
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  • 119:8 Michael's Postbestowal Status
    ...zedek]]. We indited these [[narratives]] and put them in the [[English]] [[language]], by a [[technique]] authorized by our superiors, in the year [https://en.
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  • Form
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] forme, from Anglo-French furme, forme, from [[Latin]] forma form, [[beauty ...res]] or styles, which may be determined by factors such as [[harmonic]] [[language]], typical [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm rhythms], [[types]] of mus
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  • Oxford English Dictionary
    ...pt recording a word's most known uses and variants in ''all'' varieties of English, worldwide, past, and present; per the 1933 Preface: ...e-history, pronunciation, and etymology. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete,
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  • Hermeneutics
    ...resuppositions, preunderstandings, the [[meaning]] and [[philosophy]] of [[language]], and [[semiotics]].[1] ...works in the Western [[tradition]] to deal with the relationship between [[language]] and [[logic]] in a comprehensive, explicit, and [[formal]] way. It is oft
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