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• Epitaph
  *1: an inscription on or at a [[tomb]] or a grave in [[memory]] of the one buried there ...eader would have to be standing on the ground above the coffin to read the inscription. Some record achievements (e.g., past politicians note the years of their t
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• Title
  ...ing the name of the piece, etc. Obs. In earliest use repr. L. titulus, the inscription on the Cross. *3. a. The name of a [[book]], a poem, or other (written) composition; an inscription at the beginning of a book, describing or indicating its subject, [[content
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• Lullaby
  ...st Lilith, Jewish people would hang four amulets on nursery walls with the inscription "Lilith – abi!" ["Lilith – begone"] which is a possible origin of the E
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• 187:2 The Crucifixion
  ...st any give serious regard to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraphy inscription].
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• Titration
  The word "titration" comes from the [[Latin]] word titulus, [[meaning]] inscription or title. The French word ''titre'', also from this origin, means rank.
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• Moderation
  ...nt_Greece ancient Greece], the [[temple]] of Apollo at [[Delphi]] bore the inscription Meden Agan - 'Nothing in excess'. Doing something "in moderation" means not
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• Cornerstone
  ...replica, set in a prominent location on the outside of a building, with an inscription on the stone indicating the construction dates of the building and the name
  3 KB (495 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Crossroads
  ...the road" and sees a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir menhir] with an inscription that reads:
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• Caliper
  ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xin_dynasty Xin dynasty]. The caliper had an inscription stating that it was "made on a gui-you day at new moon of the first month o
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• Book of Life
  ..._days_of_penitence Ten Days of Penitence] , three of them are prayers for "Inscription in the Book of Life" and it is the basis of the moving [[prayer]] U-Netanne
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• Allah
  One exception may be in the pre-Islamic Zabad inscription,[31] where it ends with an ambiguous sign that may be a lone-standing h wit # "Zebed Inscription: A Pre-Islamic Trilingual Inscription In Greek, Syriac & Arabic From 512 CE". Islamic Awareness. March 17, 2005.
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• Difference
  ...of man because it deconstructs any anthropocentrism, in the sense that the inscription in question falls on both sides of the divide human/non-human. ...enetics nor that of the [[individual]], but rather a memory consisting in "inscription in the nonliving," that is, ''technical'' memory).
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• Maitreya
  ...d in the Qingzhou cache dedicated to Maitreya in 529 CE as recorded in the inscription (currently in the Qingzhou Museum, Shandong). The [[cult]] of Maitreya appa
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• Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
  ...om the Greek: ψευδής, pseudes, "false" and ἐπιγραφή, epigraphē, "name" or "inscription" or "ascription"; thus when taken together it means "false superscription o
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• Supposition
  ...term supposits materially, when it is used to stand in for an utterance or inscription, rather than for what is [[signifies]]. When I say Cup is a monosyllabic [[
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• Philistine
  ...generally identified with the Philistines, appear in the [[Medinet Habu]] inscription of [[Ramesses III]] [https://www.courses.psu.edu/cams/cams400w_aek11/mhabte ...served [[Cult (religion)|cultic functions]]. Further evidence concerns an inscription in Ekron to PYGN or PYTN, which some have suggested refers to "[[Potnia the
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• 188:3 During the Sabbath Day
  ...ated shortly after [[Michael]] departed from this world, and it bears this inscription: " In commemoration of the [[mortal]] transit of [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]]
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• Celt
  ...es. Insular Celtic is attested from about the fourth century AD in [[ogham inscription]]s. Literary tradition begins with [[Old Irish]] from about the eighth cent
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• El
  A proto-Sinaitic mine inscription from Mount Sinai reads ʼlḏ‘lm understood to be vocalized as ʼil ḏū ...Ēl qōne ’arṣ meaning "ʼĒl creator of Earth" appears, even including a late inscription at Leptis Magna in Tripolitania dating to 2nd century (KAI. 129). In Hittit
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• Philology
  ...linson, 1st Baronet|Henry Rawlinson]] and others deciphered the [[Behistun Inscription]], which records the same text in [[Old Persian language|Old Persian]], [[E
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