The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God;inspiration.Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or byprophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker.
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Illumination
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Condottiere
A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenthcenturies, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to anyparty in any contest.
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Tetrachord
A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or firstand last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; thetwo middle sounds were changeable.
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Winger
One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, beingsmaller than such as are stowed more amidships. Totten.
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Cyclopean
Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge;gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopeanarchitecture.
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Ophiophagus
A genus of venomous East Indian snakes, which feed on othersnakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most deadlyof poisonous snakes.
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Reprise
Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, asrent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Writtenalso reprizes.] Burrill.
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Outskirt
A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usuallyin the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. Wordsworth.The outskirts of his march of mystery. Keble.
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Cation
An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decompositionis evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion. Faraday.
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Tennantite
A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite.It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
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Vervet
A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, orLelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked withblack. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.
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Drysalter
A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., andin the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving variouskinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of salinesubstances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande
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Didymium
A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metalcerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element,but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementarysubstances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, andPraseodymium.
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Magistral
Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposedto officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. Dunglison.Magistral line (Fort.), the guiding line, or outline, or outline, bywhich the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crestline of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp inpermanent fortifications.
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Loach
Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of thegenera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or morebarbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. Thecommon European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.
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Isocyanic
Designating an acid isomeric with cyanic acid. Isocyanic acid,an acid metameric with cyanic acid, and resembling it in its salts.It is obtained as a colorless, mobile, unstable liquid by the heatingcyanuric acid. Called technically carbimide.
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Athwart
Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwartour course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whetherin contact or at a small distance.-- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in thatdirection; -- opposed to fore and aft.
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Hieratic
Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modifiedform of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerlysupposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposedto be that of the people.It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds ofwriting used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason calledhieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while thethird, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No suchdistinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments;bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension. W. H. Ward(Johnson's Cyc.).
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Breastplate
A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the frontof the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, aspan square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engravedthe names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.
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Berretta
A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman CatholicChurch. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clericsis black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also speltberetta, biretta, etc.]