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  • 61misusage — n 1. misapplication, misemployment, misappropriation, misuse; impropriety, malapropism, solecism, catachresis, corruption, barbarism, bad grammar. 2. abuse, ill use, ill usage, mishandling, mistreatment, maltreatment, ill treatment; manhandling,… …

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  • 62rape — n 1.{all usu. in reference to sexual relations) assault, attack, violation, molestation, ravishment; defilement, seduction; abuse, maltreatment, ill usage; deflowering devirgination, Obs. constupration, Obs. stupration. 2.(usu. of persons)… …

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  • 63Abusive — A*bu sive, a. [Cf. F. abusif, fr. L. abusivus.] 1. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. [1913 Webster] I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller. [1913 Webster] 2. Given to …

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  • 64maltreatment — mal*treat ment, n.; [Cf. F. maltraitement.] Cruel or inhumane treatment; ill usage; abuse. Syn: ill treatment. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 65History of Ottoman Egypt — Egypt was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517. Egypt was always a difficult province for the Ottoman Sultans to control. It remained dominated by the semi autonomous Mameluks until it was conquered by the French in 1798. After the French were …

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  • 66The Fortunes of Nigel —   …

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  • 67Slavery at common law — in former colonies of the British Empire, developed slowly over centuries, characterised by inconsistent decisions and varying rationales for the treatment of slavery, the slave trade, and the rights of slaves and slave owners. Until 1807 there… …

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  • 68Eusebius of Nicomedia — • Bishop, place and date of birth unknown; d. 341. He was a pupil at Antioch of Lucian the Martyr, in whose famous school he learned his Arian doctrines Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Eusebius of Nicomedia     Euse …

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  • 69Archdiocese of Prague —     Prague     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Prague     (PRAGENSIS). An archdiocese in Bohemia.     From about the middle of the sixth century Slavonic tribes advancing into Bohemia drove the Marcomanni to the borders of the country. The Slavs soon… …

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  • 70St. Zita —     St. Zita     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Zita     Model and heavenly patroness of domestic servants, born early in the thirteenth century of a poor family at Montsegradi, a little village near Lucca, in Tuscany; died at Lucca, 27 April,… …

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