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  • 91Isabella I — • Queen of Castile (1451 1504) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Isabella I     Isabella I     † …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 92Theodoret — • Bishop of Cyrus and theologian, born at Antioch in Syria about 393; died about 457 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Theodoret     Theodoret      …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 93Dioscurus —     Dioscurus     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Dioscurus     (Also written Dioscorus; Dioscurus from the analogy of Dioscuri).     Bishop of Alexandria; date of birth unknown; d. at Gangra, in Asia Minor, 11 Sept., 454. He had been archdeacon under… …

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  • 94Mohammed and Mohammedanism —     Mohammed and Mohammedanism     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mohammed and Mohammedanism     I. THE FOUNDER     Mohammed, the Praised One , the prophet of Islam ( see Islam (Concept) ) and the founder of Mohammedanism, was born at Mecca (20… …

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  • 95Islam —     Mohammed and Mohammedanism     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mohammed and Mohammedanism     I. THE FOUNDER     Mohammed, the Praised One , the prophet of Islam ( see Islam (Concept) ) and the founder of Mohammedanism, was born at Mecca (20… …

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  • 96Mohammed and Mohammedanism (Islam) —     Mohammed and Mohammedanism     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mohammed and Mohammedanism     I. THE FOUNDER     Mohammed, the Praised One , the prophet of Islam ( see Islam (Concept) ) and the founder of Mohammedanism, was born at Mecc …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 97waste — n 1: destruction of or damage to property that is caused by the act or omission of one (as a lessee, mortgagor, or life tenant) having a lesser estate and is usu. to the injury of another (as an heir, mortgagee, or remainderman) with an interest… …

    Law dictionary

  • 98rape — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. seize, plunder; seduce, debauch, ravish. See impurity, stealing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. violation, sexual assault, seduction, deflowering, criminal assault, abduction, statutory offense, statutory …

    English dictionary for students

  • 99hack — English has two distinct words hack. By far the older, ‘cut savagely or randomly’ [OE], goes back via Old English haccian to a prehistoric West Germanic *khak , also reproduced in German hacken and Dutch hakken. It perhaps originated in imitation …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 100barbarism — n 1. crudity, coarseness, vulgarity; unenlightenment, uncivilizedness. See barbarity (def.3). 2. atrocity, outrage, enormity. See barbarity (def.2). 3. misuse, misusage, misapplication, error, infelicity, Obs. ill usage; catachresis, solecism,… …

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