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  • 21Amphibological — Am*phib o*log ic*al ([a^]m*f[i^]b [ o]*l[o^]j [i^]*kal), a. Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. Amphibological expressions. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] {Am*phib o*log ic*al*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 22Amphibologically — Amphibological Am*phib o*log ic*al ([a^]m*f[i^]b [ o]*l[o^]j [i^]*kal), a. Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. Amphibological expressions. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] {Am*phib o*log ic*al*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 23Selah — Se lah, n. [Heb. sel[=a]h.] (Script.) A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song. [1913 Webster] Beyond the fact that Selah is a musical… …

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  • 24Nicephorus Gregoras — Nikephoros Gregoras, latinized as Nicephorus Gregoras (Greek: Νικηφόρος Γρηγορᾶς; c. 1295 1360), Byzantine astronomer, historian, man of learning and religious controversialist, was born at Heraclea Pontica. At an early age he settled at… …

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  • 25Lycophron — was a Greek poet and grammarian (although the Oxford Classical Dictionary regards these as two different men). He was born at Chalcis in Euboea, and flourished at Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus (285 247 BC). According to Suda, the …

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  • 26Explained variation — In statistics, explained variation or explained randomness measures the proportion to which a mathematical model accounts for the variation (= apparent randomness) of a given data set. Often, variation is quantified as variance; then, the more… …

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  • 27sarcophagus — /sahr kof euh geuhs/, n., pl. sarcophagi / juy /, sarcophaguses. 1. a stone coffin, esp. one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument. 2. Gk. Antiq. a kind of stone thought to consume the flesh of corpses, used for… …

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  • 28amphibological — adjective of doubtful meaning, ambiguous, quibbling. Consequently it must be recognised that the rather amphibological expression soulless psychology implies no negation of the existence of the soul …

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  • 29flexiloquent — speaking ambiguously or using words of doubtful meaning Styles of Speech …

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  • 30wainscot — /ˈweɪnskət / (say waynskuht), / koʊt/ (say koht) noun 1. oak or other wood, usually in panels, serving to line the walls of a room, etc. 2. a dado, or a facing of any material on interior walls, etc. 3. the lower portion of a wall surfaced in a… …