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61reference — ref·er·ence / re frəns, fə rəns/ n 1: an act of referring; specif: mention or citation of one document (as a statute) in another a municipality may adopt by reference all or a part of this title Alaska Statutes see also incorporate 2 …
62Comte and positivism — Robert Brown COMTE’S AIMS The chief aim of all of Auguste Comte’s publications, and the constant mission of his entire working life, was the improvement of human character through the perfecting of human society. He was convinced that the… …
63Roman holiday — occasion on which entertainment or profit is derived from injury or death, 1860, originally in reference to holidays for gladiatorial combat; the expression seems to be entirely traceable to an oft quoted passage on a dying barbarian gladiator… …
64citation — n. 1. Summons, official call or notice. 2. Quotation, extract, excerpt, quoted passage. 3. Enumeration, mention, quoting, quotation, bringing forward …
65Tiglathpileser I — (reigned ca. 1115 1077 b.c.) One of the strongest and most ambitious kings of Assyria s second period of imperial expansion, spanning the last few centuries of the second millennium b.c. Tiglathpileser (or Tukuti apil Eshara) pushed the empire …
66sic — sic1 [sik] adj. Scot. var. of Scot. SUCH sic2 [sik] vt. sicced or sicked, siccing or sicking [var. of SEEK] 1. to set upon; pursue and attack: said esp. of or to a dog 2. to urge or in …
67acknowledgment — noun 1. the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own • Syn:… …
68ASMAKHTA — (Aram. אַסְמַכְתָּא; support, reliance ), legal term with two connotations in the Talmud. (1) In rabbinical exegesis it denotes the use of a biblical text merely as a support for a halakhah without suggesting that the halakhah is thus actually… …
69LION — Called in the Talmud the king of the beasts (Ḥag. 13b), the lion has many Hebrew names: (אַרְיֵה (aryeh) or אֲרִי (ari), and לָבִיא (lavi) fem. לְבִיאָה (levi ah), both of which are used for the lion in general, כְּפִיר (kefir), usually a young… …
70List of cultural references in The Cantos — This is a list of people, places, events, etc. that feature in Ezra Pound s The Cantos , a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. It is a book length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the… …
