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  • 41Niche — • A recess for the reception of a statue, so designed as to give it emphasis, frame it effectively, and afford some measure of protection. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Niche     Niche …

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  • 42Patrick Matthew — (20 October 1790 ndash;8 June 1874) was a Scottish landowner and fruit farmer. He published the principle of natural selection as a mechanism of evolution over a quarter century earlier than Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. However,… …

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  • 43Penpont —    PENPONT, a parish and village, and the seat of a presbytery, in the county of Dumfries, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Thornhill; containing 1266 inhabitants, of whom 492 are in the village. This parish is supposed to have derived its name from a… …

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  • 44prime — 1. adj. & n. adj. 1 chief, most important (the prime agent; the prime motive). 2 (esp. of cattle and provisions) first rate, excellent. 3 primary, fundamental. 4 Math. a (of a number) divisible only by itself and unity (e.g. 2, 3, 5, 7, 11). b… …

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  • 45Hither — Hith er, adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. h[=e][eth]ra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidr[=e]; cf. L. citra on this side, or E. here, he. [root]183. Cf. {He}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To this place; used with verbs signifying motion, and implying… …

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  • 46Hither and thither — Hither Hith er, adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. h[=e][eth]ra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidr[=e]; cf. L. citra on this side, or E. here, he. [root]183. Cf. {He}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To this place; used with verbs signifying motion, and… …

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  • 47Infallibility — In*fal li*bil i*ty, n. [Cf. F. infaillibilit[ e].] The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. [1913 Webster] Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. [1913 Webster] {Papal… …

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  • 48Papal infallibility — Infallibility In*fal li*bil i*ty, n. [Cf. F. infaillibilit[ e].] The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. [1913 Webster] Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. [1913… …

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  • 49Actual infinity — is the idea that numbers, or some other type of mathematical object, can form an actual, completed totality; namely, a set. Hence, in the philosophy of mathematics, the abstraction of actual infinity involves the acceptance of infinite entities,… …

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  • 50Epode — Epode, in verse, is the third part of an ode, which followed the strophe and the antistrophe, and completed the movement.At a certain point in time the choirs, which had previously chanted to right of the altar or stage, and then to left of it,… …

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