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  • 31Arthur Benoni Evans — (1781–1854) was a British writer.Evans was born at Compton Beauchamp in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), on 25 March 1781. His father, the Rev. Lewis Evans, vicar of Froxfield, Wiltshire, was a well known astronomer, and held… …

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  • 32church — /cherrch/, n. 1. a building for public Christian worship. 2. public worship of God or a religious service in such a building: to attend church regularly. 3. (sometimes cap.) the whole body of Christian believers; Christendom. 4. (sometimes cap.)… …

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  • 33pulpit — pulpital, adj. pulpitless, adj. /pool pit, pul /, n. 1. a platform or raised structure in a church, from which the sermon is delivered or the service is conducted. 2. the pulpit, a. the clerical profession; the ministry. b. members of the clergy… …

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  • 34Ferguson, Adam — ▪ Scottish philosopher born June 20, 1723, Logierait, Perthshire, Scot. died Feb. 22, 1816, St. Andrews, Fife  historian and philosopher of the Scottish “common sense” school of philosophy who is remembered as a forerunner of modern sociology for …

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  • 35desk — 1. noun a) A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath. b) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical… …

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  • 36FISON, Rev. Lorimer (1832-1907) — anthropologist was born at Barningham, Suffolk, on 9 November 1832. His father was a prosperous landowner, his mother a daughter of the Rev. John Reynolds, a woman of ability and personality. Fison was sent to a good school at Sheffield,… …

    Dictionary of Australian Biography

  • 37Anthony Russell — Anthony John Russell (* 25. Januar 1943) ist ein anglikanischer Geistlicher und war von 2000 bis 2010 Bischof von Ely in der Church of England. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben und Karriere 2 Mitgliedschaft im House of Lords …

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  • 38Popov , Aleksandr Stepanovich — (1859–1906) Russian physicist and electrical engineer Popov, the son of a priest from Bogoslavsky in Russia, was educated in a seminary to prepare him for a clerical profession. His interest however turned to physics and mathematics, which he… …

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  • 39RENAN, ERNEST —    Orientalist and Biblical scholar, born in Brittany, son of a sailor, who, dying, left him to the care of his mother and sister, to both of whom he was warmly attached; destined for the Church, he entered the seminary of St. Sulpice, where his… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 40cloth — (n.) O.E. clað a cloth, woven or felted material to wrap around one, hence, garment, from P.Gmc. *kalithaz (Cf. O.Fris. klath, M.Du. cleet, Du. kleed, M.H.G. kleit, Ger. Kleid garment ), of obscure origin. The cloth the clerical profession is… …

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