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  • 121Testifying — Testify Tes ti*fy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Testified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Testifying}.] [OF. testifier, L. testificari; testis a witness + ficare (in comp.) to make. See { fy}, and cf. {Attest}, {Contest}, {Detest}, {Protest}, {Testament}.] 1. To make …

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  • 122execrate — transitive verb ( crated; crating) Etymology: Latin exsecratus, past participle of exsecrari to put under a curse, from ex + sacr , sacer sacred Date: 1531 1. to declare to be evil or detestable ; denounce 2. to detest utterly • execrative… …

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  • 123loathe — transitive verb (loathed; loathing) Etymology: Middle English lothen, from Old English lāthian to dislike, be hateful, from lāth Date: 12th century to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance ; detest Synonyms: see hate • loather… …

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  • 124detester — noun see detest …

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  • 125A Modest Proposal — for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick,[1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and… …

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  • 126Arminianism — is a school of soteriological thought within Protestant Christianity based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius (1560 1609) [Magnusson, Magnus (ed). Chambers Biographical Dictionary (Chambers: Cambridge… …

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  • 127Azawakh — Infobox Dogbreed image caption = Typical Azawakh male name = Azawakh altname = Idi Hanshee Oska Wulo (formerly)Tuareg Sloughi country = Officially Mali but also Burkina Faso, Niger, southern Algeria and throughout the western Sahel. fcigroup = 10 …

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  • 128Al Capp — Infobox Person name = Al Capp image size = 200px caption = Al Capp, Li l Abner, and Daisy Mae on a 1950 cover of Time Magazine birth date = birth date|1909|9|28|mf=y birth place = New Haven, Connecticut death date = death date and… …

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