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91Tacksman — A tacksman (Scottish Gaelic: Fear Taic, meaning supporting man ) was a land holder of intermediate legal and social status in Scottish Highland society.Tenant and landlordAlthough a tacksman generally paid a yearly rent for the land let to him… …
92crassitude — /kras i toohd , tyoohd /, n. 1. gross ignorance or stupidity. 2. thickness; grossness. [1400 50; late ME ( < MF) < L crassitudo thickness. See CRASS, I , TUDE] * * * …
93gross — grossly, adv. grossness, n. /grohs/, adj., grosser, grossest, n., pl. gross for 11, grosses for 12, 13; v. adj. 1. without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like… …
94vulgarity — /vul gar i tee/, n., pl. vulgarities. 1. the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark. 2. something vulgar, as an act or expression. [1570 80; < LL vulgaritas commonness, the public. See VULGAR, ITY] Syn. 1. tastelessness,… …
95Zappa, Frank — orig. Francis Vincent Zappa born Dec. 21, 1940, Baltimore, Md., U.S. died Dec. 4, 1993, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. rock musician and composer. Zappa grew up in California and taught himself drums and guitar. He wrote film scores in the early 1960s …
96Schuch, Franz — ▪ German actor born c. 1716, Vienna [Austria] died 1763, Hamburg [Germany] German comic actor and theatre manager who popularized a vernacular version of the commedia dell arte form and merged the Italian stock character Harlequin with the… …
97Demiurge — • The word means literally a public worker, demioergós, demiourgós, and was originally used to designate any craftsman plying his craft or trade for the use of the public. Soon, however, technítes and other words began to be used to designate the …
98Giulio Romano — • A famous architect and painter, the best known of Raphael s pupils, and the unique representative of the so called Roman School ; b. at Rome in 1492; d. at Mantua in 1546 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Giulio Romano …
99Gnosticism — • History of Gnosticism from its pre Christian roots through its developed doctrines concerning cosmogony, the Sophia myth, soteriology, and eschatology. Includes information on rites, schools, and literature Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …
100Metempsychosis — • The doctrine of the transmigration of souls, teaches that the same soul inhabits in succession the bodies of different beings, both men and animals Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Metempsychosis Metempsychosis …
