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  • 111tarpon — /tahr peuhn/, n., pl. tarpons, (esp. collectively) tarpon. a large, powerful game fish, Megalops atlantica, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, having a compressed body and large, silvery scales. [1675 85; earlier tarpum, trapham …

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  • 112tope — tope1 /tohp/, v., toped, toping. v.i. 1. to drink alcoholic liquor habitually and to excess. v.t. 2. to drink (liquor) habitually and to excess. [1645 55; var. of obs. top to drink, in phrase top off (on the model of tip off to drink (a full… …

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  • 113use — v. /yoohz/ or, for pt. form of 9, /yoohst/; n. /yoohs/, v., used, using, n. v.t. 1. to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife. 2. to avail oneself of; apply to one s own purposes: to use the facilities. 3. to… …

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  • 114W.T. Sherman: Orders to His Army — ▪ Primary Source       Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, in the Field, Kingston, Georgia, November 8, 1864.       The general commanding deems it proper at this time to inform the officers and men of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth,… …

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  • 115Habit — • Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will… …

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  • 116Mensa, Mensal Revenue — • The Latin word mensa has for its primitive signification a table for meals ; it designates by extension the expenses, or better, the necessary resources of sustenance, and generally, all the resources for personal support. He who lives at the… …

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  • 117Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Armenia — • Created by Gregory XVI on 17 Dec., 1832. Mgr. Trioche, Archbishop of Babylon or Bagdad, became its first titular; he resided habitually in Bagdad Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Armenia      …

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  • 118Pessimism — • Term applied in popular language to persons who habitually take a melancholy view of life; or in philosophy, to a system that attempts to account for the presence of evil in the world. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Pessimism      …

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  • 119Rings — • Article discussing religious uses and values concerning the wearing of rings Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Rings     Rings     † …

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  • 120Clerical Costume —     Clerical Costume     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Clerical Costume     To discuss the question of ecclesiastical costume in any detail would be impossible in an article like the present. No topic has formed the subject of so many synodal… …

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