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  • 101shorten — index abstract (summarize), commute, condense, constrict (compress), curtail, decrease, digest ( …

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  • 102Averroes — Alfred Ivry Abū’l Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (1126–98) needs to be known only as Averroes to be familiar to students of philosophy in the West. Greatly respected as a commentator on Aristotle’s writings, Averroes was also strongly… …

    History of philosophy

  • 103Late medieval philosophy, 1350–1500 — Zénon Kaluza INTRODUCTION No fact in philosophical or other history underlies the commonlymade division of fourteenth century philosophy around the year 1350, except perhaps the Black Death of 1348–9, which overcame the Oxford masters and… …

    History of philosophy

  • 104finding — noun 1 (usually findings) result of research into sth ADJECTIVE ▪ important, key, significant ▪ I ll now summarize the key findings from these studies. ▪ main ▪ …

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  • 105condense — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. abridge, digest, abbreviate, shorten, cut, epitomize; compress, compact, thicken, concentrate, distill. See density, shortness, contraction, liquefaction. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To compress] Syn.… …

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  • 106outline — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. profile, tracing, tracery; bounds, boundary; edge, circumference, perimeter; [rough] sketch, plan, blueprint, schematic, scheme, drawing, draft; synopsis, summary, résumé; diagram, chart, map. v. t.… …

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  • 107paraphrase — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. rendering, restatement, switch (inf.). v. restate, alter, reword. See interpretation, imitation. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. digest, restatement, explanation, translation; see interpretation 1 , summary …

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  • 108report — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. state, review; rehearse, give tidings, announce, give notice of, proclaim. See information, publication. n. record, account, statement; news; rumor; hearsay; fame, repute; bang, blast, detonation.… …

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  • 109perorate — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To harangue] Syn. speak, lecture, expatiate; see address 2 . 2. [To summarize] Syn. epitomize, conclude, sum up; see decrease 2 , summarize . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To speak in a loud, pompous, or prolonged manner:… …

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  • 110summarise — British English spelling of SUMMARIZE (Cf. summarize); for suffix, see IZE (Cf. ize). Related: Summarised; summarising …

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