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111attribute — attributable, adj. attributer, attributor, n. v. /euh trib yooht/; n. /a treuh byooht /, v., attributed, attributing, n. v.t. 1. to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually fol. by to): She… …
112derogatory — derogatorily, adv. derogatoriness, n. /di rog euh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark. [1495 1505; < LL derogatorius cursing, equiv. to deroga(re)… …
113gaze — gazeless, adj. gazer, n. gazingly, adv. /gayz/, v., gazed, gazing, n. v.i. 1. to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder. n. 2. a steady or intent look. 3. at gaze, Heraldry. (of a deer or deerlike… …
114Stalinism — /stah leuh niz euhm/, n. the principles of communism associated with Joseph Stalin, characterized esp. by the extreme suppression of dissident political or ideological views, the concentration of power in one person, and an aggressive… …
115Helmont, Jan Baptista van — born Jan. 12, 1580, Brussels, Belg. died Dec. 30, 1644, Vilvoorde, Spanish Netherlands Belgian chemist, physiologist, and physician. Though he tended to mysticism, he was a careful observer and exact experimenter. The first to recognize gases… …
116Cosell, Howard — ▪ 1996 (HOWARD WILLIAM COHEN), U.S. sportscaster (b. March 25, 1918, Winston Salem, N.C. d. April 23, 1995, New York, N.Y.), reached the pinnacle of his career as the audacious commentator on television s Monday Night Football (1970 83) and …
117akriyāvāda — ▪ Buddhist philosophy Sanskrit“doctrine denying the effect of deeds”Pāli …
118biblical literature — Introduction four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha. The Old… …
119Carthage — • Founded by Phoenician colonists, and long the great opponent of Rome in the duel for supremacy, was destroyed by a Roman army, 146 B.C. A little more than a century later (44 B.C.), a new city composed of Roman colonists was founded on the site …
120Roman Catholic — • A qualification of the name Catholic commonly used in English speaking countries by those unwilling to recognize the claim of being the One True Church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Roman Catholic Roman Catholic …
