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  • 51Christian Doctrine —     Christian Doctrine     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Christian Doctrine     Taken in the sense of the act of teaching and the knowledge imparted by teaching , this term is synonymous with CATECHESIS and CATECHISM. Didaskalia, didache, in the… …

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  • 52The Benedictine Order —     The Benedictine Order     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Benedictine Order     The Benedictine Order comprises monks living under the Rule of St. Benedict, and commonly known as black monks . The order will be considered in this article under… …

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  • 53delinquent — de·lin·quent 1 /di liŋ kwənt/ n: a delinquent person; esp: juvenile delinquent delinquent 2 adj [Latin delinquent delinquens, present participle of delinquere to commit (an offense), err] 1 a: offending by neglect or violation of duty or law …

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  • 54backward — I adjective arrested, behindhand, belated, dallying, defected, delayed, delaying, dilatory, impeded, late, mentally deficient, overdue, procrastinating, regressive, retarded, retroactive, retrograde, reversed, slow, subnormal, tardy, untimely II… …

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  • 55delayed — I (arrested) adjective adjourned, belated, contained, deferred, dilatory, late, lingering, overdue, postponed, protracted, remanded, restrained, set back, stopped, suspended, tabled, tardy, unpunctual, untimely II (lagging) adjective arrested,… …

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  • 56anachronistic — Synonyms and related words: ahead of time, antedated, beforehand, behind time, behindhand, dated, early, foredated, late, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due, postdated, prochronistic …

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  • 57arrested — Synonyms and related words: babbling, back, backward, behind, behindhand, belated, blithering, blocked, bridled, burbling, callow, caught, charmed, checked, coarse, constrained, controlled, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous,… …

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  • 58back — Synonyms and related words: a priori, a rebours, a reculons, abandon, abet, accented, acknowledgments, advance, advocate, affirm, afford support, aft, after, aftermost, afterpart, afterpiece, again, against the grain, ago, aid, alpenstock,… …

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  • 59backward — Synonyms and related words: Micawberish, Olympian, a priori, a rebours, a reculons, about, afraid, aft, after, after time, aftermost, again, against the grain, ago, aloof, anticlockwise, apathetic, arear, around, arrested, arsy varsy, ascending,… …

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  • 60beforehand — Synonyms and related words: ahead, ahead of time, anachronistic, ante, antedated, before, beforetime, behind time, behindhand, betimes, dated, earlier, early, fore, foredated, foresightedly, forward, in advance, in anticipation, late,… …

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