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  • 101Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity — The Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Arabic: رسائل أخوان الصفا و خلان الوفا‎ Rasa il ikhwan as safa wa khillan al wafa; also variously known as the Epistles of the Brethren of Sincerity , Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and Epistles of… …

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  • 102Intellectual context (The) of later medieval philosophy: universities, Aristotle, arts, theology — The intellectual context of later medieval philosophy: universities, Aristotle, arts, theology Stephen Brown ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITIES A number of medieval towns in the twelfth century owed a large portion of their renown to their schools.… …

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  • 103intellect — UK [ˈɪntəlekt] / US [ˈɪnt(ə)lˌekt] noun Word forms intellect : singular intellect plural intellects 1) [uncountable] the ability to think in an intelligent way and to understand difficult or complicated ideas and subjects These activities are… …

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  • 104intellect — n. 1 a the faculty of reasoning, knowing, and thinking, as distinct from feeling. b the understanding or mental powers (of a particular person etc.) (his intellect is not great). 2 a a clever or knowledgeable person. b the intelligentsia regarded …

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  • 105The Last Messiah — For the song The Last Messiah by Hawkwind, see Church of Hawkwind Den sidste Messias (English: The Last Messiah), published in 1933, is one of Peter Wessel Zapffe s most significant essays as well as concepts, which sums up his own thoughts from… …

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  • 106The Thunder, Perfect Mind — For the Current 93 album, see Thunder Perfect Mind (album). For the Nurse With Wound album, see Thunder Perfect Mind (Nurse With Wound album). The Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poem discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi in… …

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  • 107intellect — noun 1 (C, U) the ability to understand things and to think intelligently: new scientific ideas that are a challenge to the human intellect | a woman of superior intellect 2 (C) someone who is very intelligent: some of the greatest intellects in… …

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  • 108intellect — [14] Intellect and intelligent come from the same ultimate source: Latin intelligere ‘perceive, choose between’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix inter ‘between’ and legere ‘gather, choose, read’ intend 290 (source of English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 109intellect — [14] Intellect and intelligent come from the same ultimate source: Latin intelligere ‘perceive, choose between’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix inter ‘between’ and legere ‘gather, choose, read’ (source of English lecture, legible …

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  • 110intellect — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ brilliant, formidable, great, keen, powerful, sharp, superior, towering ▪ limited, low …

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