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  • 21None — • Essay on the daytime canonical hour recited in mid afternoon Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. None     None     † …

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  • 22industrial society — It is important to distinguish the descriptive from the analytical uses of this term. At a descriptive level, an industrial society is simply one displaying the characteristic features of industrialism , as listed under that heading. However, the …

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  • 23unexceptionable — adjective Etymology: un + obsolete exception to take exception, object Date: 1664 not open to objection or criticism ; beyond reproach ; unimpeachable < unexceptionable integrity > • unexceptionableness noun • unexceptionably adverb …

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  • 24Pierre Louis Maupertuis — Maupertuis redirects here. For other uses, see Maupertuis (disambiguation). Pierre Louis Maupertuis Maupertuis, wearing lapmudes from his Lapland expedition. Born …

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  • 25Itikaf — or Etikaf or E tikaf is, in the Islamic faith, a particularly commended pious practice consisting of a period of retreat in a mosque, for a certain number of days in accordance with the believer s own wish. Itikaf , Encyclopaedia of Islam ] It is …

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  • 26Peter Abelard —     Peter Abelard     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Peter Abelard     Dialectician, philosopher, and theologian, born 1079; died 1142. Peter Abelard (also spelled Abeillard, Abailard, etc., while the best manuscripts have Abaelardus) was born in the&#8230; …

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  • 27Nakhlé Moutran — while in the United States. Nakhlé[1] Moutran[2]was pasha of Baalbek (Lebanon) during the Ottoman Empire. Content …

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  • 28pragmatic theory of truth — The view especially associated with James, that the truth of a statement can be defined in terms of the utility of accepting it. Put so baldly the view is open to objection, since there are things that are false that it may be useful to accept,&#8230; …

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  • 29irregular — ir·reg·u·lar /ir re gyə lər/ adj: not in accord with laws, rules, procedures, or established custom ir·reg·u·lar·ly adv Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. ir …

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  • 30nihil obstat — [ˌnʌɪhɪl ɒbstat, ˌnɪhɪl] noun (in the Roman Catholic Church) a certificate that a book is not open to objection on doctrinal or moral grounds. Origin L., lit. nothing hinders …

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