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111mudra — /meuh drah /, n. 1. Hinduism, Buddhism. any of a series of arm and hand positions expressing an attitude or action of the deity. 2. any of various similar gestures used in India s classical dancing to represent specific feelings. [1805 15; < Skt… …
112Roman Catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church. [1815 25] * * * Largest single Christian denomination in the world, with some one billion members, or about 18% of the world s population. The Roman Catholic church has… …
113musical criticism — Introduction branch of philosophical aesthetics concerned with making judgments about composition or performance or both. Unfortunately, it is difficult to show that a value judgment can stand for anything that is even remotely true… …
114Glossary of ancient Roman religion — This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. Ancient Roman religion …
115Dream speech — In 1906 the famous German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin published a monograph titled Über Sprachstörungen im Traume ( On Language Disturbances in Dreams ). In his psychiatry textbook Kraepelin used the shortcut Traumsprache to denote language… …
116Open and closed systems in social science — Ludwig Bertalanffy describes two types of systems: open systems and closed systems. The open systems are systems that allow interactions between its internal elements and the environment. An open system is defined as a “system in exchange of… …
117mantra — A mantra is a specially empowered spoken or chanted utterance, usually in SANSKRIT, although there are utterances called mantras in every Indian language. Mantras vary in size from one short syllable to a long chant, such as found in the… …
118Metaphysics and science in the thirteenth century: William of Auvergne, Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon — Steven Marrone By the third decade of the thirteenth century there emerge the first signs of a new metaphysics. Alongside Neoplatonizing idealism we now see attempts to lay greater emphasis on the ontological density of the created world and to… …
119expression — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. representation, symbolization, indication; statement, utterance, wording, communication; modulation, shading, interpretation; idiom, phrase, term; aspect, look, pose; token; saying. See affirmation,… …
120statement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. assertion, declaration, affirmation; report; bill, account. See accounting, speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of stating] Syn. utterance, comment, allegation, declaration, observation, remark,… …
