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1Picture Bibles — • In the Middle Ages the Church made use of pictures as a means of instruction, to supplement the knowledge acquired by reading or oral teaching Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Picture Bibles Picture Bibles …
2illustration — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An example] Syn. instance, case, model, sample; see example 1 . 2. [An illustrative picture] Syn. drawing, painting, engraving, etching, line drawing, diagram, figure, sketch, frontispiece, tailpiece, cartoon, vignette,… …
3illustration — (n.) c.1400, a shining; early 15c., a manifestation; mid 15c., a spiritual illumination, from O.Fr. illustration apparition, appearance, and directly from L. illustrationem (nom. illustratio) vivid representation (in writing), lit. an… …
4illustration — n. 1. Elucidation, explanation, exemplification. 2. Illustrative picture …
5drawing — /draw ing/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that draws. 2. a graphic representation by lines of an object or idea, as with a pencil; a delineation of form without reference to color. 3. a sketch, plan, or design, esp. one made with pen, pencil …
6Info-gap decision theory — is a non probabilistic decision theory that seeks to optimize robustness to failure – or opportuneness for windfall – under severe uncertainty,[1][2] in particular applying sensitivity analysis of the stability radius type[3] to perturbations in… …
7Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop — are all in the old feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, now East Ayrshire, Scotland. This local history article starts with the original land holdings of the baronies within the baillery of Cunninghame and follows these through to the country estates …
8literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
9Miniature (illuminated manuscript) — Miniature of the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil s Aeneid, early 5th century. The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium, red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple… …
10optics — /op tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the branch of physical science that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light and with vision. [1605 15; < ML optica < Gk optiká, n. use of neut. pl. of OPTIKÓS; see OPTIC,… …
