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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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Conop Thirlwall
Language; Encyclopedias
Historian, born at Shepney; was a precocious child, was educated at the Charterhouse, had Grote for a school-fellow, and was a student of Trinity College, Cambridge; called to the ...
Earl Stanhope Philip Henry
Language; Encyclopedias
Historian, born at Walmer, only son of the fourth Earl of Stan hope; graduated at Oxford in 1827, and three years later entered Parliament as a Conservative; held office as ...
Snorri Sturlason
Language; Encyclopedias
Icelandic historian and poet; published the collection of sagas entitled "Heimskringla," among which were many songs of his own composition; was a man of position and influence in ...
stigmata
Language; Encyclopedias
Impressions of marks corresponding to certain wounds received by Christ at His crucifixion, and which certain of the saints are said to have been supernaturally marked with in ...
Thrace
Language; Encyclopedias
In ancient Greece, was a region, ill defined, stretching N. of Macedonia to the Danube, and W. of the Euxine (Black Sea); appears never to have been consolidated into one kingdom, ...
syndicate
Language; Encyclopedias
In commercial parlance is a name given to a number of capitalists associated together for the purpose of carrying through some important business scheme, usually having in view ...
Lord High Steward
Language; Encyclopedias
In early times the highest office of state in England, ranking in power next to the sovereign; hereditary during many centuries, the office lapsed in the reign of Henry IV., and ...
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