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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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Socage

Language; Encyclopedias

Name given to a feudal tenure by a certain and determinate service other than knight service.

solano

Language; Encyclopedias

Name given to a hot oppressive wind in the Mediterranean.

Spasmodic School

Language; Encyclopedias

Name given to a small group of minor poets about the middle of the 19th century, represented by Philips, James Bailey, Sydney Dobell, and Alexander Smith, from their strenuous, ...

States-General

Language; Encyclopedias

Name given to an assembly of the representatives of the three estates of nobles, clergy, and bourgeoisie, or the Tiers État as it was called, in France prior to the Revolution of ...

theodicy

Language; Encyclopedias

Name given to an attempt to vindicate the order of the universe in consistency with the presence of evil, and specially to that of Leibnitz, in which he demonstrates that this is ...

syncretism

Language; Encyclopedias

Name given to an attempted blending of different, more or less antagonist, speculative or religious systems into one, such as Catholic and Protestant or Lutheran and Reformed.

Social War

Language; Encyclopedias

Name given to an Insurrection of the allied States in Italy against the domination of Rome, and which lasted from 90 to 88 B.C., in consequence of their exclusion from the rights ...