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Language

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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Surabaya

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A seaport on the NE. coast or Java, is the head-quarters of the Dutch military, and exports tropical products; of the population 6000 are European, and 7000 or so Chinese.

Stromness

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A seaport on the Orkney island of Pomona.

Socinians

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A sect of the Unitarian body who, in the 16th century, take their name from Faustus Socinus, who, besides denying the doctrine of the Trinity, deny the divinity of Christ and the ...

Sophists

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A sect of thinkers that arose in Greece, and whose radical principle it was that we have only a subjective knowledge of things, and that we have no knowledge at all of objective ...

Three Hours' Agony

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A service held on Good Friday from 12 noon till 3 o'clock to commemorate the Passion of Christ.

stereoscope

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A simple optical apparatus which, when two photographs of an object taken from slightly different standpoints (so as to secure the appearance it presents to either eye singly) are ...