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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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Isaac Williams
Language; Encyclopedias
Tractarian, born in Wales; educated at Oxford; got acquainted with Keble; wrote religious poetry and Tract LXXX. on "Reserve in Religious Teaching" (1802-1865).
Charles Mayne Young
Language; Encyclopedias
Tragedian, born in London, made his début in 1798; married in 1805 a gifted young actress, Julia Anne Grimani, with whom he had often played in lover's parts, and whom, after a ...
Arminius Vambéry
Language; Encyclopedias
Traveller and philologist, born in Hungary, of poor Jewish parentage; apprenticed to a costumier; took to the study of languages; expelled from Pesth as a revolutionary in 1848, ...
Waldeck-Pyrmont
Language; Encyclopedias
Two high-lying territories in North Germany forming one principality and subject to imperial authority; consists of hill and valley.
Uist
Language; Encyclopedias
Two islands of the Outer Hebrides, called respectively North and South, forming part of Inverness-shire; separated by the island of Benbecula, with a population of over 3000 each; ...
Urim and Thummim
Language; Encyclopedias
Two ornaments attached to the breastplate of the Jewish high-priest which, when consulted by him, at times gave mysteriously oracular responses.
Tropics
Language; Encyclopedias
Two parallels of latitude on either side of the equator, which mark the limits N. and S. of the sun's verticality to the earth's surface, the distance being in each case 23½°; the ...
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