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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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Caraffa

Language; Encyclopedias

A distinguished Neapolitan family, which gave birth to a number of distinguished ecclesiastics, Paul IV. one of them.

Caraglio

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An eminent Italian engraver, born at Verona, engraved on gems and medals as well as copper-plate, after the works of the great masters (1500-1570).

Caravaggio

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An Italian painter, disdained the ideal and the ideal style of art, and kept generally to crass reality, often in its grossest forms; a man of a violent temper, which hastened his ...

caravanserai

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A large unfurnished inn, with a court in the middle for the accommodation of caravans and other travellers at night in the East.

carbohydrates

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A class of substances such as the sugars, starch, etc., consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, the latter in the proportion in which they exist in water.

Carbonari

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(Lit. charcoal burners), a secret society that, in the beginning of the 19th century, originated in Italy and extended itself into France, numbering hundreds of thousands, ...

Cardiff

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County town of Glamorganshire, S. Wales, on the river Taff, the sea outlet for the mineral wealth and products of the district, a town that has risen more rapidly than any other ...