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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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Christian Gellert
Language; Encyclopedias

A German poet, fabulist, and moralist, born in Saxony; professor of Philosophy at Leipzig; distinguished for the influence of his character and writings on the literature of the ...

August Hermann Francke
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A German religious philanthropist, born at Lubeck; was professor of Oriental Languages and subsequently of Theology at Halle; he founded various educational institutions and a ...

Johann Fischart
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A German satirist; an imitator of Rabelais (1545-1589).

Gargantua
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A gigantic personage, in Rabelais, of preternally lusty appetite and guzzling and gourmandising power; lived several centuries, and begat Pantagruel.

Faunus
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A god, grandson of Saturn, who figures in the early history of Latium, first as the god of fields and shepherds, and secondly, as an oracular divinity and founder of the native ...

Albrecht Gessler
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A governor of the forest cantons of Switzerland, who figures in Swiss legend as an oppressor who was shot as related in the tradition of Tell.

The Champs-de-Mars Federation
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A grand féte celebrated in the Champs-de-Mars, Paris, on July 14, 1790, the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille, at which deputies from the newly instituted departments ...

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