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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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Ephori
Language; Encyclopedias

(Overseers), the name of five magistrates annually elected in ancient Sparta from among the people as a countercheck to the authority of the kings and the senate; had originally ...

Eulenspiegel
Language; Encyclopedias

(Owl-glass), the hero of a popular German tale, which relates no end of pranks, fortunes, and misfortunes of a wandering mechanic born in a village in Brunswick; buried in 1350 at ...

Fakir
Language; Encyclopedias

(Poor), a member of an order of monkish mendicants in India and adjoining countries who, from presumed religious motives, practise or affect lives of severe self-mortification, ...

Epigoni
Language; Encyclopedias

The Descendants, the name given to the sons of the Seven who perished before Thebes; they avenged the death of their fathers by razing Thebes to the ground; the war first and last ...

Faineants
Language; Encyclopedias

(The Do-nothings), the name given to the kings of France of the Merovingian line from 670 to 752, from Thierry III. to Childéric III., who were subject to their ministers, the ...

Gesta Romanorum
Language; Encyclopedias

The exploits of the Romans, a collection of short didactic stories, not however solely Roman, written in the Latin tongue, probably towards the close of the 13th century, the ...

Exodus
Language; Encyclopedias

(The Going out), the book of the Old Testament which records the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, and the institution of the moral and ceremonial laws ...

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