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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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St. Cyr
Language; Encyclopedias

A French village, 2 m. W. of Versailles, where Louis XIV., at the request of Madame de Maintenon, founded an institution for the education of girls of noble birth but poor, which ...

Madame de Tencin
Language; Encyclopedias

A French writer of romances, a woman of clever wit and of personal charms, who abandoned a religious life and, coming to Paris in 1714, immersed herself in the political and ...

John Sterling
Language; Encyclopedias

A friend of Carlyle's, born at Kames Castle, Bute, son of Captain Sterling of the Times; studied at Glasgow and Cambridge; a man of brilliant parts and a liberal-minded, but of ...

stannary
Language; Encyclopedias

A general term used to cover the tin mines of a specified district, the miners themselves, and such customs and privileges as appertain to the workers and the mines. In England ...

Georg Ernest Stahl
Language; Encyclopedias

A German chemist, born at Anspach; was professor of Medicine at Halle; author of the theory of phlogiston and of animism (1650-1735).

Christian Thomasius
Language; Encyclopedias

A German jurist, born at Leipzig; was the first to prelect on jurisprudence in the German tongue, on which account, as on account of his advanced theological views, he encountered ...

Johann Tauler
Language; Encyclopedias

A German mystic, born in Strasburg, bred a monk of the Dominican order, had, along with the rest of his order, to flee the city, and settled in Basel, became a centre of religious ...

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