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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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Mount Taurus
Language; Encyclopedias
A mountain range of Turkey in Asia, stretching W. for about 500 m. in an unbroken chain from the head-waters of the Euphrates to the Aegean Sea, and forming the S. buttress of the ...
Tabernacle
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A movable structure of the nature of a temple, erected by the Israelites during their wanderings in the wilderness; it was a parallelogram in shape, constructed of boards lined ...
sonata
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A musical composition chiefly designed for solo instruments, especially the pianoforte, and consisting generally of three or four contrasted movements—the allegro, adagio, rondo, ...
Emmanuel Swedenborg
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A mystic of the mystics, founder of the "New Church," born at Stockholm, son of a bishop, a boy of extraordinary gifts and natural seriousness of mind; carefully educated under ...
Solar Myth
Language; Encyclopedias
A myth, the subject of which is a deified personification of the sun or phenomena connected with it.
Sisyphus
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A mythical king of Corinth, who for some offence he gave the gods was carried off to the nether world, and there doomed to roll a huge block up a hill, which no sooner reached the ...
Tai-Pings
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A name bestowed upon the followers of Hung Hsiu-ch`wan, a village schoolmaster of China, who, coming under the influence of Christian teaching, sought to subvert the religion and ...
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