Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias

Terms from various encyclopedias and reference books.

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Name (from the Greek verb signifying "to abhor") of the principal river of the nether world, which it flows sluggishly round seven times; is properly the river of death, which all must cross to enter ...

Thing

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Name for a legislative or judicial assembly among the Scandinavians.

Ultima Thule

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Name given by the ancients to the farthest N. part of Europe, which they conceived as an island.

Thorough

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Name given by the Earl of Strafford to a scheme of his to establish absolute monarchy in England.

Storm-and-Stress Period

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Name given in the history of German literature to a period at the close of the 18th century, when the nation began to assert its freedom from artificial literary restraint, a period to which Goethe's ...

Works of Supererogation

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Name given in the Roman Catholic theology to works or good deeds performed by saints over and above what is required for their own salvation, and the merit of which is held to be transferable to ...

Sutras

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Name given to a collection of aphorisms, summaries of the teachings of the Brahmans, and of rules regulative of ritual or religious observances, and also given to these aphorisms and rules ...