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	Nicene Creed Nicene Creed a formal statement of Christian belief which is very widely used in Christian liturgies, based on that adopted at the first Council of Nicaea in 325.... Read more
	deed deed in law, written document that is signed and delivered by which one person conveys land or other realty (see property ) to another. A deed may assure the extent of the conveying party's ownership or, if the party is uncertain of the precise extent, he issues a quitclaim (i.e., a sale), without... Read more
	dress dress v. 1. draw up (troops) in the proper alignment. 2. (of troops) come into such an alignment. n. denoting military uniform or other clothing used on formal or ceremonial occasions: a dress suit. dress ship decorate a ship with flags, for a special occasion.... Read more
	holy water holy water in Christian churches, water blessed to symbolize spiritual cleansing. In Roman Catholic churches there is a bowl (stoup or font) of holy water near the doors, so that the faithful may bless themselves with it on entering. Holy water is a sacramental and is used in formal blessings, in... Read more
	excommunication excommunication formal expulsion from a religious body, the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. Where religious and social communities are nearly identical it is attended by social ostracism, as in the case of Baruch Spinoza, excommunicated by the Jews. In Christianity the Roman Catholic Chu... Read more
	acknowledgment acknowledgment in law, formal declaration or admission by a person who executed an instrument (e.g., a will or a deed) that the instrument is his. The acknowledgment is made before a court, a notary public, or any other authorized person. Acknowledgment permits the instrument to be given in evidenc... Read more
	chiffon chiffon , plain-weave, lightweight, sheer, transparent fabric made of cotton, silk, or synthetic fiber; it is made of fine, highly twisted, strong yarn. Chiffon is difficult to handle, but it drapes and wears well and is very durable despite its light weight. It is piece-dyed or piece-printed and ma... Read more
	fantasia fantasia [Ital.,=fancy], musical composition not restricted to a formal design, but constructed freely in the manner of an improvisation. In the 16th and 17th cent., however, the term designated a contrapuntal piece employing imitation and thus was one of the forerunners of the fugue . The term ... Read more
	Felix Felix (d. 818), Bp. of Urgel in Spain and one of the leaders of the Adoptianist heresy. He was charged as a heretic at the Council of Ratisbon (792) and recanted. He later became convinced of his heresy again and was unmoved by the criticism of his doctrine written by Alcuin. He was formally accused... Read more
	Henri Focillon Henri Focillon , 1881-1943, French art historian. Focillon, who was professor of art history at the Collège de France, was an authority on medieval art, the subject of his two-volume treatise Art of the West in the Middle Ages (2d ed. 1969). His book Life Forms in Art (1934) outlines his ... Read more

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	formalism Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature formalism, a term applied, usually pejoratively...stylistic features. More positively, formalism as a critical principle may be defended...prominent, so in modern literary criticism, formalism has been a powerful principle, notably...
	Formalism Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Formalism, theatrical method popular in Russia soon after the October Revolution, and practised by Meyerhold , by Akimov in his earlier...
	Jurisprudence Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...attempted to answer these questions: formalism proposes that law is a science; realism...langdell, the father of U.S. legal formalism, joined the faculty at Harvard Law School. Formalism Legal formalism, also known as conceptualism...
	James Earl Russell Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...former examinations." This early sensitivity to the "rigid formalism" of traditional secondary education was to influence Russell...Russell, becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the rigid formalism of American secondary education, resigned his position at...
	Egyptian art Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...retained, but the unity of style was broken. Increasing formalism was combined with a meticulous delicacy of craftsmanship...1314-1085 BC) saw an attempt to return to the classic formalism of the earlier New Kingdom, but the vitality that characterized...
	Whereas Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...the solemnity of the occasion. The term has been criticized as an overused legal formalism that clutters contracts and other legal documents. Legal formalism means the special usages of the language of law, many of which are archaic and which...
	Williston, Samuel Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...During his career at Harvard, Williston aligned himself with legal formalism, which in the early twentieth century dominated legal thought in the United States. Legal formalism views the law as a body of scientific rules from which legal decisions...
	English Education Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...Britain. The tradition in early literacy instruction was one of formalism, which posits that knowledge of the forms of language (as...taking place, matching trends in American education away from formalism toward student- and child-centered education. Proclamation...
	Autonomy Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...of economic life. Kant was never fully able to extend the formalism of his own argument to all persons (he withheld the faculty...women or servants to exercise free judgment). Moreover, the formalism that was intrinsic to his argument also encouraged a conflation...
	Augustin Jean Fresnel Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the edge of the shadow. Most importantly, his mathematical formalism of the wave theory of light could predict the exact width...intact the validity of his basic insights into the mathematical formalism that alone can account for the most common features of the...

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	Formalism Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas FORMALISM. Formalism in literary studies was not merely about formal elements of literature...when separated from the latter and vice versa. At the same time, formalism stressed the need to view literature as an autonomous verbal art...
	formalism Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art formalism. A term used in the discussion of the...x2019; Greenberg's ideas on formalism were more sophisticated but no less dubious...are to a large extent interdependent. Formalism has been particularly opposed in Communist...
	Shostakovich, Dmitry (Dmitryevich) Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...petty-bourgeois sensationalism’, and ‘formalism’ in an article headed ‘Chaos instead...following the notorious Zhdanov decree against ‘formalism’ and ‘anti-people art’...
	lambda calculus Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing lambda calculus ( λ-calculus ) A formalism for representing functions and ways of combining functions...a ) and hence to g ( a,b ) In theoretical terms, the formalism of λ-calculus can be shown to be equivalent in...
	Clear Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing ...Burstall and J.A. Goguen in 1977. The language provides a formalism for expressing a complex specification hierarchically as a combination of simpler ones. This formalism can be given a precise semantics using ideas familiar from algebra...
	Mat Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Bigor, G., in Kinoizkustvo (Sofia), July 1979. Hudlin, E., "Film Language: Pudovkin and Eisenstein and Russian Formalism," in Journal of Aesthetic Education (Urbana, Illinois), no. 2, 1979. Burns, P. E., "Linkage: Pudovkin's Classics...
	Morte a Venezia Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...xE0; Venise Issue" of Avant-Scène du Cinéma (Paris), July 1971. Korte, Walter, "Marxism and Formalism in the Films of Luchino Visconti," in Cinema Journal (Evanston, Illinois), Fall 1971. Oudart, J. P., and S. Daney...
	Soy Cuba Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...of cinema audiences world-wide, however, but its dramatic, passionate, and impulsive cinematic style. Accused of "formalism" or "art for art's sake," and said to lack drama and personal interest, I Am Cuba received stern criticism in official...
	Valahol Europaban Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...in Italy by De Sica, Rossellini, and other film artists. The rebukes of contemporary critics, who called attention to "formalism for its own sake" have been forgotten. The masterly art of cameraman Barnabás Hegyi gives vitality to the poetic...
	Poetry and Poetics Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...say or do in certain situations). An ancient concern for genre thereby anticipated one of the fundamental tenets of later formalism, namely that representational content is inseparable from representational form. With the identification and accumulation...

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pedantry
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...noun the pedantry in her argument has upset the flow of our discussion synonyms : dogmatism, purism, literalism, formalism; overscrupulousness, scrupulousness, perfectionism, fastidiousness, punctiliousness, meticulousness; captiousness...

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	Unravelling Lorentz covariance and the spacetime formalism.(Report) Magazine article from: Progress in Physics; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...invariant speed". If this latter formalism were taken as fundamental and complete...Lorentz covariance and the spacetime formalism in Special Relativity (SR) is inconsistent...dynamical 3-space, and the spacetime formalism is explicitly resolved by the discovery...
	Shakespeare and Historical Formalism.(Book review) Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Cohen, ed. Shakespeare and Historical Formalism. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company...early modern conferences, historical formalism might seem to be the latest candidate...collected in Shakespeare and Historical Formalism are too thoughtful, self-aware, and...
	Xinhua Commentary Criticizes Formalism News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/11/2000; 407 words ; ...commentary today exposing the harm of formalism and calling for resolute efforts to get...long time, some localities have favored formalism, that is, cooking official accounts...Despite the various forms it may take, formalism actually stems from a deviation from...
	Formalism, 'free law', and the 'cognition' quandary: Hans Kelsen's approaches to legal interpretation. Magazine article from: University of Queensland Law Journal; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...voiced criticism of Kelsen's ostensible formalism. When criticism in this vein is set...those who are wedded to the charge of formalism, I examine in sections III and IV the...returning, in particular, to the charge of formalism, my focus in section II. II THE CHARGE...
	Incremental and unifying modelling formalism for biological interaction networks.(Research article) Magazine article from: BMC Bioinformatics; 11/8/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Procrustean bed of a particular modeling formalism [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. However, if...An appropriate choice of the modeling formalism may be crucial for efficiently describing...In this paper, we propose a modeling formalism for the biologists that enables the expression...
	Conceptual formalism: Mark Prince on the legacy of Kenneth Noland.(Critical essay) Magazine article from: Art Monthly; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...degree of consistency. How then has formalism fared since, as the culture has gradually...crux of the generic templates of classic formalism--the all-over monochrome, the stripe...effectively as possible. In such a climate, formalism may be too rarified a basis for art practice...
	Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry Janes to the Present Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; SOCIAL FORMALISM: THE NOVEL IN THEORY FROM HENRY JAMES...theoretical continuum is their "social formalism," their belief that the novel embodies...American disciples) tries to move beyond formalism but, in so doing, develops the view...
	Supplement to a bibliography of Russian formalism in English. Magazine article from: Style; 12/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...supplement to my "Bibliography of Russian Formalism in English," published in a previous bibliographic...38. 2. Writings in English on Russian Formalism Any, Carol. "Introduction: Russian Formalism, 1915-1930." Soviet Studies in Literature...
	Virtually formal. (formalism in recent color-field paintings by various artists)(Cover Story) Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...word is getting tossed around again. "Formalism is back and better than ever," gushed...distance between their work and that of formalism's heyday. And yet a formalist reading...still seems attractive, if only because formalism itself now seems more capable of disclosing...
	Fear of formalism: indications from the fascist period in France and Germany of judicial methodology's impact on substantive law. Magazine article from: Cornell International Law Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...therefore as inclined towards judicial formalism or positivism, was blamed widely for...judicial decisions. (9) The question of formalism's role, and, more largely, of judicial...have tended to adhere to a tradition of formalism in their interpretive processes, while...