ransack
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ran·sack
/ ˈranˌsak; ranˈsak/
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v. [tr.]
go hurriedly through (a place) stealing things and causing damage:
burglars ransacked her home.
∎
search through (a place or receptacle) to find something, esp. in such a way as to cause disorder and damage:
Hollywood ransacks the New York stage for actors.
DERIVATIVES:
ran·sack·er
/ ˈranˌsakər/ n.
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Ramon Lull and the infidels.
Magazine article from: AI Magazine; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...work of an eccentric 13th century Spanish genius, Ramon Lull (1232-1316). Lull's sources were partly mystical, but the interesting...number of distinct pairs in a set of five things. Lull had still another source: lust. By his own account...
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HILDEGARD OF BINGEN AND RAMON LULL: TWO APPROACHES TO MEDIEVAL SPIRITUALITY
Magazine article from: Magistra; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...spirituality are Hildegard of Bingen and Ramon Lull. Hildegard is of interest because...emphasizing knighthood and the crusades, Lull is a good figure of investigation...Both Hildegard (1098-1179) and Lull (1232-1316) are important figures...
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"The Pulley": rundles, ropes, and ladders in John Wilkins, Ramon Lull, and George Herbert.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: George Herbert Journal; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of the Pandora story. My essay veers in another direction, studying how John Wilkins's description of pulleys and Ramon Lull's treatise on the divine dignities inform Herbert's witty conclusion. John Wilkins on Archimedes's Concept of...
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Histoire des idees et des combats d'idees aux XIVe et XVe siecles de Ramon Lull a Thomas More.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Henri Weber. (Etudes et Essais sur la Renaissance, 13.) Paris: Honore Champion, 1997. 947 pp. FFr 720. ISBN: 2-85203-672-X. This is a vast and wide-ranging synthesis of the European intellectual tradition during, roughly speaking, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The study's table of
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The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull: Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West around 1300.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; THE EVANGELICAL RHETORIC OF RAMON LLULL: LAY LEARNING AND PIETY...work The Spiritual Logic of Ramon Llull, Johnston offers a second...disciplines of the trivium to which Lull did not dedicate a separate...formulations that sum up its intent: "Ramon Lull's private devotion to...
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THE SITUATION: Mideast Lull Saps Strength Of Laborites, Diplomacy
Newspaper article from: Forward; 7/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...leader of the National Religious Party. Former minister Haim Ramon, who has announced plans to challenge Ben-Eliezer in the...drive to "recapture" Palestinian areas in the territories. Ramon also castigated Ben-Eliezer for agreeing only belatedly to...
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Winners in the Raiders haiku contest
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 10/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...pile up -- Sherry Weaver Smith, San Ramon Lull in the bye week, the Raiders need...Sherry Weaver Smith, San Ramon Lost in the black hole: off-season...wins -- Sherry Weaver Smith, San Ramon His "tough love" proves that Al...
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Israeli Strikes Resume After Brief Lull
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/31/2006; 700+ words
; ...more days to finish its offensive, and Justice Minister Haim Ramon told Army Radio on Monday he did not believe the fighting was...Israel from south Lebanon. This is what we are striving for," Ramon said. The stunning bloodshed in Qana increased international...
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Kicking back: peso stronger, stocks face possibility of summer lull.(Mexican stock market)
Magazine article from: Business Mexico; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...negative consumer reactions during the last months of 2005. Let's hope we don't once again find ourselves with an overvalued peso as Mexicans head to polls. Ramon Ruiz (rruiz@vinfagepartners.com) is a director of Vintage Partners.
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Combinatorics in technical creation.(Report)
Magazine article from: Annals of DAAAM & Proceedings; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...in general, and combinatorics, in particular, was Ramon Lull (1232-1316) (Fig.1) (Belous, 1992; Verone...dedicated to metaphysics and catholic missionary activities, Ramon Lull (Raimundo Lulio or Raymundus Lullus), was one of the...
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Lull, Ramon
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lull, Ramon ( b . Ciutat de Mallorques [now Palma de...polymathy . A Catalan encyclopedist, Lull invented an “ art of finding truth...s chief adviser, the Dominican Saint Ramon de Penyafort, dissuaded Lull from studying...
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Raymond Lull
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...official support for his program, Lull attended the Council of Vienne...study of the life and works of Lull is E. Allison Peers, Ramon...Fool of Love: The Life of Ramon Lull (1946). Some aspects...Olabarrieta, The Influence of Ramon Lull on the Style of the Early...
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Lull, Raymond
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Lull, Raymond. See LLULL, RAMON .
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Llull, Ramon
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Llull, Ramon ( c. 1233– c. 1315), also Raymond Lull , missionary and philosopher. He was born in Majorca, then recently recovered from Islamic rule, and educated as a knight...
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Comenius, John Amos
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Alsted ’ s concerns. Alsted, and anti-Aristotelian and a follower of Ramus, had a profound interest in Ramon Lull and Giordano Bruno, was a chiliast in theology, and worked for the gathering of all knowledge in his famous Encyclopaedia...
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