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anathema
anathema [Gr.,=something set up; dedicated to a divinity as a votive offering], term that came to denote something devoted to a divinity for destruction. In the Bible, the term is herem. Anathema means "accursed" in the New Testament, where it clearly suggests separation from God as the... Read more |
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Zoomorphic
Zoömorphic or New Animal architecture. Late-C20 and early-C21 architecture characterized by wavy and flowing lines, loose, amorphous shapes, and, sometimes, with exteriors resembling carapaces. Examples might include Future Systems's Selfridge's Building in Birmingham (2001–3), Cook... Read more |
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Maranatha
Maranatha in biblical translations, a word representing an Aramaic phrase occurring in 1 Corinthians 16:22 and usually left untranslated, its exact interpretation being variously understood by scholars and translators. Current scholarship favours the interpretation ‘Come, O Lord!’;... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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Spinoza
SpinozaWORKS BY SPINOZASUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHYBenedictus (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-1677) was born to a family of Portuguese origin settled in the Jewish community at Amsterdam. He received a thorough Hebrew education in preparation, evidently, for a rabbinical career. He himself sought and gained... Read more |
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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev , 1871-1919, Russian writer. Andreyev's early stories were realistic studies of everyday life. Gorky was attracted by the note of social protest in his work and used his influence to obtain publication of Andreyev's first volume of short stories. After an enormous... Read more |
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Indian Mutiny
Indian Mutiny 1857-58, revolt that began with Indian soldiers in the Bengal army of the British East India Company but developed into a widespread uprising against British rule in India. It is also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, sepoys being the native soldiers. Causes of the Mutiny In the years... Read more |
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Kaspar von Schwenkfeld
Kaspar von Schwenkfeld , 1490-1561, German religious reformer. Schwenkfeld was in court service with the duke of Liegnitz from 1510 to c.1522. He visited Wittenberg during Martin Luther's absence at the Wartburg and there met the radical reformers Thomas Münzer and Carlstadt. Returning to... Read more |
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Second Vatican Council
Second Vatican Council popularly called Vatican II, 1962-65, the 21st ecumenical council (see council, ecumenical ) of the Roman Catholic Church, convened by Pope John XXIII and continued under Paul VI . Its announced purpose was spiritual renewal of the church and reconsideration of the... Read more |
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John Butler
John Butler 1728-96, Loyalist commander in the American Revolution, b. New London, Conn. He served in the French and Indian Wars and distinguished himself especially by leading the Native Americans in the successful British attack (1759) under Sir William Johnson against Niagara. Electing the... Read more |
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Carve-up in Poland; power-sharing brings problems for the opposition as well...
...desperation. Nine years of attempting to govern despite the sullen resistance of ordinary Poles have failed miserably. Yet Solidarity is still anathema to many party men. They may have had to cede representation to the opposition, but they will try... |
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Dodd bill aims to overhaul financial regulatory system ; Senator holds out...
...Federal Reserve, a compromise that has garnered Republican support but is anathema to liberal Democrats and consumer advocates who argue that the Fed failed miserably in protecting consumers in recent years. Such groups have insisted on an independent... |
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Keep guard up in international arena.(Special Report: State of Small Business)
...Kuala Lumpur. The product was introduced to Japanese consumers - and failed miserably. Unfortunately, the food processor did not know that to the Japanese, it is anathema to put anything but rice in a rice cooker, let alone a sticky cake mix... |
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Enemy of the planet
...merely as a householder, you want to dine alfresco in the evening, in the miserably sodden summer of 2007, you may well find the idea attractive. Yet they are anathema to environmentalists because of their profligate emissions of carbon dioxide... |
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Mortgage firms get incentive.(News)
...something the government has so far failed miserably to persuade them to do. ThatAEs where...program enacted last year that proved anathema to mortgage holders: requiring that...renegotiate a loan. The program failed miserably, helping fewer than 40 homeowners compared... |
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Productivity myths: how can businesses work at getting more for less? Ashley...
...occurred--and to date all have failed miserably. The key component of raising productivity...s holiday being tradable would be an anathema to a Scandinavian, a people who have...converting grass into protein BUT fails miserably to add any real value, preferring to... |
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Analysis: Obama offers carrots for mortgage firms
...something the government has so far failed miserably to persuade them to do. That's where...program enacted last year that proved anathema to mortgage holders: requiring that...renegotiate a loan. The program failed miserably, helping fewer than 40 homeowners compared... |
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Obituary: Frank Barber
...forthright in speech. He left school before he was 15 to work miserably in a solicitor's office. But he knew he wanted to be a...Union was seminal in his political thinking. Communism became anathema. Though all his life Barber was a man of the left, he was... |
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Film: John Cassavetes: cinema's Mr Ruthless He made harrowing films about...
...gangster flick with Rowlands in the lead, which was recently and miserably remade by Sidney Lumet and Sharon Stone). For a long time...notion that the personal is political, dogma of any kind was anathema to him; Mabel is neither a feminist role model nor a generic... |
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your views.(Local)
...failure. Performance is not a goal in a bureaucracy; it is anathema. Loring Nichols Suffolk Double-dipping insult Re "Bloated...If it is to pluck my heart strings, well, you've failed miserably. If it's to highlight the sad situation of a person who... |
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