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anagram
anagram [Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question asked by Pilate. The question was Quid est veritas? [What is truth?], and the answer Est vir qui adest [it is ...
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comb. form
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denoting a place for running or racing:
velodrome.
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denoting something that runs or proceeds in a certain way:
palindrome.
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firing
firing n. 1. the action of setting fire to something: the deliberate firing of 600 oil wells. 2. the discharging of a gun or other weapon: the prolonged firing caused heavy losses | no missile firings were planned....
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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 penal...
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879-1958, American novelist and juvenile writer, b. Lawrence, Kans., grad. Ohio State, 1899, Ph.D. Columbia, 1904. Her novels include The Bent Twig (1915), The Deepening Stream (1930), Seasoned Timber (1939), and Four-square (1949). She also wrote short stories; Ve...
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, English author, b. Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Educated in England, Kipling returned to India in 1882 and worked as an editor on a Lahore paper. His early poems were collected in Departmental Ditties (1886), Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), and other volumes. His first sh...
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Peter Frederick Strawson
Peter Frederick Strawson 1919-, British philosopher, grad. Oxford. An influential spokesman for so-called ordinary language philosophy, he began teaching at Oxford in 1947 and from 1968 to 1987 was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics. In an early article, "On Referring" ( Mind, 1950), he disput...
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belief
belief in philosophy, commitment to something, involving intellectual assent. Philosophers have disagreed as to whether belief is active or passive; René Descartes held that it is a matter of will, while David Hume thought that it was an emotional commitment, and C. S. Peirce considered it a...
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norm
norm authoritative rule or standard by which something is judged and on that basis approved or disapproved. Examples of norms include standards of right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, and truth and falsehood. Several fields of philosophy, especially ethics , aesthetics , and logic , evaluate su...
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Thematic Apperception Test
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) A projective test developed in the United States in the 1930s, employing twenty monochromatic, indefinite pictures of human action. Respondents describe what is happening, what led up to this, and what follows. Narratives, which are assumed to reveal (through project...
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