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Numidia

the name given by the Romans to a part of the N. coast of Africa, corresponding to some extent with the modern Algiers, and lying between Mauretania and the Roman province of Africa; on the S. it reached to the chains of Mount Atlas. The inhabitants of Numidia, as of Mauretania, belonged to the race from which the modern Berbers are tions. Also a name given to a variety of pigeon, having its head almost covered with a veil of feathers; a name sometimes given to the smew. Also the blue titmouse.

NUNC DIMITTIS ("now thou lettest depart"), the first two words of the Latin version of the canticle of Simeon given in Luke ii: 29-32, and used as the designation of the whole canticle, which forms part of the_evening service in the Book of Common Prayer.

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