Coronado
. See Pueblos
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Single-source entries: C (149)
These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Coronado, Coronea, Coronella.
Coronea
a small town of Bœotia, S. W. of Lake Copais, where in 447 B. C. the Bœotians defeated the Athenians, and in 394 Agesilaus defeated the allied Greeks.
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Coronella
a genus of ophidians, the typical one of the family Coronellidæ. C. austriaca is common in Europe.
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Coronellide
a family of ophidians, suborder Colubrina. They are broad snakes, flat beneath, beneath, with the shields of the head regular.
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Coronis
the daughter of King Phoroneus, whom Neptune loved, and who was changed into a crow by Minerva.
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Coronite
an explosive, consisting of a mixture of nitroglycerin, nitro-cellulose, ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, aluminum stearate, rye flour, wood meal, and liquid paraffin.
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Corozo Nut
the seed of a palm, phytelephas macrocarpa, a native of tropical America, the hardened albumen of which is used by turners under the name of vegetable ivory.
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Corporal
formerly a kind of brigade-major, who commanded skirmishing parties detached from the other forces. As now used it means a petty non-commissioned officer ranking immediately under a sergeant, and just above the ordinary rank and file. He has charge of one of the squads of the company, places and relieves sentinels, and keeps good order in the guard.
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Corporal
a name given to the linen cloth, also called pall and chalice-veil, with which the celebrant covers what is left of the consecrated elements in the Holy Communion till the service is concluded.
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Corps
a body; a word often used as a military and a political term. A corps d'armée, or army corps, one of the largest divisions of an army. In the United States it formerly numbered 25,- 000 men, but has now been replaced by a Field Army of two or more divisions under a lieutenant-general. The term was abolished in the British army in 1906. Corps diplomatique, the body of diplomatic characters. ministers or Corps législatif (kōr lā-zhis-la-tef), the lower house of the French legislature in 1857-1870. Its members were elected for six years in the proportion of one to 35,000 electors.
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Corpse Candles
Mysterious lights supposed to presage death. They are also called fetch-lights and dead men's candles. Coscinomancy is practised with a sieve, and a pair of tongs or shears, which are supported upon the thumb nails of two persons, who look one upon the other, or the nails of the middle finger may be used. Potter, in his Greek Antiquities, says: "It was generally used to discover thieves, or others suspected of any crime, in this manner: they tied a thread to the sieve by which it was upheld, or else placed a pair of shears, which they held up by two fingers, then prayed to the gods to direct and assist them; after that they repeated the names of the persons under suspicion, and he, at whose name the sieve whirled round or moved, was thought guilty." In the Athenian Oracle it is called "the trick of the sieve and scissors, the coskiomancy of the ancients, as old as Theocritus," he having mentioned in his third idyll, a woman who was very skilful in it. Saunders, in his Chiromancy, and Agrippa, at the end of his works, gives certain mystic words to be pronounced before the sieve will turn. It was used to discover love secrets as well as unknown persons. According to Grose, a chapter in the Bible is to be read, and the appeal made to St. Peter or St. Paul.
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Corpus Christi
city and countyseat of Nueces co., Tex.; on Corpus Christi bay, at the mouth of the Nueces river, and on the Mexican National, the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico, and the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railroads, 140 miles S. S. E. of San Antonio. It is the stock-raising and farming center of the county, and has an extensive fish and oyster-packing business, several daily and w weekly newspapers, a Catholic convent, several churches, 2 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,222; (1920) 10,522.
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Corpus Christi College
a college of Cambridge University, England, founded in 1352, when, by reason of the plague, many churches in England were left without priests. To help meet this need two guilds of Cambridge, St. Mary and Corpus Christi, united to found a college to educate clergymen. The members of this college held the services in St. Benet's church, hence the college was known as Benet College. In 1827 its official name was changed to Corpus Christi. In the reigns of Henry VIII. and of Elizabeth, the master of the college was Archbishop Parker, to whom it is chiefly inde indebted for the valuable collection of monastic records in its possession which were donated to the college upon the dissolution of the monasteries. A large and interesting collection of plate is another of its valuable assets. The main building of the college stands practically the same as it did when erected in the 14th century. Among its many distinguished alumni were the dramatists Marlowe and Fletcher. The college consists of master and 33 fellows, in addition to about 100 undergraduates.
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Corpus Christi College (II)
a college of Oxford University, England, founded in 1516, when the humanist movement in Europe was at its height. Its foundation and the provisions governing it are notable in the intellectual history of the university. Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester, and Bishop Oldham, of Exeter, were the founders. It was the first college in England to break away from the old scholastic traditions and to establish an endowed chair in Greek. It also admitted all members of the university to the lectures. For these measures, as well as for the emphasis placed on the humanistic studies, it won high praise from Erasmus. Among its many distinguished graduates were Thomas Arnold, Hooker, and Nicholas Udall, the author of the first English comedy. Its present foundation provides for a president, ent. 14 fellows, 27 scholars, and a number of undergraduates. In 1913 the number of the latter was 89, but the war reduced their numbers considerably.
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Corpus Christi Festival
the most splendid festival of the Roman Catholic Church. It was instituted in 1264, in honor of the Consecrated Host and with a view to its adoration, by Pope Urban IV., who appointed for its celebration the Thursday after the festival of the Trinity and promised to all the penitents who took part in it indulgence for a period of from 40 to 100 days. The festival is chiefly distinguished by magnificent processions. In France it is known as the Fête Dieu; in Fronleichnamsfest. German, as the
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