These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Demise, Demisemiquaver, Demiurge.
(a laying down), in law a grant by lease; is applied to an estate either in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for a term of life or years. As applied to the crown of England, demise signifies its transmission to the next heir on being laid down by the sovereign at death.
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in music, half a semi-quaver, or the 32d part of a semibreve.
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in some of the Peloponnesian states the name of a magistrate, probably corresponding to the tribunes Rome. It is also a name given by the Platonian philosophers to an exalted and mysterious agent, by whom God was supposed to have created the universe. He corresponds to the Logos or Word of St. John and the Platonizing Christians of the Early Church.
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Greek philosopher of the new Eleatic school, a native of Abdera, who was born between 470 and 460 b. c. He traveled to Egypt, where he studied geometry. Among the Greek philosophers he enjoyed the instruction of Leucippus. He afterward returned to his native city, where he was placed at the head of public affairs. Indignant at the follies of the Abderites, he resigned his office and retired to devote himself exclusively to philosophical studies. He explained the origin of the world by the eternal motion of an infinite number of invisible and indivisible bodies or atoms, which differ from one another in form, position, and arrangement, and which have a primary motion, which brings them into contact, and forms innumerable combinations, the result of which is seen in the productions and phenomena of nature. In this way the universe was formed, fortuitously, without the interposition of a First Cause . He applied his atomical theory, also, to natural philosophy and astronomy. Even the gods he considered to have arisen from atoms, and to be perishable like the rest of things existing. written a great deal; but nothing has He is said to have come to us except a few fragments. He died 370 b. C., at an advanced age. His school was supplanted by that of Epicurus.
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A celebrated philosopher of Abdera , one of the disciples of Leucippus . He traveled over the greatest part of Europe, Asia , and Africa in quest of knowledge, and returned home in the greatest poverty. He indulged in continual laughter at the follies of mankind for distracting themselves with care and anxiety in the short term of their lives. He told Darius, who was inconsolable for the loss of his wife, that he would raise her from the dead if he could find three persons who had gone through life without adversity, whose names he might engrave on the queen's monument. He taught his disciples that the soul died with the body. He died in his 109th year, B. C. 361. He has been termed the laughing philosopher. Dr. Johnson refers to this phase in his character in "The Vanity of Human Wishes": "Once more, Democritus, arise on earth, With cheerful wisdom and instructive mirth, See motley life in modern trappings drest, And feed with varied fools th' eternal jest."
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a genus of arachnida, folliculorum inhabits the sebaceous folusually placed in the family acarina. D. pecially in the vicinity of the nose. licles of the face of many persons, es- (Anthropoides virgo). It is of a slaty-
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a species of crane gray color, with the outer portion of the quill-feathers dingy black; a tuft of feathers from the breast blackish. It is found all over Africa, whence it finds its way occasionally to Europe and India. It is called also the Numidian crane. vr), a French mathematician; born in
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ABRAHAM (de-mwa ' Vitry, May 26, 1667. He settled in London after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His chief works are: "Miscellanea Analytica"; "The Doctrine of Chances, or a Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events at Play"; and a in the "Transactions" of the Royal Sowork on " Annuities," besides "Papers" ciety, of which he was a fellow. He died in London, Nov. 27, 1754. Greeks to beings equivalent to those
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a name given by the ancient spiritual existences termed angels in the Bible. The word in Scripture is translated devil , but it meant properly a spirit generally, whether good or evil. lates to demons, a body of spiritual be-
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The history and description of demons and all that concerns them. Authors who write upon this subject-such as Wierus, Delancre, Leloyer are sometimes called demonographers.
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Divination by means of demons. This divination takes place by the oracles they make, or by the answers they give to those who evoke them.
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The mania of those who believe all that is told concerning demons and sorcerers, such as Bodin, Delancre, Leloyer, and others. Bodin's work is entitled Demonomania of the Sorcerers, but in this case it signifies devilry. De Morgan, Mrs.: The author of a mystico-spiritual work entitled From Matter to Spirit, published in 1863. Mrs. de Morgan, whose interest in spiritualism was awakened at the séances of Mrs. Hayden, was the wife of Professor de Morgan, who himself offered emphatic testimony to the genuineness of Mrs. Hayden's mediumship.
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or ENCHORIAL ALPHA- BET, a simplification of the hieratic, of the which again was a contraction hieroglyphic characters.
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medicines which tend to soothe or protect the mucous membranes against irritants. They are generally composed of starch, gum, albuminous or oily substances largely diluted.
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in maritime law, (1) the time during which a vessel is detained by the freighter beyond what is named in the charter-party in loading or unloading. A vessel thus detained is said to be on demurrage . (2) The compensation or allowance made by the freighter of a vessel for such delay or detention. Demurrage must be paid in every case except when the delay is caused by tempestuous weather, any fault of the owner , captain, or crew of the vessel, or detention by an enemy. The word is also applied to a similar compensation or allowance payable for delay in loading or unloading railway cars beyond a certain specified period allowed for the purpose. In the Bank of England, demurrage is the allowance of 1½d. per ounce made to the bank in exchanging coins or notes for bullion. The metallic value of standard gold is £3 17s. 10½d. per ounce; at the Bank of England £3 17s . 9d. is given for it without any delay. If it were taken to the mint there would be a delay of some days before it could be converted into coin. The difference of 1½d. per ounce, by which this delay is avoided, is called demurrage.
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