These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Imprisonment, Impropriation, Improved Electropoion Fluid.
the restraint of one's liberty under the custody, charge, or keeping of another. No man can be imprisoned except by the law of the land, and no man is to be imprisoned except as the law directs, either by command and order of a court of record, or by lawful warrant.
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in the English Church, the transfer benefice to the possession of layman, the annexing of benefices to ecclesiastical corporations being called "appropriation," though they are sometimes identical. IMPROVISATORE (im-prō-vēz-ätōr-ä), one who composes and recites or sings extemporaneous or impromptu verses upon any given subject without premeditation. The Italians particularly excel in this species of composition, owing, no doubt, in great measure, to the richness and flexibility of their language.
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Important: Safety Warning This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. Add one part (by volume) of sulphuric acid to 10 parts of water. Of 10 pounds (or pints) of the dilute acid, add from 1 to 2 pounds of chromic acid, according to the strength of current desired. Where constant action over a long time is desired, rather than maximum energy, omit part or all of the sulphuric acid. Bichromate of potash is no longer used for batteries by intelligent workers. It owes its virtues to a small amount of chromic acid which can be obtained from it by reaction. Pure chromic acid is cheaper for the same work, and is free from many of the difficulties attendant on the use of the bichromate.
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The ruby pin of the lever escapement which, entering the notch of the lever, unlocks the escape wheel and then receives impulse from the lever and passes out at the opposite side.
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or INE (ē'nä), a King of the West Saxons in the 7th and 8th centuries. He succeeded Ceadwalla about 689, and after having obtained advantages over the people of Kent in 694 he turned his arms against the Britons, from whom he wrested Somersetshire and other parts of the west of England. He then made war on the Mercians; but the contest was terminated, without much advantage to either party, by a bloody battle in 715. He resigned his crown and went as a pilgrim to Rome (728), where he passed the rest of his days in devotion. He was one of the principal legislators of the Anglo-Saxons. His laws are the oldest known to us among the Anglo-Saxon except thon the kings of Kent, and served as the foundation of the code formed by Alfred the Great.
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in Greek mythology, a river god. He was father of Io and hence ancestor of many ancient royal families.
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(in-ak'tōs), a true sugar found in the leaves of certain plants previous to flowering. Some of the tobacco family contain as much as 12 per cent. It is less sweet than cane sugar.
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a tree growing in South America, common to the countries near the Amazon; sometimes called the jagua palm. The great woody spathes are sometimes used as cooking utensils and will not burn if filled with water. The fruit grows in clusters and has a tough skin, a soft pulp, and a hard, stony seed. The Indians eat it and monkeys and birds are fond of it.
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a Peruvian or rather Quichua title, signifying chief, applied to the imperial head of the Peruvian empire, and also to the governing caste or race from which he sprung. The empire of the Incas, founded according to tradition, in the 11th century, by the celebrated Manco Capac, extended over the table-land of the Andes, from Pasto to the neighborhood of Chile, as well as the low lands on the coast. It was destroyed by the Spaniards under Pizarro and Almagro. The blood royal of the Incas is preserved, or believed to be so, among Indians of the present day. INCANDESCENCE. See ELECTRIC LIGHT.
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a formula, either said or sung, supposed to add force to magical ceremonies. Incantations in classic times were employed: (1) To control the powers of Nature; (2) to compel the attendance and assistance of supernatural beings; (3) as love spells. In the Authorized Version incantations among the Jews are called enchantments. Those who practiced them are coupled with dreamers.
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the usual theological term for the union of the divine nature with the human in the divine person of Christ. The word incarnatio first occurs in the Latin version of Irenæus, and in the Greek fathers we find its equivalent sarkosis and enanthrōpēsis.
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a perfumed vapor usually of smoky appearance. Sir G. Birdwood considers that religious censing of persons and things grew out of purificatory fumigation. The marbles of Nineveh furnish examples of offering incense to the Sungod; and the Hindus employed it from the remotest antiquity. Jewish. Qetoreth, qetorah. This is sometimes confounded with lebonah, frankincense, which is the name of a plant. Incense was compounded of stacte, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense, an equal part of each by weight. Any one making a similar composition was to be cut off from the people of God (Exod. xxx: 34-38). Incense was to be burnt every morning and evening on the "altar of incense." (Exod. xxx: 7, 8). Christian. In the Roman and Greek Churches it is used in all the solemn offices. It is mentioned in the first Ordo Romanus, probably of the 7th century. It is also used in the Catholic and Apostolic Church. In the Anglican Church the use of incense was gradually abandoned after the reign of Edward VI. till the ritualistic revival of the present day; but it has never been formally prohibited.
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the crime of sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is forbid den by the law of the country. Spiritual incest is a term denoting the crime of sexual intercourse between persons spiritually allied by baptism or confirmation. Also the act of a vicar or other benefici: ary who hold two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.
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