These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Inflammation, Inflorescence, Influenza.
a morbid state of the whole or any part of the system, characterized by heat, redness, and pain. The varieties are-parenchymatous, exudatory or secretory, plastic, rheumatic, gouty, gonorrheal, and others not so gou strictly defined.
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the arrangement of flowers upon a branch or stem. It may be axillary or terminal. In the former case the branch can grow indefinitely, producing new flowers on the axils, hence this is called an indefinite inflorescence; in the latter the terminal flower stops the further development of the branch, hence this kind of inflorescence is called definite. Inflorescence may be centripetal or centrifugal. Different kinds of inflorescence are (1) the spike, (2) the raceme, (3) the corymb, (4) the umbel, (5) the panicle, (6) the thyrsus, (7) the compound corymb and compound umbel, (8) the cyme. No. (1) is subdivided into- (a) the spike proper, (b) the ament or catkin, (c) the spadix, (d) the spikelet, (e) the cone, (f) the capitulum, and (g) the cœnanthium. and Inflorescence is also frequently called anthotaxis.
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a specific catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes of the air-passages, contagious, and often epidemic, atten ic, attended with early involvement of chill, lassitude, and prostration to a marked degree, intense pros frontal headache, giddiness, and acrid discharge from the nose, with sleepless nights, and sometimes delirium. Persistent cough, worst at night, expectoration, remittent feverishness, with nocturnal exacerbations, lasting from four to eight days, sometimes complicated with bronchitis or even pneumonia. A form known as Spanish Influenza was epidemic in the United States and in many other countries in 1918 and 1919, and caused thousands of deaths.
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the doctrine that the human soul is an emanation from, or an influx of, the Divine Substance. It is akin to the teaching of Pythagoras and of the Stoics. Its defenders in Christian times have relied on Gen. ii: 7. Infusionism is opposed to Traducianism, and to Creationism, the doctrine accepted by the Eastern and Western Churches.
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a siliceous deposit formed chiefly of the frustates of Diatoms. It is used as Tripoli powder for polishing purposes, and as an absorbent of nitro-glycerine in making dynamite.
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JOHN JAMES, an American lawyer; born in Middleton, Mass., Dec. 29, 1833; was graduated at Williams College in 1855 and admitted to the bar in 1857; settled in Atchison, Kan., in 1858; became secretary of the Kansas Senate in 1861; was elected a member of that body in 1862; and was United States Senator in 1873-1891, during which time he attained wide reputation as a public speaker. He was also president pro tem. of the Senate during the last three years of his service. He died in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Aug. 16, 1900.
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WILLIAM RALPH, an English clergyman. He was born at Clayke, Yorkshire, in 1860, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, being chosen as select preacher at Oxford in 1893. He was Bampton Lecturer in 1899, was made Hon. D.D. Aberdeen in 1905, and in 1906 was Paddock Lecturer at New York. In 1905-7 he was vicar of All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, London. In 1907-11 he was Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge, and since 1911 has been dean of St. Paul's. His works include: "Society in Rome under the Cæsars"; "Studies of English Mystics"; "Speculum Anime"; "Types of Christian Saintliness."
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JEAN n'jä-lō), an English poet and novelist; born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1820. Her first efforts in verse were published anonymously in 1850. A good deal of her poetry is of a devotional or religious cast. But she also published some powerful ballads, and of her minor pieces "The High-tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571," is probably both the finest and the best known. Of her larger poems, "A Story of Doom" (1867) has been the most successful. Among her novels may be specially mentioned "Off the Skelligs," a very fine work; "Fated to be Free" (1875); and "Sarah de Berenger" (1880). She died July 19, 1897.
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in'je-lo, Jean (1830-1897), an English poet and novelist. Miss Ingelow was born in the old town of Boston, Lincolnshire. Although she wrote from an early age reputation came only with the publication of a volume of poems in 1863. The more famous of these poems are High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, Songs of Seven, Supper at the Mill, and Divided. She published several other books, among them Stories Told to a Child, Mopsa, the Fairy, The Little Wonder Horn, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems. Off the Skelligs was her first novel of any length. Fated to Be Free is a sequel to it. It is said that her writings have been more popular in America than in her own country. As the voice of Mrs. Browning grew silent the songs of Miss Ingelow began, and had instant and merited popularity. They sprang up suddenly and tunefully as skylarks from the daisy-spangled, hawthorn-bordered meadows of old England, with a blitheness long unknown, and in their idyllic underflights moved with the ten-derest currents of human life.--Stedman.
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BERNHARD SEV- ERIN, (in'gä-man), a Danish poet and novelist; born May 28, 1789. A very prolific writer of the sentimental school. He was extremely successful with several selections of "Fairy-tales and Stories." But his best works were a series of historical novels, in which he took Walter Scott for his model-"Valdemar Seier" (1826), "Erik Menved's Childhood" (1828), "King Erik" (1833), and "Prince Otto of Denmark" (1835). The poems "Waldemar the Great and his Men" (1824), "Queen Margaret" (1836), and "Holger Danske" (1837) are based, like his novels, on incidents of Danish national history. He died Feb. 24, 1862.
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ROBERT GREEN, an American lawyer; born in Dresden, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1833; ; was admitted to the bar in 1854; soon became distinguished in the courts and in Democratic politics as an orator; recruited the 11th Illinois Cavalry in 1862, and entered the army as its colonel. On Nov. 28, 1862, while trying with a force of 600 men to intercept a Confederate raiding body he was captured by a force of 10,000 men, but was soon paroled and given command of a camp in St. Louis . He soon afterward resigned. After the war he became a Republican; was made attorney-general of Illinois in 1866 ; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876 and there nominated for president, ROBERT G. INGERSOLL James G. Blaine, whom he termed "the plumed knight." He was prominent in politics for several years , and had he not given strong expression to his views as an agnostic he would doubtless have been honored with high offices. He settled in New York city in 1882 and practiced law there till his death . His most famous lectures include " Some Mistakes of Moses"; "The Family"; "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child"; "The Gods"; and "Ghosts." His publications include "Lectures Complete"; "Prose, Poems and Selections"; and " Great Speeches." He died in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., July 21, 1899. a sect religious
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