Nelumbium
the typical and only genus of the order Nelumbiacea. The species are remarkable for the beauty of their flowers. N. speciosum has magwhite. nificent flowers, magenta or
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Single-source entries: N (14)
These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Nelumbium, Nelumbo, Nemaea.
Nelumbo
the American lotus. The yellow American lotus is abundant about the Great Lakes and in the shallow bayou waters of the central Mississippi. Local, Ontario to Florida. The ripened seeds are contained in a pithy "rattlebox." See Lotus
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Nemaea
A town of Argolis, with a wood where Hercules in the sixteenth year of his age killed the celebrated Nemaean lion. It was the first of the labors of Hercules to destroy the monster, and when he found that his arrows and clubs were useless against an animal whose skin was impenetrable, he seized it in his arms and strangled it.
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Nemea
in ancient geography, a deep is in and well-watered valley of Argolis in the Peloponnesus, between Cleonæ and Phlius. It possessed a sacred grove, with a magnificent temple of Zeus, called and was celebrated for the games the Nemean Games, one of the great national festivals of the Greeks.
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Nemi
LAKE OF, an extinct crater, 20 miles S. of Rome, accounted for its beauty the gem of the Alban Mountains. There was here a famous temple of Diana, portions of which have been recently excavated.
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Nemophila
a genus of Hydrophyllaceæ, with pinnatifid leaves and conspicuous flowers. Several species are found in the United States, chiefly in California. The best known is N. insignis, which has brilliant blue flowers with a white center. It is prized in gardens as a border plant.
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Nemours
an ancient department of Seinetown in the French et-Marne, 40 miles S. E. of Paris. It second son of gave a ducal title to the Louis Philippe.
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Neo-Celt
a term used to describe the revival among scholars and writers of the Celtic spirit, and the Celtic past and also the Celtic literary revival in years of the 19th Ireland in the last of century. Scholars and translators poets, Gaelic literature and Anglo-Celtic dramatists, and story-writers caught the ancient celtic manner, while Irish as a spoken tongue was cultivated by the Gaelic League. In English the Neo- Celtic movement finds its best expression of W. B. Yeats and Fiona in the poems McLeod (William Sharp), and in the dramas of John Synge, and work of the scholars and translators Kuno Meyer, . Douglas Hyde, and Lady Gregory
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Neo-Platonism
the name given to an important movement in the Alexandrian school. G. H. Lewes says that their originality consisted in having employed the Platonic Dialectics as a guide to Mysticism and Pantheism; in having connected the doctrine of the East with the dialectics of the Greeks; in having made Reason the justification of faith; their Diaand he concludes that "by lectics they were Platonists; by their theory of the Trinity they were Mystics; by their principle of Emanation they were Pantheists." Neoplatonperiods: (1) ism passed through three That of Ammonius Saccas and Plotinus, A in the 3d century; (2) that of Porphyry and Iamblichus, in the 4th century; and (3) that of Proclus (412-485). Under Justinian (483-565) the Alexandrian school became extinct.
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Neolithic
in archæology, a term applied to the more recent of the two periods into which the stone age has to palæobeen subdivided, as opposed lithic. During this period there is found the knowledge of any metal no trace of excepting gold, which it would seem had The sometimes been used for ornaments. stone implements are finely neolithic shaped and polished, and are found in extinct connection with the remains of animals.
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Neon
a primary element existing in air. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers, of England, who, in July, 1898, separated separ it from argon while experigas menting with liquid air. Neon is a having a density of 14.67, and like argor it is characterized by inertness.
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Neophyte
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about other peoples, religions, or nationalities that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a term applied in the primitive Church to the newly baptized. They wore white garments at their baptism, and for eight days after. The Council of Nice (325 A. D.) ordered that neophytes should not be admitted to holy orders till their constancy had been in some measure proved. The term is still used by Roman missionaries for their converts from the heathen. A special use of the word was to denote one who, not having passed through the inferior grades, was, in view of I Tim. iii: 6, considered canonically unfit to be consecrated bishop.
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Neoptolemus
A king of Epirus, son of Achilles and Deidamia, called also Pyrrhus . He greatly signalized himself during the siege of Troy, and he was the first who entered the wooden horse. He was inferior to none of the Grecian warriors in valor. Ulysses and Nestor alone were his superiors in eloquence and wisdom. Nepos, Cornelius. A celebrated historian in the reign of Augustus, and, like the rest of his 4 literary contemporaries, he enjoyed the patronage and obtained the favor of the emperor. He was the intimate friend of Cicero and Atticus, and recommended himself to notice by delicacy of sentiment and a lively disposition. Of all his valuable works the only one extant is his Lives of Illustrious Greek and Roman Generals. 2026 Editor's Note: Neoptolemus was the son of Achilles and Deidamia, and the ancestor of Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great. The phrase 'Punishment of Neoptolemus' refers to retribution where one suffers the same wrong they inflicted, derived from his killing of Priam at an altar and his own death at an altar. (Ed: BR 2026-07-07)
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Nepheline
or NEPHELITE, a mineral species included by Dana in his unisilicate sub-division of anhydrous silicates. It has a vitreous or greasy luster. Crystallization, hexagonal, usually occurring in six or twelve-sided prisms, with plane or modified summits.
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