These 17 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Psalter, Psaltery, Psammetichus.
the Book of Psalms; also book containing a the Psalms separately printed, and with musical accompaniment adapted to each; also specifically, the version of the Psalms in the English Book of Common Prayer. In the Roman ritual, the daily office in the Breviary. Our Lady's Psalter is the Little Office.
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a stringed instrument of used music by the ancient Jews, the form of which is not known. That which is now used is in the form of a trapezium or triangle truncated at the top, having 13 strings of wire, mounted on two bridges at the sides, and is struck with a plectrum.
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a king of Egypt died about 617 b. who c. He was one of the 12 kings who reigned simultaneously in Egypt for 15 years after the expulsion of the Æthiopian dynasty; but being suspected by the other kings of aiming at sole sovereignty , he was driven into banishment. With the aid of some Greek mercenaries, however, he defeated the other kings in a battle fought at Momemphis, on the E. side of Lake Mareotis, after which he became the sole King of Egypt (671 or 670 B. c.), and the founder of a new dynasty.
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or IPSARA, an island of , Greece in the Grecian Archipelago, 7 miles N. W. of Scio, about 5½ miles in length, and as many in breadth.
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a mineral which has another replaced , or which appears in crystal forms which are foreign to its original formation.
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organs of locomotion and prehension in the lower Protozoa.
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in optics, an instru- , equally ducing ment an apparent reversion of the re- , how- lief of invented an object by Wheatstone, for proever, being to which it is directed, Book b others leaves the points which compose it. A false by the transposition of the distances of impression is thus conveyed to the eye, a globe becoming apparently concave and a hollow bod body assuming a convex form.
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the parrot family of scansorial birds, comprising tribe, a over 300 species, of which the genus Psittacus is the type.
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a city in bank of the Velikaya, 165 miles S. S. W. Russia, on the right from Petrograd au- . It considerable trade in flax, hemp, hides, is the center of a tallow and contains a large number of small leather goods factories. For nearly 300 years, during the Middle Ages, it was a free republic, but became subject to Moscow in 1509. During the World War, it was the center of much activity behind the lines , and after the disastrous Brest -Litovsk Peace Conference, in the winter of 1917-1918, was invaded by the Germans. Pop., in 1920, estimated at 30,300.
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in anatomy, two muscles psoas magnus and psoas parvus, con- ; the nected with the lumbar vertebræ. In entomology, a genus of beetles allied to Bostrichus.
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in genus of Psoralieæ. P. coryfolia is conbotany, the typical sidered by Indian doctors to be stomachic and deobstruent. An extract from it, prepared with oil or ointment, is used externally in leprosy. Camels are fond of P. plicata.
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A sensitive, one susceptible to psychic influences. A psychic is not necessarily a medium, unless he is sufficiently sensitive to be controlled by disembodied spirits. The term psychic includes the somnambule, the magnetic or mesmeric subject, anyone who is in any degree sensitive. According to one view, all men are in some measure susceptible to spiritual influences, and to that extent deserve the name of psychic. 66
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A spiritualistic term variously applied to an impalpable body which clothes the soul on the great dissolution," or to the soul itself. Sergeant Cox in his Mechanism of Man declares that the soul-quite distinct from mind, or intelligence, which is only a function of the brain-is composed of attenuated matter, and has the same form as the physical body, which it permeates in every part. From the soul radiates the psychic force, by means of which all the wonders of spiritualism are performed. Through its agency man becomes endowed with telekinetic and clairvoyant powers, and with its aid he can affect such natural forces as gravitation. When free of the body the soul can travel at a lightning speed, nor is it hindered by such material objects as stone walls or closed doors. The psychic body is also regarded as an intermediary between the physical body and the soul, a sort of envelope, more material than the soul itself, which encloses it at death. It is this envelope, the psychic body or nervengeist, which becomes visible at a materialisation by attracting to itself other and still more material particles. In time the psychic body decays just as did the physical, and leaves the soul free. During the trance the soul leaves the body, but the vital functions are continued by the psychic body.
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An instrument to facilitate automatic writing. It is composed of a rotating disc, on which the medium's finger-tips are placed, thus carrying an index over the alphabet. A similar contrivance was used by Professor Hare in his spiritualistic experiments.
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Writing produced without human contact, and supposed to be the work of the spirits.
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A class of persons in Ancient Italy who had the power of charming serpents. This name is given by other writers to the snake-charmers of Africa , and it is said that the serpents twist round the bodies of these Psylli without doing them any injury, although the reptiles have not had their fangs extracted or broken. In Kahira when a viper enters a house, the charmer is sent for, and he entices it out by the use of certain words. At other times music is used, and it is believed that the serpents understand what Purrah is said to them by the snake-charmers, so obedient are they. Purgatory of St. Patrick : (See Ireland .)
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a genus of Placodermi, having the cephalic shield finely grooved and composed of seven pieces. It had a rostrum in front, and its lateral angles were produced so as to form short cor- So far as is known, it is the most nua. ancient fish form, two species being known from the Upper Silurian, and six from the Lower Devonian of Orkney and Perthshire, Scotland.
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