These 21 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Purdue University, Purgatory, Purification.
a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Lafayette, Ind.; founded in 1874; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 187; students, 2,470; president, W. E. Stone, A. M., LL. D.
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in comparative religions, any place or state succeeding the moral purification. In Roman theology, a place in which souls who depart this present life, and serving as a means of life in the grace of God, suffer for a time, because they still need to be cleansed from venial, or have still to pay the temporal punishment due to mortal sins, the guilt and eternal punishment of which have been remitted.
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a Jewish rite. It was mainly the one through the performance of which an Israelite was readmitted to the privilege of religious communion, lost through uncleanness.
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the Festival of Lots, which was instituted by Mordecai (Esther ix: 27, x: 3), and is celebrated to this day by the Jews on the 14th and 15th of the month Adar (March), in commemoration of their wonderful deliverance from the destruction with which they were threatened by Haman.
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a color obtained by mixing pure red and pure blue. Tyrian purple was obtained at great cost from a shellfish,--a sort of Phoenician whelk known as a murex, each yielding but a drop of dye. In the day of Cicero a pound of fine wool dyed with Tyrian purple was valued at $175. From its excessive cost, purple was the emblem of rulers. The consular toga bore a purple border. The Roman emperor wore a purple toga. The term, "royal purple," is still current. Italy kept secret for a century a process of dyeing purple with a sort of lichen. Purple dye is now obtained inexpensively from aniline, a byproduct of coal tar .
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a preparation of madder, of a deep purple hue, approach ing to black; its tints, with white-lead, are of a purple color.
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in ornithology, the Adrea purpurea, about the same size as the common heron.
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in zoölogy, a genus of Buccinidæ; British species, abounds on the coast at low water, and is very destructive to mussel beds. Also, a peculiar unhealthy condition of the blood and tissues, evinced by purple spots, chiefly on the legs, due to unhealthy surroundings, want of proper food, intemperance, and other depressing causes. URSER, on shipboard, the officer whose duty is to keep the accounts of the ship to which he is attached. In mining, the paymaster or cashier of a mine, and the official to whom notices of transfer are sent for registration in the cost-book.
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in heraldry, an attendant on the heralds; one of the third and lowest order of heraldic officers. There are four pursuivants attached to the English College of Arms, styled Rouge Croix, Blue Mantle, Rouge Dragon, and Portcullis.
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or PURUS, a river of South America, which rising in the E. of Peru enters Brazil, and flowing N. E. after a course of 400 miles joins the Amazon about 100 miles above the confluence of the Madeira with the latter.
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formerly in England the exercise by officials called purveyors of the royal prerogative, involving a right of pre-emption, by which the king was authorized to buy provisions and necessaries for the use of his household at an appraised value, in preference to all his subjects.
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in physiology and pathology, the product of suppuration, a thick, viscid, yellow fluid.
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EDWARD BOUVERIE, an English theological writer, a leader of the Anglo-Catholic (Tractarian) party in the Established Church; born near Oxford in 1800. He was associated with Newman and others in the "British Critic," "Tracts for the Times," etc., and his conspicuousness from his social position (nephew of one earl and grandson of another, professor and canon of Christ Church), wealth and munificent charities, caused the Oxford Movement to be known as "Puseyism." He published: "The Holy Eucharist a Comfort to the Penitent" (1843), a sermon which resulted in his suspension for three years; two sermons on "The Entire Absolution of the Penitent" (1846), equally revolutionary. Of his larger works the most important are: "The Doctrine of the Real Presence" (1855); "The Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ the Doctrine of the English Church" (1857); "An Eirenicon." He died Sept. 16, 1882.
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The movable part of a pendant used for opening the case. The small movable projection on the side of a case which is pushed in when setting the hands. QUARE, DANIEL. Born in 1632 and died in 1724. He was the first to apply the concentric minute hand to watches and clocks and was the inventor of the repeating watch.
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ALEXANDER. See POUSHKIN.
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or PUKHTU, the language of the Afghans proper (see AFGHANIS- TAN).
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an old Italian fairy tale which came into the English probably through the French of Perrault. The cat is a clever animal who secures a fortune for his master, a young miller. A similar story is found in the Scandinavian and in several other languages.
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a pimple, a little blister. Also a vesicle containing pus.
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or PUTCHUK, the roots of Aplotaxus lappa (Saussurea Lappa, Calc, Exhib. Rep.). It is a tall composite plant, with purple florets, growing on the mountains of Cashmere. The root is collected in enormous quantities, and exported to China, to be used as incense. It is given in India in cough, asthma, fever, cholera, dyspepsia, etc. Its dried powder is the principal ingredient in an ointment for ulcers; it is also a hair wash.
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a town 2 miles from the W. boundary of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, opposite to the Bois de Boulogne. Many Parisians have fine villas here. There are manufactures of dyestuffs and chemicals, dyeing, and calico printing. Pop. about 35,000.
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A country house of Cicero near Puteoli, where he wrote his Quaestiones Academicae, and where the emperor Hadrian was buried. Puteolanus Sinus (Bay of Naples). A bay of the sea on the coast of Campania between the promontory Misenum and the promontory of Minerva, which was originally called Cumanus. 2026 Editor's Note: Pozzuoli, the location referenced as 'Puteoli' in this entry, was the primary Roman source of volcanic ash known as pozzolana . This material reacts with calcium hydroxide to form cementitious compounds, making it fundamental to Roman concrete construction. The term 'pozzolana' itself derives from this Campanian deposit, preserving the site's name in the vocabulary of materials science and architectural history. (Ed: BR 2026-06-11)
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