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A French term for a light, quizzing mockery, or scoffing, specially on serious subjects, out of a cool, callous contempt for them.
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A French town 63 m. SE. of Brest, with a much admired cathedral; has sundry manufactures, and a fishing industry.
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A friend of Achilles, who accompanied him to the Trojan War, and whose death by the hand of Hector roused Achilles out of his sullenness, and provoked him to avenge the deed in the death of Hector.
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A fund established in 1704 for the augmentation of the incomes of the poorer clergy, the amount of which for distribution in 1890 was £176,896; it was the revenue from a tax on the Church prior to the Reformation, and which after that was appropriated by the Crown.
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A game similar to hockey, played on horseback with mallets, and devised by British officers in India in place of football.
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A German physicist and chemist, born at Hamburg; professor of Physics at Berlin; was the editor for more than half a century of the famous Annalen der Physik und Chimie, and the author of numerous papers (1796-1877).
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A German school in which languages, sciences, and arts are taught to qualify for apprenticeship in some special business or craft.
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A god of ancient Egypt, worshipped at Memphis; identified with Osiris and Socaris, and placed by the Egyptians at the head of the dynasty of the kings of Memphis.
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A great battlefield in Bengal, now swept away by changes in the course of the river, scarcely 100 m. N. of Calcutta; was the scene of Clive's victory in 1757 with 800 Europeans and 2200 unreliable native troops over Suraj-ud-Dowlah, the ruler of Bengal, which laid that province at the feet of Britain, and led to the foundation of the British Empire in India.
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A great circle parallel to the horizon, the centre of which is the centre of the earth.
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