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  • 71licit — legal, lawful, legitimate, licit 1. All four words share the basic meaning ‘conforming to the law’. Something is legal when it is authorized by the law of the land, legitimate when it conforms to custom or common justice, and lawful (a more old… …

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  • 72legitimate — legal, lawful, legitimate, licit 1. All four words share the basic meaning ‘conforming to the law’. Something is legal when it is authorized by the law of the land, legitimate when it conforms to custom or common justice, and lawful (a more old… …

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  • 73standard deviation — (sd)    a mathematical unit used to describe the spread or dispersion of a set of data. Each item in the data set has a deviation from the mean (the ordinary average) of the data. The standard deviation is computed by taking the squares of these… …

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  • 74normal — [nôr′məl] adj. [L normalis < norma, a rule: see NORM] 1. conforming with or constituting an accepted standard, model, or pattern; esp., corresponding to the median or average of a large group in type, appearance, achievement, function,… …

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  • 75conformist — n. & adj. n. 1 a person who conforms to an established practice; a conventional person. 2 Brit. a person who conforms to the practices of the Church of England. adj. (of a person) conforming to established practices; conventional. Derivatives:… …

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  • 76TEMPLE MOUNT — TEMPLE MOUNT, the trapezoid shaped (approximately rectangular) walled in area (approx. 140 dunams) in the southeastern corner of the Old City of Jerusalem. The four walls surrounding it (see western wall ) date – at least in their lower parts –… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 77Bromide — Bro mide, n. 1. (Chem.) A compound of bromine with a positive radical. [1913 Webster] 2. A person who is conventional and commonplace in his habits of thought and conversation. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] The bromide conforms to everything… …

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  • 78Conformer — Con*form er, n. One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 79Fashionable — Fash ion*a*ble, n. A person who conforms to the fashions; used chiefly in the plural. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 80Friars of the Strict Observance — Strict Strict, a. [Compar. {Stricter}; superl. {Strictest}.] [L. strictus, p. p. of stringere to draw or bind tight, to strain. See {Strain}, and cf. {Strait}, a.] 1. Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. Dryden.… …

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