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  • 31decongestant — 1950, from DE (Cf. de ) + congestant (see CONGEST (Cf. congest)) …

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  • 32gestation — [16] Etymologically, gestation is the period during which unborn young is ‘carried’ inside the womb. Indeed, to begin with the word meant simply ‘carrying’ in English (‘Gestacion, that is to be carried of another thing, without any travail of the …

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  • 33register — [14] Register comes via Old French registre from late Latin regestum ‘list’. This was a noun use of the past participle of regerere ‘bring back’, hence ‘set down, record’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘back, again’ and gerere ‘bring …

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  • 34con|ge|ries — «kon JIHR eez, ee eez», noun singular. or plural. a collection; heap; mass: »The modern urban society…is itself a congeries of groups often more or less hostile to one another (Ogburn and Nimkoff). SYNONYM(S): aggregation. ╂[< Latin congeriēs… …

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  • 35congestiparous — congestiparous, a. Med. [f. L. congest us congest n.1 + parus producing + ous.] ‘Applied to remedies which produce congestion or the different forms of Contrafluxion.’ in Syd. Soc. Lex …

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  • 36Congeries — Con*ge ri*es, n. sing. & pl. [L., fr. congerere. See {Congest}.] A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 37congestion — noun see congest …

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  • 38congestive — adjective see congest …

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  • 40Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania — For other Pennsylvania townships of the same name, see Middletown Township, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 40°09′45″N 74°53′43″W / 40.1625°N 74.89528°W …

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