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91Literary or Profane Legends — Literary or Profane Legends † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Literary or Profane Legends In the period of national origins history and legend are inextricably mingled. In the course of oral transmission historic narrative necessarily becomes …
92Japanese poetry — When Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry, it was at its peak in the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their… …
93Christian Doctrine — Christian Doctrine † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Christian Doctrine Taken in the sense of the act of teaching and the knowledge imparted by teaching , this term is synonymous with CATECHESIS and CATECHISM. Didaskalia, didache, in the… …
94PRAYER — PRAYER, the offering of petition, confession, adoration or thanksgiving to God. In the Bible The concept of prayer is based on the conviction that God exists, hears, and answers (Ps. 65:3; cf. 115:3–7) – that He is a personal deity. In a sense it …
95French poetry — is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.French prosody and poeticsThe modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (like… …
96Primitive type — In computer science, primitive types as distinct from composite types are data types provided by a programming language as basic building blocks. Primitive types are also known as built in types or basic types .Depending on the language and its… …
97rondeau — /ron doh, ron doh /, n., pl. rondeaux / dohz, dohz /. 1. Pros. a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain. 2. a 13th century monophonic… …
98Linear-on-the-fly testing — Linear on the fly testing, often referred to as LOFT, is a method of delivering educational or professional examinations. Competing methods include traditional linear fixed form delivery and computerized adaptive testing. LOFT is a compromise… …
99Unicode-Block Tibetisch — Der Unicode Block Tibetan (Tibetisch) (0F00–0FFF) umfasst die Zeichen der tibetischen Schrift, mit der das Tibetische geschrieben wird. Der Unicode Block wurde in Unicode 1.0 im Bereich U+1000–U+105F kodiert, welcher heute vom Unicode Block… …
100Cnoidal wave — US Army bombers flying over near periodic swell in shallow water, close to the Panama coast (1933). The sharp crests and very flat troughs are characteristic for cnoidal waves. In fluid dynamics, a cnoidal wave is a nonlinear and exact periodic… …
