in popular parlance
61bishop — [OE] Bishop originally had no ecclesiastical connections; its Greek source, episkopos, at first meant simply ‘overseer’, from epi ‘around’ and skopein ‘look’ (antecedent of English scope, and related to spy). From the general sense, it came to be …
62Celsius — [19] The notion of a temperature scale based on 100 was developed by the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–44) (he originally had water boiling at zero and freezing at 100º, but this was later reversed). His name began to be used to… …
63hysteria — [19] Greek hustérā meant ‘womb’ (it is related to Latin uterus ‘womb’). The adjective derived from it was husterikós ‘suffering in the womb’. This passed into Latin as hystericus, which formed the basis of the modern Latin noun hysteria, a term… …
64foundationalism — The epistemological theory that noetic (belief) structures include two types of justified belief: (1) properly basic beliefs, which confer epistemic justification on other beliefs, but do not require it themselves, and (2) properly non basic… …
65Fifth Amendment — An amendment to the Constitution of the United States, contained in the Bill of Rights, which, in popular parlance and legal literature, is synonymous with the privilege against self incrimination. Quinn v United States, 349 US 155, 99 L Ed 964,… …
66bishop — [OE] Bishop originally had no ecclesiastical connections; its Greek source, episkopos, at first meant simply ‘overseer’, from epi ‘around’ and skopein ‘look’ (antecedent of English scope, and related to spy). From the general sense, it came to be …
67Celsius — [19] The notion of a temperature scale based on 100 was developed by the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–44) (he originally had water boiling at zero and freezing at 100º, but this was later reversed). His name began to be used to… …
68hysteria — [19] Greek hustérā meant ‘womb’ (it is related to Latin uterus ‘womb’). The adjective derived from it was husterikós ‘suffering in the womb’. This passed into Latin as hystericus, which formed the basis of the modern Latin noun hysteria, a term… …
69KINAH — (Heb. קִינָה; pl. קִינוֹת, kinot), poem expressing mourning, pain, and sorrow. One of the earliest poetic forms, it is also termed hesped (lamentation), from which developed, in the course of time, the customary prose eulogy over the dead (called …
70TALMUD — (Heb. תַּלְמוּד). The word Talmud means primarily study or learning and is employed in various senses. One refers to the opinions and teachings which disciples acquire from their predecessors in order to expound and explain them (Seder Tanna im… …
