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  • 41Utopia — • A term used to designate a visionary or an ideally perfect state of society first used by Sir Thomas More Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Utopia     Utopia      …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 42Walter of Winterburn — • An English Dominican, cardinal, orator, poet, philosopher, and theologian in the thirteenth century Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Walter of Winterburn     Walter of Winterburn …

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  • 43pedigree — ped•i•gree [[t]ˈpɛd ɪˌgri[/t]] n. 1) an ancestral line; lineage; ancestry 2) a genealogical record, esp. of a purebred animal 3) distinguished or pure ancestry 4) derivation; history 5) having established purebred ancestry: a pedigree collie[/ex] …

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  • 44merit — [mer′it] n. [OFr merite < L meritum < meritus, pp. of merere, to deserve, earn, akin to mereri, to serve for hire < IE base * (s)mer , to remember, care (hence provide for, allot a share to) > MOURN, L memor, mora, Gr meros, a part,… …

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  • 45Tammany — ☆ Tammany [tam′ə nē ] n. [after Tamanen(d), a 17th c. Delaware chief renowned for his superior qualities: meaning of his name unknown] a powerful Democratic political organization of New York City, incorporated in 1789 and historically often… …

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  • 46shame — n. & v. n. 1 a feeling of distress or humiliation caused by consciousness of the guilt or folly of oneself or an associate. 2 a capacity for experiencing this feeling, esp. as imposing a restraint on behaviour (has no sense of shame). 3 a state… …

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  • 47new blood — noun : an agent that is expected to convey vitality or superior qualities to or renew them in something (as a natural strain or an organization) as retirements provide openings for new blood in the directorate * * * new blood noun 1. (a person… …

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  • 48LEVI ISAAC BEN MEIR OF BERDICHEV — (c. 1740–1810), ḥasidic ḥaddik and rabbi; one of the most famous personalities in the third generation of the ḥasidic movement. Levi   Isaac was born into a distinguished rabbinic family and his father was rabbi in Hoshakov (Galicia). After… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 49philosophy, Western — Introduction       history of Western philosophy from its development among the ancient Greeks to the present.       This article has three basic purposes: (1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West, (2) to relate… …

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  • 50British moralists of the eighteenth century: Shaftesbury, Butler and Price — David McNaughton In this chapter I discuss the moral theories of three influential writers: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713); Joseph Butler (1692–1752) and Richard Price (1723–91). All three wrote extensively on issues …

    History of philosophy