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  • 1prevent — verb ADVERB ▪ effectively ▪ This new legislation effectively prevents us from trading. ▪ reliably, successfully ▪ a study to determine whether the brace can reliably prevent knee injuries ▪ …

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  • 2prevent — preventable, preventible, adj. preventabilty, n. preventingly, adv. /pri vent /, v.t. 1. to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed. 2. to hinder or stop from doing something: There is nothing to prevent us from… …

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  • 3prevent — pre•vent [[t]prɪˈvɛnt[/t]] v. t. 1) to keep from occurring; stop: to prevent illness[/ex] 2) to stop from doing something: There is nothing to prevent us from going[/ex] 3) archaic a) to act ahead of; forestall b) to precede c) to anticipate 4)… …

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  • 4prevent — /prəˈvɛnt / (say pruh vent) verb (t) 1. to keep from occurring; hinder. 2. to hinder (a person, etc.), as from doing something: there is nothing to prevent us from going. 3. Rare to cut off beforehand or debar (a person, etc.), as from something …

  • 5Nothing Left to Do But Cry — Non ci resta che piangere The original film poster Directed by Roberto Benigni Massimo Troisi …

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  • 6To Say Nothing of the Dog — infobox Book | name = To Say Nothing of the Dog title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover) author = Connie Willis cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science fiction Comedy… …

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  • 7metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …

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  • 8Thomism — St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 1274), the eponym of Thomism. Picture by Fra Angelico (c. 1395 1455) …

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  • 9Hypnotism — • The nervous sleep, induced by artificial and external means, which has been made the subject of experiment and methodical study by men of science, physicians or physiologists Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Hypnotism     Hypn …

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  • 10Obligation — • Defined in the Institutes of Justinian as a legal bond which by a legal necessity binds us to do something according to the laws of our State Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Obligation     Obligation …

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