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28/11/2025

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WORD METHOD

A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken assingle ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic andalphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentencemethods.

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MANDMENT

Commandment. [Obs.]

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INTERNECTION

Intimate connection. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

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PLATYRHINI

A division of monkeys, including the American species, whichhave a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensiletail. See Monkey. [Written also Platyrrhini.]

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PREVENANCE

A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. "The law ofprevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence."Ward.

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EOPHYTE

A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of theSilurian age.

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REPASSAGE

The act of repassing; passage back. Hakluyt.

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SILENUS

See Wanderoo.

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OBSTETRICS

The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women inparturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.

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PYROCHLORE

A niobate of calcium, cerium, and other bases, occurringusually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and resinousluster; -- so called from its becoming grass-green on being subjectedto heat under the blowpipe.

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INTERMEMBRANOUS

Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.

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BALSAM

To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; torender balsamic.