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10/12/2025

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RHEEBOC

The peele. [Written also reebok.]

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DITHEISM

The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods orof two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil;dualism.

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ICELAND SPAR

A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtainedin Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because ofits strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.

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ALP

A bullfinch. Rom. of R.

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SPINOSITY

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

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ASCRIPT

See Adscript. [Obs.]

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IDEALOGIC

Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.

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UNORDER

To countermand an order for. [R.]

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ODEUM

See Odeon.

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REHEARSAL

The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition;specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice,in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise. Chaucer.In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer. Hooker.Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal. Shak.Dress rehearsal (Theater), a private preparatory performance of adrama, opera, etc., in costume.

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ACETABULIFERA

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnishedwith cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus;the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

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SUCCURSAL

Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.[R.]Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursalchurches, its monasteries, and convents. Milman.