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28/06/2024

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VISIT

To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding,comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear beforeor judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.[God] hath visited and redeemed his people. Like i. 68.

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BELZEBUTH

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

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HUMANIZE

To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, tohumanize vaccine lymph.

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ADNOUN

An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

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INHIVE

To place in a hive; to hive.

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LAMARCKISM

The theory that structural variations, characteristic ofspecies and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the directinfluence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals,by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.

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KEELED

Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as,a keeled leaf.

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PAMPINIFORM

In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermaticand ovarian veins.

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SEMICOMPACT

Half compact; imperfectly indurated.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's lifewritten by one's self.

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DOUBLE DEALER

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.L'Estrange.

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ISOCHEIM

A line connecting places on the earth having the same meanwinter temperature. Cf. Isothere.