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21/04/2026

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CONGRESSION

A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in adispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. [R.] Jer.Taylor.

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DISCOPHORA

A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of thelarge disklike species.-- Dis*coph"o*rous, a.

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SICAMORE

See Sycamore.

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HETEROGENESIS

Spontaneous generation, so called.

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PRESERVATORY

Preservative. Bp. Hall.

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DISCOMMISSION

To deprive of a commission or trust. [R.] Laud.

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FOXHOUND

One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.

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CHARIVARI

A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tinhorns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.

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RENOVATION

The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovatedor renewed. Thomson.There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation ofthe world. Rabbler.

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CEROMANCY

Divination by dropping melted wax in water.

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EXSCIND

To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.Barrow.The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by thatAssembly. Am. Cyc.

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SARCODE

A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous materialforming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.