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71evanescence — [ev΄ənes′əns] n. 〚ML evanescentia: see EVANESCENT〛 1. a gradual disappearance 2. a tendency to evanesce; evanescent quality; transitoriness * * * See evanesce. * * * …
72democracy — /di mok reuh see/, n., pl. democracies. 1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. 2. a state… …
73émigré — /em i gray /; Fr. /ay mee grdday /, n., pl. émigrés / grayz /; Fr. / grdday /. 1. an emigrant, esp. a person who flees from his or her native land because of political conditions. 2. a person who fled from France because of opposition to or fear… …
74ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… …
75iris-out — /uy ris owt /, n. Motion Pictures, Television. the gradual disappearance of an image or scene through a contracting circle. [1925 30] * * * …
76rhythm and blues (R&B) — Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords …
77animal learning — ▪ zoology Introduction the alternation of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn. That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that… …
78kolp'um — ▪ Korean social system (Korean: “bone rank”), Korean hereditary status system used to rank members of the official class of the Unified Silla Dynasty (668–935). The system originally began as a way of distinguishing the status and… …
79Premonstratensian Canons — • Religious order founded in 1120 by St. Norbert Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Premonstratensian Canons Premonstratensian Canons …
80Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem — Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem The military order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem originated in a leper hospital founded in the twelfth century by the crusaders of the Latin… …
