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Bishop of Beauvais, infamous for the iniquitous part he played in the trial and condemnation of Joan of Arc; d. 1443.
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A preliminary private meeting to arrange and agree on some measure or course to propose at a general meeting of a political party.
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A narrow mountain gorge in Samnium, in which, during the second Samnite war, a Roman army was entrapped and caught by the Samnites, who obliged them to pass under the yoke in token of subjugation, 321 B.C.
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A membrane covering the head of some children at birth, to which a magical virtue was at one time ascribed, and which, on that account, was rated high and sold often at a high price.
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The philosophic name for the nature of the relation between cause and effect, in regard to which there has been much diversity of opinion among philosophers.
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A fashionable watering-place in the dep. of the Hautes-Pyrénées, 3250 ft. above the sea, with sulphurous springs of very ancient repute, 25 in number, and of varying temperature.
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The royalist partisans of Charles I. in England in opposition to the parliamentary party, or the Roundheads, as they were called.
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Inland county S. of Ulster, Ireland, with a poor soil; has minerals and mineral springs.
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The surname of the Devonshire ducal family, traceable back to the 14th century.
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