Imaginative+faculty

  • 11Imagination — • The faculty of representing to oneself sensible objects independently of an actual impression of those objects on our senses Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Imagination     Imagination …

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  • 12Al-Farabi — Muslim scholar Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Fārābī[1] Title The Second Teacher[2] …

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  • 13SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, JEWISH — Fantasy is a genre of literature in which realistic narratives are disrupted by unnatural or unexplainable events. The term Science Fiction (SF) emerged during the 1930s as a catchall descriptor for a publishing category with roots traceable to… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 14DREAMS — In the Bible The biblical view of dreams agrees substantially with that held by almost all ancient peoples. Dreams are visions of things actually transpiring on an ultramundane plane, where persons are not bound to bodies or events to specific… …

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  • 15fantasy — /fan teuh see, zee/, n., pl. fantasies, v., fantasied, fantasying. n. 1. imagination, esp. when extravagant and unrestrained. 2. the forming of mental images, esp. wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing. 3. a mental image, esp.… …

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  • 16fantasy — fan•ta•sy or phantasy [[t]ˈfæn tə si, zi[/t]] n. pl. sies, 1) imagination, esp. when extravagant and unrestrained 2) the forming of mental images, esp. wondrous or strange fancies; imaginative conceptualizing 3) psl prs the succession of mental… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 17FRANK, JACOB, AND THE FRANKISTS — Jacob Frank (1726–1791) was the founder of a Jewish sect named after him which comprised the last stage in the development of the Shabbatean movement. He was born Jacob b. Judah Leib in Korolowka (Korolevo), a small town in Podolia. His family… …

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  • 18Akhlaq — ( ar. أخلاق) is an Arabic term referring to the practice of virtue, morality and manners in Islamic theology and falsafah (philosophy). It is most commonly translated in English dictionaries as; disposition, nature, temper, ethics, morals or… …

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  • 19imagination — n. 1. Conception (united with the faculty of recombining ideas so as to form a new creation), invention, ideality, creative power, plastic power, fancy, fantasy. 2. Imaginative faculty, faculty of original conception, faculty of invention,… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 20ADAM — (אָדָם), the first man and progenitor of the human race. The Documentary Hypothesis distinguishes two conflicting stories about the making of man in Scripture (for a contrary view, see U. Cassuto, From Adam to Noah, pp. 71 ff.). In the first… …

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