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91Hieronymus Balbus — (also called Girolamo Balbi or Accellini) was a Renaissance Humanist, poet, diplomat, and Bishop of Gurk in Carinthia, b. about 1450 in Venice; d. there, probably 1535. He was a pupil of Julius Pomponius Laetus, the founder of the Roman Academy.… …
92D. Jeffrey Wright — Infobox Person bgcolour = name =Col. David J. Wright image size =164x247px caption =Photograph from Facebook residence =Caracas, Venezuela nationality =North American, USA USA ethnicity =Sicilian, English, Prussian citizenship =US Expat other… …
93disputatiously — See disputatious. * * * …
94factionalize — [fak′shənəl īz΄] vt., vi. factionalized, factionalizing to divide into factions factionalization n. * * * fac·tion·al·ize (făkʹshə nə līz ) tr.v. fac·tion·al·ized, fac·tion·al·iz·ing, fac·tion·al·iz·es To split (a group, for example) into… …
95agnosticism — /ag nos teuh siz euhm/, n. 1. the doctrine or belief of an agnostic. 2. an intellectual doctrine or attitude affirming the uncertainty of all claims to ultimate knowledge. [1870 75; AGNOSTIC + ISM] * * * Doctrine that one cannot know the… …
96argumentative — argumentatively, adv. argumentativeness, n. /ahr gyeuh men teuh tiv/, adj. 1. fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group. 2. of or characterized by argument;… …
97contentious — contentiously, adv. contentiousness, n. /keuhn ten sheuhs/, adj. 1. tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew. 2. causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy: contentious issues. 3. Law. pertaining to… …
98contradictious — contradictiously, adv. contradictiousness, n. /kon treuh dik sheuhs/, adj. 1. inclined to contradict; disputatious. 2. Archaic. self contradictory. [1595 1605; CONTRADICT + IOUS] * * * …
99controversial — controversialism, n. controversialist, n. controversially, adv. /kon treuh verr sheuhl/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of controversy; polemical: a controversial book. 2. subject to controversy; debatable: a controversial decision …
100education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …
