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  • 41Zappa, Frank — orig. Francis Vincent Zappa born Dec. 21, 1940, Baltimore, Md., U.S. died Dec. 4, 1993, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. rock musician and composer. Zappa grew up in California and taught himself drums and guitar. He wrote film scores in the early 1960s …

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  • 42Humanism — • The name given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, which aimed at basing every branch of learning on the literature and culture of classical antiquity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin …

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  • 43Boniface VIII —     Pope Boniface VIII     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Boniface VIII     (BENEDETTO GAETANO)     Born at Anagni about 1235; died at Rome, 11 October, 1303. He was the son of Loffred, a descendant of a noble family originally Spanish, but long… …

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  • 44Pope Boniface VIII —     Pope Boniface VIII     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope Boniface VIII     (BENEDETTO GAETANO)     Born at Anagni about 1235; died at Rome, 11 October, 1303. He was the son of Loffred, a descendant of a noble family originally Spanish, but long… …

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  • 45remit — 1. verb /ɹɪˈmɪt,ɹiˈmɪt/ a) To forgive, pardon Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity [...], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride. b) To give up, stop succumbing to (a… …

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  • 46fatuously — adverb /ˈfæt.ju.əs.li,ˈfætʃ.u.əs.li/ With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically. Will they, like the fellows, judiciously bear a hand in sweeping the stable, or will they fatuously wait to be themselves swept with a besom of… …

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  • 47fatuous — adjective /ˈfæt.ju.əs,ˈfætʃ.u.əs/ Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in ones foolishness. To compare the intelligence levels of men and women is itself fatuous. Syn: childish, imbecilic, inane, insipid, puerile …

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  • 48intend — verb /ɪnˈtɛnd/ a) To strain; make tense. Dotage, fatuity, or folly [...] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others [...]. b) To apply with energy. Syn: mean, foremind …

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  • 49irrationality — noun a) The quality or state of being irrational; want of the faculty or the quality of reason; fatuity. b) Something which is irrational or brought forth by irrational action, judgement, idea or thought …

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  • 50ineptitude — I noun fatuity, futility, impotence, impropriety, impuissance, inability, inadequacy, inanity, inaptitude, inappropriateness, incapacity, incompetence, inefficacy, inefficiency, inutility, stupidity, unfitness, uselessness, worthlessness… …

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