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111Glosses to the Bible — Christian writers have traditionally employed the word glossa or gloss, in connexion with glosses of Biblical texts. A gloss meant an explanation of a purely verbal difficulty of the text, to the exclusion of explanations required by doctrinal,… …
112ASCETICISM — ASCETICISM. Rigorous abstention from any form of self indulgence which is based on the belief that renunciation of the desires of the flesh and self mortification can bring man to a high spiritual state. Asceticism never occupied an important… …
113Thomas Pynchon — Infobox Writer name = Thomas Pynchon imagesize = 155px caption = Thomas Pynchon in 1957, one of the few photographs of him ever to be published pseudonym = birthdate = Birth date and age|1937|5|8|mf=y birthplace = Glen Cove, New York, USA… …
114Bharata Natyam — Indian dancer portraying a characteristic Nataraja pose Bharata Natyam or Chadhir Attam(Tamil: பரதநாட்டியம்), is a classical dance form from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, practiced predominantly in modern times by women. The dance is… …
115holy — holy, sacred, divine, spiritual, religious, blessed are comparable chiefly as epithets applied to persons or things associated with religion or worship and therefore either regarded with special reverence or veneration or thought of as having a… …
116Cosmographia (Bernard Silvestris) — Cosmographia (also known as De mundi universitate) is a Latin philosophical allegory, dealing with the creation of the universe, by the twelfth century author Bernard Silvestris. In form, it is a prosimetrum, in which passages of prose alternate… …
117rude — 1 Rude, rough, crude, raw, callow, green, uncouth mean deficient in the qualities that make for finish or for perfection in development or in use. Rude, as applied to men and their minds, suggests a comparatively low state of culture or a dearth… …
118roller — [rōl′ər] n. 1. a person or thing that rolls (in various senses) 2. any of various rolling cylinders or wheels; specif., a) a cylinder of metal, wood, etc. over which something is rolled for easier movement b) a cylinder on which something is… …
119Bharatanatyam — ( ta. பரதநாட்டியம்),is a classical dance form originating in Tamil Naducite book | last = International Tamil Language Foundation|title = The Handbook of Tamil Culture and Heritiage| year = 2000| publisher = International Tamil Language… …
120Syriac language — This article is about the Classical Syriac language. For contemporary Syriac dialects, see Northeastern Neo Aramaic. For other uses, see Syriac (disambiguation). Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ Leššānā Suryāyā …
