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• fore|lay — «fr LAY, fohr », transitive verb, laid, lay|ing. 1. to lay obstacles in the way of; plot against; hinder; frustrate: »I prevailed on his distraught widow to forelay and defeat the commercial passions and academic intrigues that were bound to come …   Useful english dictionary

• Fore Father — Infobox Television episode Title =Fore Father Series =Family Guy Caption =Stewie sees Mr. T as birds in his fever induced hallucination. Season =2 Episode =21 Airdate =August 1, 2000 Production =2ACX16 Writer =Bobby Bowman Director =Scott Wood… …   Wikipedia

• Gunpowder Plot — The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time, [Antonia Fraser, The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 , London, 2002, Author s Note, pg. xv. ISBN 0 75381 401 3] was a failed assassination attempt by a group …   Wikipedia

• foreplot —  ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ transitive verb Etymology: fore + plot : to work out in advance you can foreplot the course of the story easily enough …   Useful english dictionary

• forewarn — fore|warn [ fɔr wɔrn ] verb transitive to warn someone about a problem or dangerous situation that is likely to happen: The King was forewarned about the plot and escaped in secret. a. forewarned is forearmed used for saying that if you know… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

• performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …   Universalium

• France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …   Universalium

• USS Maine (ACR-1) — This article is about the ship sunk in Havana, 1898. For other ships of the same name, see USS Maine. The Maine redirects here. For the band, see The Maine (band). USS Maine entering Havana H …   Wikipedia

• ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism