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• Terrae filius — Terra Ter ra, n. [It. & L. See {Terrace}.] The earth; earth. [1913 Webster] {Terra alba} [L., white earth] (Com.), a white amorphous earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, as magnesia …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Calvary — Not to be confused with cavalry (horse or armoured troops) or Calgary. For alternative meanings, see: Calvary (disambiguation), Mount Calvary (disambiguation), and Golgotha (disambiguation). Traditional site of Golgotha, within the Church of the …   Wikipedia

• Nicholas Amhurst — (16 October 1697 – 27 April 1742) was an English poet and political writer. Amhurst was born at Marden, Kent. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School, and at St John s College, Oxford. In 1719 he was expelled from the university, ostensibly… …   Wikipedia

• tripus — noun /ˈtɹaɪpəs/ The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium. Syn: bachelor of the stool, prævaricator, terræ filius,… …   Wiktionary

• ANTÆUS —    a mythical giant, a terræ filius or son of the earth, who was strong only when his foot was on the earth, lifted in air he became weak as water, a weakness which Hercules discovered to his discomfiture when wrestling with him. The fable has… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Amhurst, Nicholas — (1697 1742)    Satirical poet, political pamphleteer, and editor of the political journal The Craftsman, founded in 1726, to which he contributed under the pseudonym of Caleb D Anvers of Gray s Inn. While at St. John s College, Oxford, he… …   British and Irish poets

• fils — [ fis ] n. m. • XIe; lat. filius 1 ♦ Personne du sexe masculin, considérée par rapport à son père et à sa mère ou à l un des deux seulement. ⇒fam. fiston. C est le fils de M. X; c est son fils. Fils légitime, naturel. Fils adoptif. Avoir deux… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• BOHEMIA — Germaniae regio, cuius limites, secundum Auctorem Hist. Orbis Terr. ab Ortu Silesia et Moravia, ab Occasu Bavaria, a Meridie Austria, a Borea Misnia ac Lusatia, sunt: Figuram ovalem habet, et montibus ac silvis undique cincta, Amphitheatri… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

• SUEDIA — vide SUECIA, et SUETIA. Adde, quod Sueonum, Sueciae, et Suediae nomen Antiquos, boni ominis causâ, a iuvenili vigore et mascula virtute, sumpsisse censet Loccenius, quod Suen denotet iuvenem seu masculum: Ab exteris vero Suedos vocatos, quia… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

• PERSIA — quae Persis Ptol. Plin. l. 6. c. 25. et Melae, l. 1. c. 2. Farstan, et Farsistan incolis, teste Castaldô, Provincia Asiae notissima atque clarissima, inter Susianam ad occasum, et Carmaniam ad ortum; atque inter Parthiam ad Boream et sinum… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale