Genius: alternatives and connections

A sudden flash or play of light.

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Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed…

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The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.

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The act of scintillating.

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The quality of being creative.

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The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.

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Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice;…

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Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

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The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

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Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs.…

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A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

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One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

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The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous…

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To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one o…

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One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.

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To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

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A wise man; a sage.

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The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.

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That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…

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