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Humanities

of Humanity

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Bailiwick 76% connected

The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

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Discipline 76% connected

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, menta…

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Field 76% connected

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Subject 76% connected

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Chronology 76% connected

The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.

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Classicalism 76% connected

A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.

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Classicism 76% connected

A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.

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English 76% connected

Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

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History 76% connected

A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a descr…

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Linguistics 76% connected

The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

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Orientalism 76% connected

Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.

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Philology 76% connected

Criticism; grammatical learning.

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Philosophy 76% connected

Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes an…

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Quadrivium 76% connected

The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.

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Romanticism 76% connected

A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the produc…

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Sinology 76% connected

That branch of systemized knowledge which treats of the Chinese, their language, literature, etc.

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Trivium 76% connected

The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

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