memento mori
(en)
(noun) a reminder of mortality / (noun) death's-head
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To be aware of the central Wallace trope of memento mori is not to take up Yorick's skull
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To be aware of the central Wallace trope of memento mori is not to take up Yorick's skull
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nihil obstat
(en)
(Latin for "nothing hinders"; used in the Roman Catholic Church) a certification by an official censor that a book is not objectionable on doctrinal or moral grounds
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The Stonecipheco minion Neil Obstat Jr., meanwhile, is named for the phrase of papal censorship, nihil obstat ("nothing hinders"), in a corollary to legalistic control over language.
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The Stonecipheco minion Neil Obstat Jr., meanwhile, is named for the phrase of papal censorship, nihil obstat ("nothing hinders"), in a corollary to legalistic control over language.
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Fursichsein
(en)
German for "Being for oneself"; a concept used by Hegel?
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Hegel's all-important category of Fursichsein
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Hegel's all-important category of Fursichsein
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keller
(en)
basement
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defined to support a dubious assertion about a character named Keller
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defined to support a dubious assertion about a character named Keller
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bedesmen
(en)
religious figures in medieval Scotland who solicited donations on the promise of praying for their benefactors
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another dubious claim (Lenore Beadsman)
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another dubious claim (Lenore Beadsman)
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dyspepsia
(en)
(noun) indigestion; ill humor; disgruntlement
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Mark and D.L.'s dyspeptic traveling companion
describing Sternberg in Westward
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Mark and D.L.'s dyspeptic traveling companion
describing Sternberg in Westward
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beleaguered
(en)
besieged, troubled, beset with difficulties
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beleaguered American auto manufacturing in the process of being overtaken
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beleaguered American auto manufacturing in the process of being overtaken
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proleptic
(en)
(adj) anticipatory; a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection to their own argument and then immediately answers it; also called procatalepsis
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David Boyd has a conversion proleptic of Chris Fogle's
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David Boyd has a conversion proleptic of Chris Fogle's
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agape
(en)
(noun) a Greco-Christian term referring to "love: the highest form of love, charity", and "the love of God for man and of man for God
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not even the absolute love of agape (what the Divinity students examine)
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not even the absolute love of agape (what the Divinity students examine)
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concomitant
(en)
naturally accompanying or associated
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Between those two points, in concomitant developments around "value",
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Between those two points, in concomitant developments around "value",
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