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(ändr ´ä äp–pyä´n ) (KEY) , 1754–1817, Italian neoclassical painter and Italian court painter of Napoleon I, active in Lombardy. His frescoe...
( ky ´z t v´´) (KEY) [Lat.,=accusing], in grammar of some languages, such as Latin, the case typically meaning that the noun refers to the entity ...
in philosophy, the opposite of relative. The term has acquired numerous widely variant connotations in different philosophical systems. It means unlim...
(äb ´j ) (KEY) , city and federal capital territory (1991 est. pop. 378,700), central Nigeria. Plans to move the capital from Lagos were approved in...
1704–1754, English architect, called Wood of Bath. When he went (1727) to Bath from Yorkshire to begin his career as a road surveyor, the city was a...
( k l´d m ) (KEY) [Aram.,=field of blood], according to the Gospel of St. Matthew, the chief priests bought the potter’s field with Judas’ 30 pi...