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  • 71Matchell — Originating from the early personal name Michael, and recorded in many diminutive spellings such as Machel, Matchell, Matsell, and Machet, Madgett, Matchet, Matchett and possibly others, this is an surname of English and Scottish origins.… …

    Surnames reference

  • 72Matchitt — Originating from the early personal name Michael, and recorded in many diminutive spellings such as Machel, Matchell, Matsell, and Machet, Madgett, Matchet, Matchett and possibly others, this is an surname of English and Scottish origins.… …

    Surnames reference

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    Acronyms

  • 74Privy Council —    Originating in the thirteenth century as a small body of influential advisers to the monarch, today the Council is the formal machinery via which the monarch exercises their prerogative powers. Nominally extensive (the Council comprises the… …

    Glossary of UK Government and Politics

  • 75criminology, classical — Originating in eighteenth century philosophy, classicism views both criminality and the administration of criminal justice as premised upon principles of rationality, choice, responsibility, and the deterrent power of punishment. It is usually… …

    Dictionary of sociology

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    Acronyms von A bis Z

  • 77SADDUCEES —    originating in the second century B.C. They were a religious and political GROUP, which rejected such BELIEFS as the RESURRECTION, ANGELS and SPIRITS, that disappeared after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70. In the NEW TESTAMENT they are… …

    Concise dictionary of Religion

  • 78SHAKERS —    originating in a QUAKER REVIVAL meeting in 1847 a group of people distinguished by their physical shaking during WORSHIP. They came under the leadership of Mother ANN LEE who was recognized as a female CHRIST. She eventually emigrated to… …

    Concise dictionary of Religion

  • 79Malayalam —    Originating as a dialect of Tamil, it evolved into an independent language. The infusion of linguistic forms brought from overseas lands and centuries of political isolation from the Tamil re gion contributed greatly to its development as a… …

    Historical dictionary of Medieval India

  • 80cauligenous — originating on the stem of a plant Causation and Formation …

    Phrontistery dictionary