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  • 51Upper Rhine — • Ecclesiastical province; includes the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the suffragan Dioceses of Fulda, Mainz, Limburg, and Rottenburg Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Upper Rhine     Upper Rhine …

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  • 52The Church in China —     The Church in China     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church in China     Ancient Christians     The introduction of Christianity into China has been ascribed not only to the Apostle of India, St. Thomas, but also to St. Bartholomew. In the… …

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  • 53adverse — ad·verse /ad vərs, ad ˌvərs/ adj: opposed to one s interests: operating to one s detriment an adverse verdict Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. adverse …

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  • 54untoward — adjective /ˌʌn.tʊˈwɔːd,ʌnˈtɔɹd,ˌʌn.təˈwɔɹd/ a) Unfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous. b) Unruly, troublesome. Syn: adverse, disadvantageous, inconvenient …

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  • 55Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle — For other people named Duke of Newcastle, see Dukes of Newcastle. His Grace The Duke of Newcastle KG PC Prime Minister of Great Britain …

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  • 56Environmental scanning electron microscope — Wool fibers imaged in an ESEM by the use of two symmetrical plastic scintillating backscattered electron detectors …

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  • 57baleful — I adjective bad, baneful, calamitous, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, heinous, hurtful, ill omened, inauspicious, insalubrious, lethal, malefic, malevolent,… …

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  • 58baneful — I adjective bad, baleful, corrosive, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, disserviceable, evil, fatal, harmful, heinous, hostile, hurtful, insalubrious, injurious, lethal, malevolent,… …

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  • 59damaging — I adjective baneful, calamitous, calumnious, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, grievous, harmful, hurtful, incriminatory, inculpatory, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic …

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  • 60deleterious — I adjective adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, consuming, corroding, corrosive, damaging, deadly, disadvantageous, disserviceable, envenomed, fatal, foul, harmful, injurious to health, insalubrious, lethal, malefic, maleficent, malignant, miasmal,… …

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