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  • 91being — Everything real and nothing unreal belongs to the domain of Being. But there is little useful that can be said about everything that is real, especially from within the philosopher s study, so it is not apparent that there can be such a subject… …

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  • 92types, theory of — Russell s own reaction to his paradox of the class of all classes that are not members of themselves (see Russell s paradox ) was to suggest that the definition is ill formed because it involves the illegitimate notion of ‘all classes’. If the… …

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  • 93Auchtermuchty —    AUCHTERMUCHTY, a royal burgh, and a parish, in the district of Cupar, county of Fife, 9 miles (W. by S.) from Cupar; containing, with the village of Dunshelt, 3356 inhabitants, of whom 1340 are in the burgh. This place, of which the name, in… …

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  • 94unshaped — adjective having a vague, ill formed, or unfinished shape …

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  • 95crabbed — adjective 1) her crabbed handwriting Syn: cramped, ill formed, bad, illegible, unreadable, indecipherable, hieroglyphic; shaky, spidery 2) a crabbed old man See crabby …

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  • 96barbarisms — are words that are judged to be ill formed for various reasons, usually because they are derived from a mixture of Latin and Greek roots (e.g. television) or a mixture of Latin/Greek and English roots (e.g. breathalyser). The objection is… …

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  • 97crabbed — adj. 1 irritable or morose. 2 (of handwriting) ill formed and hard to decipher. 3 perverse or cross grained. 4 difficult to understand. Derivatives: crabbedly adv. crabbedness n. Etymology: ME f. CRAB(1), assoc. with CRAB(2) …

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  • 98syntactically — adverb with respect to syntax (Freq. 1) syntactically ill formed • Derived from adjective: ↑syntactic …

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  • 99dowieite — ēˌīt noun ( s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: John A. Dowie died 1907 Scottish religious leader in the United States + English ite : a member of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, a religious organization chiefly centered in… …

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  • 100unfeatured — “+ adjective 1. obsolete : having ill formed features : deformed 2. : lacking features : unvaried an unfeatured wilderness my highway is unfeatured air W.E.Channing …

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