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  • 11Hexapla — • Article on Origen s compilation of six ancient versions of the Bible in parallel columns, his purpose and the principles that guided his work Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Hexapla     Hexapla …

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  • 12Raffaele Garrucci —     Raffaele Garrucci     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Raffaele Garrucci     A historian of Christian art, b. at Naples, 22 January, 1812; d. at Rome, 5 May, 1885. He belonged to a wealthy family, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of fifteen… …

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  • 13Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire — 1898 reprint title page Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire was a poetry collection published anonymously by Percy Bysshe Shelley in September, 1810 by C. and W. Phillips in Worthing and sold by publisher John Joseph Stockdale. The work was… …

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  • 14Cowie —    COWIE, a village, in the parish of Fetteresso, county of Kincardine, 1 mile (N.) from Stonehaven; containing 174 inhabitants. This village is situated at the mouth of the river Cowie, which falls into a bay of that name, forming a small and… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 15Dumbarton —    DUMBARTON, a royal burgh, the county town, and a parish, in the county of Dumbarton, 15 miles (N. W.) from Glasgow, and 58 (W. by S.) from Edinburgh; containing 3828 inhabitants, of whom 3782 are in the burgh. This place derives its name,… …

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  • 16Dunino —    DUNINO, a parish, in the district of St. Andrew s, county of Fife, 4 miles (S. E.) from St. Andrew s; containing, with the district of Kingsmuir, 471 inhabitants. This place derives its name, occasionally corrupted into Denino, and signifying… …

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  • 17Fordoun —    FORDOUN, a parish, in the county of Kincardine, 11 miles (W. S.W.) from Stonehaven; containing, with the village of Auchinblae, 2342 inhabitants, of whom 34 are in the Kirktown. This place, which is of remote antiquity, is supposed to have… …

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  • 18apocryphal — a. Unauthentic, legendary, uncanonical, of doubtful authority, fictitious, false, equivocal, dubious, spurious …

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  • 19uncanonical — a. Unauthentic, legendary, apocryphal, of doubtful authority …

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  • 20Hooker, Richard — (1554? 1600)    Theologian, b. near Exeter, of a family the original name of which was Vowell. His ability and gentleness as a schoolboy recommended him to the notice of Bishop Jewel, who sent him to Corpus Christi Coll., Oxf., where he graduated …

    Short biographical dictionary of English literature