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  • 41lesya — /lesh yah/, n. Jainism. any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma. [ < Skt lesya light] * * * ▪ Indian philosophy&#8230; …

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  • 42lying — lying1 lyingly, adv. /luy ing/, n. 1. the telling of lies; untruthfulness. adj. 2. telling or containing lies; deliberately untruthful; mendacious; false: a lying report. [1175 1225; ME; see LIE1, ING1, ING2] Syn. 1. falsehood, falsity, mendacity …

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  • 43mendacity — /men das i tee/, n., pl. mendacities for 2. 1. the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie. 2. an instance of lying; falsehood. [1640 50; < LL mendacitas falsehood, equiv. to L mendaci (s. of mendax) given to lying, false +&#8230; …

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  • 44untruthful — untruthfully, adv. untruthfulness, n. /un troohth feuhl/, adj. not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality. [1325 75; ME; see UN 1, TRUTHFUL] * * * …

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  • 45Atavism — • Duchesne introduced the word to designate those cases in which species revert spontaneously to what are presumably long lost characters Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Atavism     Atavism …

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  • 46False Decretals — • A name given to certain apocryphal papal letters contained in a collection of canon laws composed about the middle of the ninth century by an author who uses the pseudonym of Isidore Mercator, in the opening preface to the collection Catholic&#8230; …

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  • 47Lying — • As defined by St. Thomas Aquinas, a statement at variance with the mind Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Lying     Lying     † …

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  • 48Science and the Church — • Dicsusses the relationship between the two subjects Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Science and the Church     Science and the Church      …

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  • 49St. Robert Bellarmine —     St. Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine     (Also, Bellarmino ).     A distinguished Jesuit theologian, writer, and Cardinal, born at Montepulciano, 4 October, 1542; died 17&#8230; …

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  • 50Theological Aspects of the Avesta —     The Theological Aspects of the Avesta     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Theological Aspects of the Avesta     I. GOD     The name of the Supreme God of the Avestic system is Ahura Mazda (in the Achaemenid royal inscriptions, Auramazda), which …

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