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91Bartolome Esteban Murillo — Bartolomé Esteban Murillo † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Spanish painter; b. at Seville, 31 December, 1617; d. there 5 April, 1682. His family surname was Esteban; that of Murillo, which he assumed in accordance… …
92Giovanni Battista Giraldi — Giovanni Battista Giraldi † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giovanni Battista Giraldi (Surnamed CINTIO) Italian dramatist and novelist; b. at Ferrara, Italy, 1504; d. there, 1573. He studied philosophy and medicine in his native town.… …
93St. Catherine of Alexandria — St. Catherine of Alexandria † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Catherine of Alexandria A virgin and martyr whose feast is celebrated in the Latin Church and in the various Oriental churches on 25 November, and who for almost six centuries… …
94straphanger — noun A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap). The number of elevators has grown significantly since 1990, when the Americans With Disabilities Act set off a transformation of the aging… …
95pastorage — noun a) Home or offices of a pastor; comparable to a rectory The pastorage is in front of you, he says, but the clergyman is not at home, there is no one at the pastorage. (from The Story of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf, Little, Brown and… …
96necessitude — noun a) The state or characteristic of being in need; neediness. It had been of all things the most harassing and wearying a life of dreary necessitude a perpetual struggle with debt. b) A circumstance or event which is necessary or unavoidable,… …
97wearyingly — adverb In a wearying way. Syn: exhaustingly, tiresomely, tiringly …
98waiting game — noun A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor. Inasmuch as nothing was really and rationally to be hoped for but a long continuance of the siege and wearying… …
99pastorate — noun a) The role or responsibilities of a pastor. The old pastor found his pastorate wearying, and longed to retire. b) The period of service of a particular pastor to their congregation; their term of office. His pastorate had been marked by… …
100Lagos Colony — 1862–1906 …
