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  • 122Pennsylvania — • One of the thirteen original United States of America Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Pennsylvania     Pennsylvania     † …

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  • 123Church Music —     Ecclesiastical Music     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Music     By this term is meant the music which, by order or with the approbation of ecclesiastical authority, is employed in connexion with Divine service to promote the… …

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  • 124profane — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, Philistine, Rabelaisian, abuse, abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, bad, bawdy, befoul, blasphemous, blue, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal, carnal minded, coarse, comminatory, commit sacrilege,… …

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  • 125sophisticated — Synonyms and related words: adult, advanced, blase, bored, braw, brittle, byzantine, chic, chichi, civilized, classy, clothes conscious, complex, complicated, cool, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, cultivated, cultured, cynical, daedal, dainty, dapper …

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  • 126materialistic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. material, worldly; pleasure seeking, hedonistic, sybaritic, epicurean; greedy, avaricious, mercenary. See irreligion, pleasure, gluttony. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. mundane, carnal, earthly minded …

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  • 127HIRSCH, SAMSON (Ben) RAPHAEL — (1808–1888), rabbi and writer; leader and foremost exponent of orthodoxy in Germany in the 19th century. Born in Hamburg, Hirsch studied Talmud with his grandfather Mendel Frankfurter there. His education was influenced by the enlightened… …

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  • 128ISLAM — The word conveys the sense of total and exclusive submission to Allah and is the name of the religion enunciated by the Prophet muhammad in the city of Mecca at the beginning of the seventh century C.E. An adherent of it is called a Muslim, a… …

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