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  • 101painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present.       Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …

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  • 102Alms and Almsgiving — • Any material favour done to assist the needy, and prompted by charity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Alms and Almsgiving     Alms and Almsgiving      …

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  • 103The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist —     The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist     In this article we shall consider:     ♦ the fact of the Real Presence, which is, indeed, the central dogma;     ♦ the …

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  • 104Crown servant — In the United Kingdom, a Crown servant is an officer of HM Government employed under the Crown whose duties of employment are of a public nature and whose salaries are paid out of public funds.[1][2] The Official Secrets Act 1989 Section 12(1) of …

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  • 105temporary — I adjective acting, ad tempus, brief, changeable, deciduous, elusive, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, makeshift, momentary, monohemerous, nondurable, passing, perishable, provisional, shifting …

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  • 106ephemeral — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. short lived, fugitive, transient, transitory, fleeting, evanescent, momentary. See transientness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. transient, evanescent, fleeting; see evanescent , temporary . See… …

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  • 107fleeting — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. transient, transitory (see transientness). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. transient, transitory, brief, ephemeral, evanescent, short, flitting, flying, fugitive, passing, swift, meteoric, sudden,… …

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  • 108short-lived — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. transitory, impermanent, mortal, perishable, ephemeral, fugitive, evanescent; doomed. See transientness.Ant., longlived, permanent. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. brief, momentary, temporary; see… …

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  • 109temporal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. worldly, mundane, secular; civil, political, profane, unsacred; temporary, ephemeral, impermanent. See transientness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Transitory] Syn. temporary, transient, ephemeral; see …

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  • 110transition — 01. Refugees who come to this country receive aid from the government to help them during the [transition] to their new lives here. 02. She is in a [transition] house for women who have been abused by their spouses. 03. The [transition] to… …

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