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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Arsot

Britannica 11th

ARSOT, the name of a forest in France, in the immediate neighbourhood of Belfort. It has an area of about 1500 acres, is almost encircled by a small stream, the Eloie, and is about 1400 ft. above the sea. On the east it is continued by the forest of Denney, wh ...

Vol. 2, pp. 656-656 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Arcot

Britannica 11th

ARCOT, the name of a city and two districts of British India in the presidency of Madras. Arcot city is the principal town in the district of North Arcot. It occupies a very prominent place in the history of the British conquest of India, but it has now lost i

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Arson

Britannica 11th

ARSON (from Lat. ardere, to burn), a crime which has been described as the malicious and voluntary burning of the house of another (3 Co. Inst. 66). At common law in England it is an offence of the degree of felony. In the Roman civil law arson was punishable

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Art

Britannica 11th

ART, a word in its most extended and most popular sense meaning everything which we distinguish from Nature. Art and Nature are the two most comprehensive genera of which the human mind has formed the conception. Under the genus Nature, or the genus Art, we in

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Aorist

Britannica 11th

AORIST (from Gr. d6pioTos, indefinite), the name given in Greek grammar to certain past tenses of verbs (first aorist, second aorist).

Vol. 2, pp. 158-158 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 32.73
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