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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Athetosis
Britannica 11thATHETOSIS (Gr. Meraf, " without place "), the medical term applied to certain slow, purposeless, deliberate movements of the hands and feet. The fingers are separately flexed and extended, abducted and adducted in an entirely irregular way. The hands as a whol ...
Vol. 2, pp. 846-846
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Apotheosis
Britannica 11thAPOTHEOSIS (Gr. faofttovv, to make a god, to deify), literally deification. The term properly implies a clear polytheistic conception of gods in contrast with men, while it recognizes that some men cross the dividing line. It is characteristic of polytheism to
Vol. 2, pp. 206-207
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Thespis
Britannica 11thTHESPIS (6th cent. B.C.), Greek poet, of Icaria, in Attica, generally considered the inventor of tragedy, flourished in the time of the Peisistratidae. According to Diogenes Laertius (iii. 56), he introduced for the first time in the old dithyrambic choruses a
Vol. 26, pp. 840-840
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Antithesis
Britannica 11thANTITHESIS (the Greek for " setting opposite "), in rhetoric, the bringing out of a contrast in the meaning by an obvious contrast in the expression, as in the following: — " When there is need of silence, you speak, and when there is need of speech, you are d
Vol. 2, pp. 146-146
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Theodosius
Britannica 11thTHEODOSIUS, the name of three Roman emperors of the East.
Vol. 26, pp. 770-770
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