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51Xenophon — Xenophontian /zen euh fon tee euhn/, Xenophontine /zen euh fon tuyn, tin/, adj. /zen euh feuhn, fon /, n. 434? 355? B.C., Greek historian and essayist. * * * born 431, Attica, Greece died shortly before 350 BC, Attica Greek historian. Born of a… …
52Giuseppe Giusti — • A poet and patriot; b. 1809, at Monsumano near Pescia, Italy; d. 31 March, 1850 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Giuseppe Giusti Giuseppe Giusti …
53Russian Language and Literature — • Russian is a Slav language belonging to the Indo European family Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Russian Language and Literature Russian Language and Literature …
54epænetic — adjective /ɛpiːˈnɛtɪk/ Encomiastic; ; ; .<ref name= OED /> The Epænetic comprehends the hymn, the epithalamium, the genethliacon, or what elſe tends to the praiſe or congratulation of divine, or on earth eminent perſons …
55Manuel Machado (poet and playwright) — Manuel Machado y Ruiz (29 August 1874 in Seville – 19 January 1947 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet and a prominent member of the Generation of 98. Manuel Machado was the son of Antonio Machado Alvarez, known folklorist Seville nicknamed Demófilo ,… …
56favorable — I (advantageous) adjective advisable, appropriate, auspicious, becoming, befitting, beneficial, commodus, conducive, convenient, desirable, encouraging, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitting, fortunate, full of promise, good, helpful, opportune,… …
57Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek… …
58appreciative — Synonyms and related words: acclamatory, accurate, acknowledging, admiring, alive to, appreciative of, apprised of, approbatory, awake to, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, beholden, cognizant of, commendatory, complimentary,… …
59complimentary — Synonyms and related words: acclamatory, admiring, adulatory, appreciative, approbatory, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, charitable, commendatory, congratulational, congratulatory, costless, courtierly, courtly, eleemosynary,… …
60etiquette — Synonyms and related words: amenities, approbatory, approving, behavior, bienseance, bon ton, civilities, civility, comity, commendatory, complimentary, conduct, conformity, consuetude, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism …