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  • [usu. as adj. ] ( stultifying) cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, esp. as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine : the mentally stultifying
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  • ...which one longs to reach; an ultimate or idealized destination or aim; an (esp. newly identified) object of personal ambition or desire. Usu. with precedi
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  • ...://parapsych.org/glossary_e_k.html#e Glossary of Parapsychological terms - ESP], [[Parapsychological Association]], Retrieved [[December 19]], [[2006]]</r ...ist as a paranormal power.[https://www.skepdic.com/esp.html Skepdic.com on ESP]
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  • ...ssession or [[power]] of another who has or is held to have a claim to it; esp. (Mil., etc.) of combatants, a town, territory, etc. to an enemy or a super
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  • :3. a. The action of keeping from failing, exhaustion, or perishing; esp. the supplying of a living [[thing]] with what is [[necessary]] for subsist
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  • :b. Anat. and Zool. A place from which a [[structure]], esp. a muscle or nerve, arises, or at which it is attached; spec. the more fixe
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  • ...s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS1 GS1] has ratified the EPC network standards (esp. the EPC information services [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCIS EPCIS] s
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  • :b. Sc. [[Law]]. Release from a judicial penalty, esp. from a sentence of outlawry. ...y [[Physics]]. The gradual return of a [[system]] towards [[equilibrium]]; esp. the reduction of [[stress]] caused by gradual plastic deformation in [[mat
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  • *3. An image, effigy, or figure of a person or thing; esp. a [[Sculpture|statue]]. Obs.
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  • *4. A sect of separatists or [[dissent]]ers from the Church; esp. in the 17th cent., the body of Protestant nonconformists [[collective]]ly.
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  • :e. A [[work]], etc., supplying [[information]] or [[evidence]] (esp. of an original or primary character) as to some [[fact]], event, or series
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  • ...eles alleles] or [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomes chromosomes], esp. as occurs at [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis meiosis] in the forma
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  • :1. The womb; the uterus of a mammal. Also (later esp. of an oviparous animal): the ovaries and oviducts, or the ovary alone. Now :3. a. An embedding or enclosing mass; esp. the rock material in which a metal, fossil, gem, etc., is embedded. Cf. GA
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  • ...sical]] or [[chemical]] properties, into which a mixture may be separated, esp. by physical [[method]]s.
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  • ...ng, or passing [[judgement]] upon the qualities or [[merit]]s of anything; esp. the passing of unfavourable judgement; fault-finding, censure. ...[text]], [[character]], composition, and [[origin]] of literary documents, esp. those of the Old and New Testaments. textual criticism: that whose object
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  • *1. An inhabitant of a [[city]] or (often) of a town; esp. one possessing civic rights and privileges, a burgess or freeman of a city
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  • *2. a. A digest or shortened version of a longer [[text]], treatise, etc., esp. produced by omitting the less important passages of the [[original]]; an [
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  • *8. a. One who testifies for Christ or the [[Christian]] [[faith]], esp. by death; a martyr. Obs. exc. as literal rendering of Gr. MARTYR.
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  • :b. esp. That which is taught or laid down as true concerning a particular subject
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  • ...ent, of [[Archaeology|archaeological]] or [[History|historical]] interest, esp. such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
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