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Carpocrates

(Encyclopedia) CarpocratesCarpocrateskärpŏkˈrətēz [key], fl. c.130–c.150, Alexandrian philosopher, founder with his son Epiphanes of a Hellenistic sect, notoriously licentious, related to Gnosticism…

cryolite

(Encyclopedia) cryolite or kryolitecryoliteboth: krīˈəlītˌ [key] [Gr.,=frost stone], mineral usually pure white or colorless but sometimes tinted in shades of pink, brown, or even black and having a…

Cymbeline

(Encyclopedia) CymbelineCymbelinesĭmˈbəlēn [key] or CunobelinusCymbelineky&oomacr;ˌnōbĭlīˈnəs [key], d. c.a.d. 40, British king. His conquest of the Trinovantes (of Essex) reportedly made him the…

design

(Encyclopedia) design, plan or arrangement of line, form, mass, color, and space in a pattern. A design may be created to serve a functional purpose as in architecture and in industrial designs or…

essence

(Encyclopedia) essence, in philosophy, the nature of a thing. Aristotle maintained that there is a distinction between the form of a thing—its intelligible, verbally formulable character—and the…

Horrocks, Jeremiah

(Encyclopedia) Horrocks or Horrox, JeremiahHorrocks or Horrox, Jeremiahboth: hŏrˈəks [key], 1618?–1641, English astronomer. He made the first observation of the transit of Venus. His Venus in sole…

Loricifera

(Encyclopedia) LoriciferaLoriciferalôrˌĭsĭfˈərə [key], phylum of microscopic animals discovered in 1974. They have spiny heads and unsegmented bodies encased in a vase-shaped anterior that can…

nastic movement

(Encyclopedia) nastic movement, in botany, the movement of plant parts in response either to certain external stimuli or to internal growth stimuli. Nastic movements, which are generally slow, can be…

Quay, Matthew Stanley

(Encyclopedia) Quay, Matthew StanleyQuay, Matthew Stanleykwā [key], 1833–1904, American political leader, b. Dillsburg, Pa. He studied law in Pittsburgh and was admitted (1854) to the bar. He fought…