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Acts of the Apostles

(Encyclopedia) Acts of the Apostles, book of the New Testament. It is the only 1st-century account of the expansion of Christianity in its earliest period. It was written in Greek anonymously as…

Reform Acts

(Encyclopedia) Reform Acts or Reform Bills, in British history, name given to three major measures that liberalized representation in Parliament in the 19th cent. Representation of the counties and…

adhesion and cohesion

(Encyclopedia) adhesion and cohesion, attractive forces between material bodies. A distinction is usually made between an adhesive force, which acts to hold two separate bodies together (or to stick…

Brewer's: Between

Between hay and grass. Neither one thing nor yet another; a hobbledehoy, neither a man nor yet a boy. Between cup and lip. (See Slip.) Between Scylla and Charybdis. Between two equal…

Between Brothers

FoxThursday 8:30–9:00 p.m.Cast: Kadeem Hardison, Dondre Whitfield, Kelly Perrine, Tommy Davidson and Rachel Crawford The Gordon brothers are both attractive and successful, but that's about…

Lycaonia

(Encyclopedia) LycaoniaLycaonialĭkˌāōˈnēə [key], ancient country of S Asia Minor (now in Turkey), between Galatia and Cilicia on the north and south and Phrygia and Cappadocia on the west and east.…

Aeneas, in the Bible

(Encyclopedia) AeneasAeneasēˈnēəs, ĭnēˈ– [key], palsied man whom Peter cured in the Acts of the Apostles.

Navigation Acts

(Encyclopedia) Navigation Acts, in English history, name given to certain parliamentary legislation, more properly called the British Acts of Trade. The acts were an outgrowth of mercantilism, and…

Intolerable Acts

(Encyclopedia) Intolerable Acts, name given by American patriots to five laws (including the Quebec Act) adopted by Parliament in 1774, which limited the political and geographical freedom of the…