ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

A folkloric note about caña quemada: until June 21 it is traditional to drink caña quemada with ruda macho ( a variant of common rue ), it is supposed that this mixture prevents the flu and other illnesses.

The United States federal government ( as opposed to the states ) has a variant on a common law system.

In the most common variant ( Double Six ) the values range from blank or 0 ( no pips ) to 6.

As the likelihood of having the barbarian move closer to Catan is very high, a variant in common usage is that the robber ( and with Seafarers, the pirate ) does not move until the first barbarian attack, nor can a knight move the robber before that point.

Hungarian, Slovenian, and Romanian fiddle players are often accompanied by a three-stringed variant of the viola known as the kontra, or as well as double bass, with cimbalom and clarinet being less standard yet still common additions to a band.

Probably the most common variant converts statistical performance into points that are compiled and totaled according to a roster selected by a manager that makes up a fantasy team.

The most common variant of insertion sort, which operates on arrays, can be described as follows:

The most common depiction of the loa Erzulie Dantor is derived from this variant of the sacred icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

The pronunciation is the more common one in the USA, and is the first-listed variant in various American dictionaries ( e. g., Merriam-Webster Collegiate, American Heritage ).

A common variant is the Pirani gauge, which uses a single platinum filament as both the heated element and RTD.

Motorola had intended the EC variant for embedded use, but embedded processors during the 68040's time did not need the power of the 68040, so EC variants of the 68020 and 68030 continued to be common in designs.

occam-π is the common name for the occam variant implemented by later versions of KRoC, the Kent Retargetable occam Compiler.

In one common variant, exactly thirteen hands are played — the final hand, in which each player is dealt 13 cards, is played without a trump suit ( or by cutting the deck to determine trump ).

These may be jokers, or they may be normal ranked and suited cards pressed into wild card duty (" deuces wild " is a common variant ).

There is generally no qualifier to win high, although one common variant is any pair / no pair, where a hand of at least a pair is required to win high and any hand with no pair is required to win low.

The most common type of structured P2P networks implement a distributed hash table ( DHT ), in which a variant of consistent hashing is used to assign ownership of each file to a particular peer, in a way analogous to a traditional hash table's assignment of each key to a particular array slot.

A variant of the draw is the time-limit draw, where the match does not have a winner by a specified time period ( a one-hour draw, which was once common, is known in wrestling circles as a " Broadway ").

Reich was used by itself in the common German variant of the Holy Roman Empire, ().

The variant spelling " smilie " is not as common, but the plural form " smilies " is commonly used.

A typical variant for European swords is the leaf-shaped blade, which was most common in North-West Europe at the end of the Bronze Age, in the British Isles and Ireland in particular.

A common variant is Klondike, which is included with the Windows operating system under the title Solitaire.

Since then, changes to the line length have been a relatively common variant, such that Stephen Burt has written: " sestinas, as the form exists today, not require expertise with inherited meter …".

In addition to the most common three axles variant, cargo trailers with only two or only one axle are in use, again usually with larger single wheels.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.

As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

What is the common man's complaint??

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

British common sense is proverbial.