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The abbreviation " IQ " comes from the German term Intelligenz-Quotient, originally coined by psychologist William Stern.
For example, he said " I cannot get over the difficulty of the wine which is kept in the cellar for three or four years while constantly increasing in exchange value, or that of the oak tree, which perhaps originally had not 2 s. expended on it in the way of labour, and yet comes to be worth £ 100.
The word eucharist originally comes from the Greek word for thanksgiving.
The word " palimpsest " comes through Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος ( palímpsestos, “ scratched or scraped again ”) originally compounded from πάλιν ( palin, “ again ”) and ψάω ( psao, “ I scrape ”) literally meaning “ scraped clean and used again ”.
The English word pearl comes from the French perle, originally from the Latin perna meaning leg, after the ham-or mutton leg-shaped bivalve.
It is the business of the pope to look after the interests of the Roman empire, since the empire derives its origin and its final authority from the papacy ; its origin, because it was originally transferred from Greece by and for the sake of the papacy ... its final authority, because the emperor is raised to his position by the pope who blesses him, crowns him and invests him with the empire .... Therefore, since three persons have lately been elected king by different parties, namely the youth son of Henry VI, Philip Hohenstaufen, brother of Henry VI, and Otto Brunswick, of the Welf family, so also three things must be taken into account in regard to each one, namely: the legality, the suitability and the expediency of his election ...... Far be it from us that we should defer to man rather than to God, or that we should fear the countenance of the powerful .... On the foregoing grounds, then, we decide that the youth should not at present be given the empire ; we utterly reject Philip for his manifest unfitness and we order his usurpation to be resisted by all .... since Otto is not only himself devoted to the church, but comes from devout ancestors on both sides ..... therefore we decree that he ought to be accepted and supported as king, and ought to be given the crown of empire, after the rights of the Roman church have been secured.
It originally comes from the phrase " Three quarks for Muster Mark " in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
The name " Quebec " comes from a Mi ' kmaq word k ' webeq meaning " where the waters get narrow " and originally referred to the area around Quebec City, where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap.
Other proposals are that it could have come from the Tamil name for fennel, soambu, where it is a regular ingredient in cooking, or that it comes from " sambuq ", a type of Arabic ship which may originally have been used to import the drink and may hence have given it its name.
The English word " tradition " comes from the Latin traditio, the noun from the verb traderere or tradere ( to transmit, to hand over, to give for safekeeping ); it was originally used in Roman law to refer to the concept of legal transfers and inheritance.
" Terrorism " comes from the French word terrorisme, and originally referred specifically to state terrorism as practiced by the French government during the Reign of terror.
The test of fidelity is previously recorded in French ( a fabliau ) and Latin ( Lidia, an elegiac comedy ), but comes originally from India or Persia.
Another reason is that the vast majority of the written sources from Scandinavia comes from Iceland, a nation originally settled by Norwegian colonists.
The name wombat comes from the now nearly extinct Darug language spoken by the Aboriginal Darug people who originally inhabited the Sydney area.
Each Risk game comes with a number of differently-colored tokens denoting armies ( originally, one set each of black, blue, green, pink, red and yellow ).
The name of the county comes from the city of Derry, which originally in Irish was known as Doire meaning oak.
In the episode Pendragon of the Gargoyles second season originally airing in 1996, King Arthur comes to London and encounters the Stone of Destiny at Westminster Abbey.
The word " parachute " comes from the French prefix paracete, originally from the Greek, meaning to protect against, and chute, the French word for " fall ", and it was originally coined, as a hybrid word which meant literally " that which protects against a fall ", by the French aeronaut François Blanchard ( 1753 – 1809 ) in 1785.
The word plebiscite comes from the Latin plebiscita, which originally meant a decree of the Concilium Plebis, the popular assembly of the Roman Republic.
The word fey, originally meaning " fated to die " or " having forebodings of death " ( hence " visionary ", " mad ", and various other derived meanings ) is completely unrelated, being from Old English fæge, Proto-Germanic * faigja-and Proto-Indo-European * poikyo -, whereas Latin fata comes from the Indo-European root * bhã-" speak ".
The name Arnhem comes from Arneym, much earlier Arentheem, and originally derived from Latin Arenacum.
Bandar, comes from Persian بندر via Indian languages and originally means " port " or " haven ".
Their name comes from the Spanish word cimarrones, which originally referred to a domestic animal that had reverted to the wild.

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As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.
While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.
Aubrey's mention of it ( 2:67, and Bodleian MS Aubr. 8, F. 63 ) comes from this prolusion, through Christopher Milton or Edward Phillips.
A call for action `` before it is too late '' has alarming implications when it comes from a man who, in his previous reports on the schools, cautioned so strongly against extreme measures.
Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.
There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.
-- The deterrent power of our Armed Forces comes from both their nuclear retaliatory capability and their capability to conduct other essential operations in any form of war.
This comes not alone from high-set, high-rep training, but from certain definition-specialization exercises which the champion selects for himself with the knowledge of exactly what works best for him.
During a round of target practice the sun comes from behind a cloud and dazzles the marksman, lowering his chance of a bull's-eye.
Much of the available information comes not from the Federal government but from an exchange of experiences among states.
that on the immediate horizon, if further large-scale ( relatively speaking ) desegregation comes, it will result from court orders on suits filed in several Middle-South states.
The final example of the failure to use available evidence, though evidence of a different kind from that which has so far been considered, comes from Fromm's treatment of some other writers who have dealt with the same themes.
This theme comes to represent the outer world, the realm of battles and banquets -- seen from a distance, quite distinct from the quieter spiritual life in the monastery.
Much of the material comes directly from secondary sources such as Strukturbericht.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.
Udall, who comes from one of the Mormon first-families of Arizona, is a bluff, plain-spoken man with a lust for politics and a habit of landing right in the middle of the fight.
A picture of her in high school comes from a younger schoolmate, Albert S. Flint, friend of her brother Winslow, and later, like Winslow, a noted astronomer.
One of the finest of artists' oils comes from poppy seeds.
Sesame seed, which comes from the tall pods of a plant grown in Egypt, Brazil, and Central America, has a toasted-nut flavor and can be used in almost any dish calling for almonds.
We had tea at Mr. Washizu's home where I learned that he, too, comes from a very wealthy family.

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