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study and Greek
It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.
He recalled Lucy, as `` a bright-looking black-eyed young lady who came regularly through the boys' study hall to join the class in Greek in the little recitation room beyond ''.
With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.
The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.
Accordingly the modern study of marine and freshwater algae is called either phycology or algology, depending on whether the Greek or Latin root is used.
While scholars wanting to learn Greek used to employ learned Greeks to teach them directly, the Aldine editions, edited by Greek scholars, allowed many scholars across Europe to study Greek.
In his study of Greek literature his master was Emmanuel Chrysoloras.
Aeronautics ( from Greek ὰήρ āēr which means " air " and ναυτική nautikē which means " navigation, Airmanship ", i. e. " navigation of the air ") is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of airflight-capable machines, or the techniques of operating aircraft and rocketry within the atmosphere.
He encouraged the study of Greek by Jews.
Axiology ( from Greek, axiā, " value, worth "; and ,-logos ) is the philosophical study of value.
The combination of Scriptural study and of Greek learning was characteristic of the famous Alexandrian School, of Clement, Origen, Dionysius and Theognostus.
At this time, Homer's poems were used as textbooks for the study of Greek.
Cryptanalysis ( from the Greek kryptós, " hidden ", and analýein, " to loosen " or " to untie ") is the art and science of analyzing information systems in order to study the hidden aspects of the systems.
Cryptozoology ( from Greek κρυπτός, kryptos, " hidden " + zoology ; literally, " study of hidden animals ") refers to the search for animals whose existence has not been proven.
Eschatology, from two Greek words meaning last ( ἔσχατος, last ) and study ( λογία, lit.
Cytology ( from Greek, kytos, " a hollow "; and ,-logia ) means " the study of cells ".
Christology ( from Greek Χριστός Khristós and ,-logia ) is the field of study within Christian theology which is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the canonical Gospels and the epistles of the New Testament.
According to Françoise Hélène Pairault's study, historical and archaeological evidence point to the fact that both Diana of the Aventine and Diana Nemorensis were the product of the direct or indirect influence of the cult of Artemis spread by the Phoceans among the Greek towns of Campania Cuma and Capua, which in turn passed it over to the Etruscans and the Latins by the VI and V centuries BC.
Like many other Greek mathematical treatises, Diophantus was forgotten in Western Europe during the so-called Dark Ages, since the study of ancient Greek had greatly declined.

study and was
If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.
Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.
As far as I'm concerned, it was a separate matter from the general Committee study of Bang-Jensen's conduct.
With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.
Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.
A study at the Pentagon and at the service academies revealed that nothing was being done there.
Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.
He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.
The telephone was in the study but the ringing came from the hall.
The apex, the study where Eugene slept, was light and bright and airy and cheerful.
In one of these, an exploding-wire device to study systems thermodynamically up to 6,000 Af and 100 atmospheres pressure, a major goal was achieved.
A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.
The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.
Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.
A detailed study of this latter phenomenon was not attempted in this paper.
It was stated earlier that one purpose of this study was to extend the analysis of variability of Onset and Completion in each of the 21 growth centers somewhat beyond that provided by the data in Tables 1 and 2.
For example, the steering committee might announce that the group felt a topic under study should not be dropped for an additional week as there was still too much of it untouched.
There was a particularly marvelous opportunity for study in this area since almost every stage of pregnancy was represented, from a childless couple to and including every trimester.
Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.
The battery median grade-equivalent was used in data analysis in this study.
Although the present study was not a direct replication of their investigations, the results do not confirm their conclusion.

study and distinctive
The connection many of them had with the church was of the slenderest kind, consisting mainly in adopting the title of abbé, after a remarkably moderate course of theological study, practising celibacy and wearing a distinctive dress — a short dark-violet coat with narrow collar.
The efforts of ancient thinkers to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form, and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulted in " poetics "— the study of the aesthetics of poetry.
In 1956 Gimbutas introduced her Kurgan hypothesis, which combined archaeological study of the distinctive Kurgan burial mounds with linguistics to unravel some problems in the study of the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) speaking peoples, whom she dubbed the " Kurgans "; namely, to account for their origin and to trace their migrations into Europe.
These may organize into distinctive patterns which are currently under active study.
The university's distinctive profile reflects the aims of its founders: breadth of study and community atmosphere.
A recent neuroimaging study found distinctive patterns of neural activation in these regions depending on whether decisions were made on the basis of personal volition or following directions from someone else.
The distinctive feature of this course is the comparative study of both Islamic law and Common law.
The term " symbolic interactionism " has come into use as a label for a relatively distinctive approach to the study of human life and human conduct.
Although this demonstrated Landor's distinctive style of writing, it suffered from his failure to study the art of drama and so made little impression.
A Y chromosome haplogroups study published in 2005 found that " three main groups of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in spite of some quantitative differences, share a large fraction of the same ancient gene pool distinctive for the Balkan area ".
A cladistic study of the morphology of waterfowl found that the Magpie Goose was an early and distinctive offshoot, diverging after screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans.
A cladistic study of the morphology of waterfowl found that the Magpie Goose was an early and distinctive offshoot, diverging after screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans.
Jung developed his own distinctive approach to the study of the human mind.
Another molecular study of the eagles suggested that kienerii was distinctive enough to be retained in a separate genus for which the name Kienastur had been suggested.
An influential stylistic or stylometric study was undertaken by Cyrus Hoy, who in 1962 divided the play between Shakespeare and Fletcher based on their distinctive word choices, for example Fletcher's uses of ye for you and em for them.
Dr. Paul Lemoine of Nantes, France had already published a study in a French medical journal in 1968 about children with distinctive features whose mothers were alcoholics, and in the U. S., Christy Ulleland and colleagues at the University of Washington Medical School had conducted an 18-month study in 1968 – 1969 documenting the risk of maternal alcohol consumption among the offspring of 11 alcoholic mothers.
* A distinctive point in the epidemiological study of this outbreak, is that the outbreak was localized to this particular hospital and not observed in any of the other hospitals in the city of Benghazi.
A distinctive feature of this study stems from Reid's success in securing interviews with key figures in film making.
" Each developed a distinctive but complementary style: Forster's songs were angular and angst-ridden, making much use of irony and unusual lyrical imagery, while McLennan's were generally softer and more sensitive, his lyrics often based on character study and reported speech.
The distinctive traditional Scots dialect of Chirnside and Berwickshire was the subject of a study by Swiss dialectologist Paul Wettstein, published in 1942.
Findings in favour of the stress hypothesis include a study in which distinctive room position affected occurrence of the disorder.
The tradition of keeping records of rulers survived through the ages and became a part of modern history and chronology, but in fact it appears as a distinctive field of study and independent discipline closely related to political science and legal studies.

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