Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring only to the Ionian colonies along the coast.

The precise reference of this term has varied over time, perhaps originally referring to the Ionian colonies on the Asia Minor coast.

' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

According to Pausanias, writing in the 2nd century AD, the term ' Achaean ' was originally given to those Greeks inhabiting the Argolis and Laconia.

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

The term is less common in modern texts, and was originally derived from a dichotomy with major tranquilizers, also known as neuroleptics or antipsychotics.

Moreover, although Reverend Peters claimed that the term blue law was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has since been found to be unreliable.

Aristotle applies the term category ( perhaps not originally ) to ten highest-level classes.

The phylum was originally called " Polyzoa ", but this term was superseded by " Bryozoa " in 1831.

According to Jan Nattier, the term Mahāyāna (" Great Vehicle ") was originally even an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayāna, or the " Bodhisattva Vehicle.

They were originally made from lignum vitae, a dense wood giving rise to the term " woods " for bowls, but are now more typically made of a hard plastic composite material.

The term bean originally referred to the seed of the broad or fava bean, but was later expanded to include members of the New World genus Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna.

The term " manic-depressive illness " or psychosis was coined by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the late nineteenth century, originally referring to all kinds of mood disorder.

The term originally signified a chant by alternate choirs, but has quite lost this meaning in the Breviary.

Black metal was originally used as a term for extreme metal bands with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrics ; today, the most common lyrical theme is opposition to Christianity and other organized religions.

The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

The term " filial " ( meaning " of a child ") characterizes the respect that a child, originally a son, should show to his parents.

Fans sometimes make up explanations for such errors that may or may not be integrated into canon ; this has come to be colloquially known as fanwanking ( a term originally coined by the author Craig Hinton to describe excessive use of continuity ).

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

There is no earlier use of the term and Adjacium is not an attested Latin word, which probably means that it is a Latinization of a word in some other language.

Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.

In Europe a similar liquid process in open-topped crucibles took place which was probably less efficient than the Roman process and the use of the term tutty by Albertus Magnus in the 13th century suggests influence from Islamic technology.

Mexican factory workers and railroad crews first arrived in the Chicagoland area ( Chicago, Illinois ), used the term among themselves, probably to mean chicanery or the working man.

This is a rare term, but probably does equate to castrato.

Camouflage is a form of visual deception ; the term probably comes from camouflet, a French term meaning smoke blown in someone's face as a practical joke.

The term " Fonni " probably derives from the Latin " fons " that it means Fountain or also " God of the sources ".

The term Germani, therefore, probably applied to a small group of tribes in northeastern Gaul who may or may not have spoken a Germanic language, and whose links to Germania are unclear.

It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance.

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

The term " Gardnerian " was probably coined by the founder of Cochranian Witchcraft, Robert Cochrane in the 1950s or 60s, who himself left that tradition to found his own.

The term human rights probably came into use some time between Paine's The Rights of Man and William Lloyd Garrison's 1831 writings in The Liberator, in which he stated that he was trying to enlist his readers in " the great cause of human rights ".

Due to the vast influence of immigration from the Canary Islands, the term probably came from the mojo creole marinades adapted in Cuba using citrus vs traditional Isleno types.

The term “ penny ”, as it refers to nails, probably originated in medieval England to describe the price of 100 nails.

Widespread usage of the term New Age began in the mid-1970s ( reflected in the title of monthly periodical New Age Journal ) and probably influenced several thousand small metaphysical book-and gift-stores that increasingly defined themselves as " New Age bookstores.

Both were drawn from the Classical Latin term origanum, which probably referred specifically to sweet marjoram, and was itself a derivation from the Greek ( origanon ), which simply referred to " an acrid herb ".

Historically, the term was probably influenced by Gothic haiþi " dwelling on the heath ", appearing as haiþno in Ulfilas ' bible as " gentile woman " ( translating the " Hellene " in ).

The word has an unknown origin and was originally ( c. 1440 ) used as a term for a short knife or dagger, probably related to Dutch spyd and / or the Latin " spad -" root meaning " sword "; cf.

This is probably because the term “ nanotechnology ” gained serious attention just before that time, following its use by Drexler in his 1986 book, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, which cited Feynman, and in a cover article headlined " Nanotechnology ", published later that year in a mass-circulation science-oriented magazine, OMNI.

The word " Gothic " was applied as a pejorative term to all things Northern European and, hence, barbarian, probably first by Giorgio Vasari.

Yahalom is usually translated by the Septuagint as an " onyx ", but sometimes as " beryl " or as " jasper "; onyx only started being mined after the Septuagint was written, so the Septuagint's term " onyx " probably does not mean onyx – onyx is originally an Assyrian word meaning ring, and so could refer to anything used for making rings.

Osteomalacia is the term used to describe a similar condition occurring in adults, generally due to a deficiency of vitamin D. The origin of the word " rickets " is probably from the Old English dialect word ' wrickken ', to twist.

The term probably was derived and translated incorrectly from Middle High German and referred to playing cards on a barrel head ( from kopf, meaning head, and Schaff, meaning a barrel ).