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The term " modern " ( Latin modernus from modo, " just now ") dates from the 5th century, originally distinguishing the Christian era from the Pagan era, yet the word entered general usage only in the 17th-century quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns — debating: " Is Modern culture superior to Classical ( Græco – Roman ) culture?
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Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.
Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.
In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.
The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).
Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.
Some modern descendants of this culture often choose to use the term " Ancestral Pueblo " peoples.
* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.
In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.
In modern usage, the term is sometimes used improperly as a catch-all classification of " other world religions " alongside major organized religions.
Contrary to modern usage, the term did not have the extended connotation of overweening pride, self-confidence or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.
The term " aesthetics " was appropriated and coined with new meaning in the German form Æsthetik ( modern spelling Ästhetik ) by Alexander Baumgarten in 1735.
The Angles is a modern term for a Germanic people, who took their name from the region of Angeln, a district located in what is today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
* Anglo-Saxon economy, modern macroeconomic term
These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.
The term " anthemic " is a modern word coined to describe music with a celebratory connotation.
Abatis, abattis, or abbattis is a term in field fortification for an obstacle formed ( in the modern era ) of the branches of trees laid in a row, with the sharpened tops directed outwards, towards the enemy.
The term is less common in modern texts, and was originally derived from a dichotomy with major tranquilizers, also known as neuroleptics or antipsychotics.
" The term was introduced by Apollonius of Perga in his work on conic sections, but in contrast to its modern meaning, he used it to mean any line that does not intersect the given curve.
In 1876, the Spanish governor-general of the Philippines José Malcampo coined the term juramentado for the behavior ( from juramentar-" to take an oath "), surviving into modern Filipino languages as huramentado.
However, with the emergence of dancesport in modern times, the term has become narrower in scope.
The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.
In byte-oriented systems ( i. e. most modern computers ), the term uncompressed BCD usually implies a full byte for each digit ( often including a sign ), whereas packed BCD typically encodes two decimal digits within a single byte by taking advantage of the fact that four bits are enough to represent the range 0 to 9.
" The Pali term has sometimes been translated as " wisdom-being ," although in modern publications, and especially in tantric works, this is more commonly reserved for the term jñānasattva (" awareness-being "; Tib.
The term leg theory is somewhat archaic and seldom used any more, but the basic tactic still plays a part in modern cricket.
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While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.
The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".
Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".
The Latin synonym is " sonic ", after which the term sonics used to be a synonym for acoustics and later a branch of acoustics.
However, this ambiguity has been the source of controversy, particularly among Latin Americans, who feel that using the term solely for the United States misappropriates it.
Latin Americans also may employ the term norteamericano ( North American ), which conflates the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The intended meaning was likely the first, which would be translated as Latin causātīvus or effectīvus, but the Latin term was a translation of the second.
The term " adrenal " comes from ad-( Latin, " near ") and renes ( Latin, " kidney ").
The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".
The Latin name Aelia is the source of the Arabic term Iliyā ' ( إلياء ), an early Islamic name for Jerusalem.
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.
In law, affiliation ( from Latin ad-filiare, to adopt as a son ) is the term to describe a partnership between two or more parties.
The term Al Nesr Al Tair appeared in Al Achsasi Al Mouakket catalogue, which was translated into Latin as Vultur Volans.
Oreichalkos, the Ancient Greek translation of this term, was later adapted to the Latin aurichalcum meaning " golden copper " which became the standard term for brass.
The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).
" His term for analogy is Latin analogia.
Both terms, vasco and basque, are inherited from Latin ethnonym Vascones which in turn goes back to the Greek term οὐασκώνους ( ouaskōnous ), an ethnonym used by Strabo in his Geographica ( 23 CE, Book III ).
The term Vascuence, derived from Latin vasconĭce, has acquired negative connotations over the centuries and is not well liked amongst Basque speakers generally.
Bede wrote in Latin and never used the term and his list of kings holding imperium should be treated with caution, not least in that he overlooks kings such as Penda of Mercia, who clearly held some kind of dominance during his reign.
The name " Bohemia " derives from the Latin term for the Celtic tribe inhabiting that area, the Boii, who were called Boiohaemum in the early Middle Ages.
Increases in the number of immigrants to the United States from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America have brought up questions about who uses the term African-American.
The term constitution comes through French from the Latin word constitutio, used for regulations and orders, such as the imperial enactments ( constitutiones principis: edicta, mandata, decreta, rescripta ).
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