In Anglo-Saxon, the word dic already existed and was pronounced with a hard c in northern England and as ditch in the south.

* Carlos Tello Macías ( sep .- dic.

The town takes its name from dic an Anglo-Saxon word meaning either ditch or embankment.

He commemorated Geoffrey's death in the planh, A totz dic que ja mais non voil.

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The spell checking is done using the. aff file for the locale together with the. dic file.

The. dic file is a list of words along with a group of letters which refer to the affixes found in the. aff file.

This saves space because instead of having include all forms of a word, like jump ( jumping, jumps, jumped ), the. dic file will include the word once and the references to the affixes in the. aff file allow the construction of all the other forms.

Sine qua non (; ) or condicio sine qua non ( plural: condiciones sine quibus non ) refers to an indispensable and essential action, condition, or ingredient.

" Porisma est propositio in qua proponitur demonstrate rem aliquam vel plures Batas ease, cui vel quibus, ut et cuilibet ex rebus innumeris non quidem datis, sed quae ad ea quae data sunt eandem habent relationem, convenire ostendendum est affectionem quandam communem in propositione descriptam.

Farewell in Christ, always mindful of us, Amen. The Latin reads: Haec tibi dulcissime fili cozb ( er ) te de posicione officinarum paucis examplata direxi, quibus sollertiam exerceas tuam, meamq ( ue ) devotione ( m ) utcumq ( ue ) cognoscas, qua tuae bonae voluntari satisfacere me segnem non inveniri confido.

There was, of course, more to the portrait of a lady you carried in your mind's eye than the sine qua non of her virtue.

The sine qua non of the elections was naturally an impartial and standardized procedure.

Arguments qua its matter and Arguments qua its Format.

Being qua Being: A Theory of Identity, Existence, and Predication.

Vincenzo, through his tuning research, found the underlying truth at the heart of the misunderstood myth of ' Pythagoras ' hammers ' ( the square of the numbers concerned yielded those musical intervals, not the actual numbers, as believed ), and through this and other discoveries that demonstrated the fallibility of traditional authorities, a radically empirical attitude developed, passed on to Galileo, which regarded " experience and demonstration " as the sine qua non of valid rational enquiry.

A person who is hypnotized displays certain unusual characteristics and propensities, compared with a non-hypnotized subject, most notably hyper-suggestibility, which some authorities have considered a sine qua non of hypnosis.

Universal science or first philosophy treats of " being qua being "— that is, what is basic to all science before one adds the particular details of any one science.

Essentially " being qua being " may be translated as " being insofar as being goes " or as " being in terms of being.

The 20th century philosopher Heidegger thought previous philosophers have lost sight of the question of Being ( qua Being ) in favour of the questions of beings ( existing things ), so that a return to the Parmenidean approach was needed.

" It is the inquiry into being in so much as it is being (" being qua being "), or into beings insofar as they exist — and not insofar as, for instance, particular facts can be obtained about them or particular properties belong to them.

According to Avicenna, and in an interpretation of Greek Aristotelian and Platonist ontological doctrines in mediaeval metaphysics, being is either necessary, contingent qua possible, or impossible.

Contingent qua possible being is neither necessary nor impossible for it to be or not to be.

Whitehead chooses a way of defining the actual entities that makes them all alike, qua actual entities, with a single exception.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

) By definition, a trademark enjoys no protection ( qua trademark ) until and unless it is " disclosed " to consumers, for only then are consumers able to associate it with a supplier or source in the requisite manner.

According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Solovyov thought, “ Although empiricism and rationalism (= idealism ) rest on false principles, their respective objective contents, external experience, qua the foundation of natural science, and logical thought, qua the foundation of pure philosophy, are to be synthesized or encompassed along with mystical knowledge in ' integral knowledge ,' what Solovyov terms ' theosophy.

For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods ; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise.

It provides the basis of the " conflict-driven " play, a term we still tout as the sine qua non of dramaturgy.

The 20th century philosopher Heidegger thought previous philosophers have lost sight the question of Being ( qua Being ) in favour of the questions of beings ( existing things ), so that a return to the Parmenidean approach was needed.

Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes who represents revenge, stands guard sleepless at the top of this turret lashing a whip.

Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.

* Magaera, Tisiphone and Alecto will be the main antagonists in the upcoming video game God of War: Ascension.

Tisiphone ( Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, " avenging murder ") is the name of two figures in Greek mythology.

Tisiphone was one of the Erinyes or Furies, and sister of Alecto and Megaera.

A myth recounts how Tisiphone fell in love with Cithaeron, and caused his death by snakebite, specifically, by one of the snakes from her head.

In Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, Tisiphone is recognized as the furious and cruel guardian of the gates of Tartarus.

Tisiphone was the daughter of Alcmaeon and Manto.

Alcmaeon accidentally left his children, Tisiphone and Amphilochus, with Creon.

Creon's wife sold Tisiphone into slavery, envious of her beauty.

* Between 1790 and 1973 there was a British naval sloop called Tisiphone.

* Fury is a DC Comics character empowered by Tisiphone.

* Tisiphone is incorrectly mentioned as one of the Gorgons in the British horror movie The Gorgon from 1964.

There, thousands of years in the future, a fading Tisiphone merges with a dying, former Imperial Cadre drop commando, Alicia DeVries, and helps wreak vengeance on the space pirates who killed DeVries ' family.

* Tisiphone appears as a major supporting character in the WebMage series of Cyberpunk fantasy novels by Kelly McCullough.

* The character Tisiphone featured in the stage play Rough Magic, written by Roberto Aguirre Sacasa.

* In the video game Tomb Raider: Underworld, Megaera and Tisiphone are the names of two sister ships which form part of the game's setting.

* In the video game God of War III, the player must pass the Gates of Tisiphone on his way to Tartarus.

These were Amphilochus and Tisiphone.

Creon's wife, however, feared that he might marry Tisiphone because of her great beauty, and sold the girl as a slave.

Even at that, her powers had come to her via the Fury Tisiphone, and the Furies, under the euphemism, " the Kindly Ones " ( a translation of " Eumenides ", a name they earned during the events of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy ), are major characters in the series.

He was promoted commander for his gallant services and appointed to the fireship Tisiphone.

In Rameau's 1733 Hippolyte et Aricie, the hero ( Hippolyte ) was sung by a haute-contre, while the roles of the three Fates and Tisiphone were scored for basses and tenors.

During an intense battle, the Fledermaus is slain by Fury, while she is affected by the god Tisiphone.