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noun
1.
A radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium.  Synonyms: atomic number 97, berkelium.






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... think, be identified respectively with Aristotle's {anchinoia} and {eustochia}. The latter of these, {eustochia}, Aristotle mentions incidentally when treating of {euboulia}, or good deliberation. Eth. Nic. bk. vi. ch. 9. Good deliberation, he says, is not {eustochia}, for the former is a slow process, whereas the latter is not guided by reason, and is rapid. In the same passage he tells us that {anchinoia} is a sort of {eustochia}. But he speaks of {anchinoia} ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown

... Yi-ching, which was 1 御史悉案問諸生, 諸生傳相告引. 2 自除犯禁者, 四百六餘人, 皆阬之咸陽. The meaning of this passage as a whole is sufficiently plain, but I am unable to make out the force of the phrase 自 除. 3 See the remarks of Chamg Chia-tsi (夾際鄭氏), of the Sung dynasty, on the subject, in the 文獻通考, Bk. clxxiv. p. 5. exempted as being a work on divination, nor did it extend to the other classics which were in charge of the Board of Great Scholars. There ought to have been no difficulty in finding copies when the Han dynasty superseded that of the Ch'in, and probably ...
— THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) Unicode Version • James Legge

... the first edition of The Analogy, p. xiv. See also Swift's description of the Duchess of Marlborough, in Last four Years of Queen Anne, bk. i. The first and most prominent subject of Bishop Butler's 'Durham Charge,' is 'the general decay of religion,' 'which,' he says, 'is now observed by everyone, and has been for some time the complaint of all serious persons' (written in 1751). The Bishop then instructs his clergy at length how ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... history was planned. The order in which its several parts were composed, and the date of its completion, are not certainly known, as Absalon died in 1201. But the work was not then finished; for, at the end of Bk. XI, one Birger, who died in 1202, is mentioned ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... man in Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour. Bryant. Best stories to tell. Coussens. Child's book of stories. Grover. Folk-lore reader, bk. i. St. Nicholas, v. 2. Summers. Readers, ...
— Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours • Various

... Bk. XI. In Ticknell's edition of Addison's works the latter part of this sentence is omitted; the same observation having been ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele



Words linked to "Bk" :   metallic element, metal, atomic number 97



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