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blackmail
blackmail [originally, payment extorted from farmers in Scotland and northern England, from black + dialectal mail payment, rent] : extortion or coercion by often written threats esp. of public exposure, physical harm, or
Dialectician
One versed in dialectics a logician a reasoner
Dialectology
That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects
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Dialector
One skilled in dialectics
Neo Hegelianism
The philosophy of a school of British and American idealists who follow Hegel in dialectical or logical method and in the general outcome of their doctrine The founders and leaders of Neo Hegelianism
Romance
A species of fictitious writing originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects and afterward in prose such as the tales of the court of Arthur and of Amadis of Gaul
Special pleading
Special pleading, the science of pleading. It is a forensic invention, due to the dialectic genius of the Middle Ages, but nearly destroyed by modern innovation. See Steph. On Plead.; Bullen and Leake's
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