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overblown

Having been given more publicity than warranted having had ascribed more importance than was justified as an overblown medical discovery...

the Indian people occupying the area of Veracruz Chiapas Tabasco Campeche and Yucatan together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador The Maya peoples are dark short and brachycephalic and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people They cultivated a variety of crops were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics used cacao as a medium of exchange and were workers of gold silver and copper Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and palaces and they possessed a superior calendar and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing with records said to go back to about 700 a d...

mares nest

A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax something grossly absurd...

Manifestation

The act of manifesting or disclosing or the state of being manifested discovery to the eye or to the understanding...

Luciferous

Giving light affording light or means of discovery...

Indiscovery

Lack of discovery...

Heuristic

Serving to promote discovery or learning used especially of thories or paradigms which stimulate new ideas for discovering facts in experimental sciences...

Diagnosis

Diagnosis (Med.), the discovery of the source of a patient's illness....

Cross-bill

Cross-bill, answering to the reconventio of the CanonLaw, as a mode of defence by cross-examination, was one filed by a defendant in the Court of Chancery against the plaintiff or other defendants in the same suit, either to obtain (1) a necessry discovery of facts in aid of his defence to the original bill; or (2) full relief to all parties, touching the mattes of the original bill. See now COUNTERCLAIM.Also a bill of exchange given in consideration of another bill....

Interrogatories

Interrogatories, written questions addressed on behalf of one party to a cause, before the trial thereof, to the other party, who is bound to answer them in writing upon oath.In the Courts of Equity either party could from very early times interrogate the other. In the Courts of Law this power was first given by the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, s. 51, which, however, only allowed it to be exercised by leave of the Court or a judge. Under the present practice interrogatories can only be administered in the High Court by leave of the Court, i.e., a Master at Chambers, and the particular questions proposed to be asked must be submitted for his approval; a sum, generally 5l., may be ordered to be paid into Court as security for costs. See R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXI., and consult Bray or Ross on Discovery. As to interrogatories in the County Courts, see C.C. Rules, 1903, Ord. XVI. An order for interrogatories cannot be made in an arbitration under the (English) Workmen's Compensati...

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