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Neo Darwinism

The theory which holds natural selection as explained by Darwin to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals

Muscle reading

the whereabouts of hidden objects etc by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact

mousetrap

stiff loop of wire mounted on a small wooden platform base and attached to a strong spring which holds the loop firmly against the base To activate the trap the loop is pulled through a 180deg arc

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Misbeliever

One who believes wrongly one who holds a false religion

Millrind

A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center

Mesne

Middle intervening as a mesne lord that is a lord who holds land of a superior but grants a part of it to another person in which case he is

Mennonist

is no original sin that infants should not be baptized and that Christians ought not to take oath hold office or render military service

Mediatize

To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position to annex specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller

Marxism

A system of economic and political thought originated by Karl Marx and elaborated by others It holds that the state has been the a device for suppression of the masses allowing exploitation by a dominant

Martingale

bit or now more commonly ending in two rings through which the reins pass It is intended to hold down the head of the horse and prevent him from rearing

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