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scrivener

scrivener [Middle English, alteration of scriveyn, from Anglo-French escrivein, ultimately from Latin scriba public record keeper, from scribere to write] : a professional or public copyist or writer of official or formal documents (as deeds or...

affiant

affiant [Middle French, from present participle of affier to pledge faith, swear, from Medieval Latin affidare, ultimately from Latin ad to + fidere to trust] : a person who swears to an affidavit compare deponent, witness

caesura

A metrical break in a verse occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse a sense pause in the middle of

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Mediaeligvalism

The method or spirit of the Middle Ages devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages a survival from the Middle Ages

Monsoon

winds of the Indian Ocean which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December

Temple

of the Common Law, and converted into hospitia, or inns of Court. They are called the Inner and Middle Temple, in relation to Essex House, which was also a part of the House of the Templars, and

Middlemost

Being in the middle or nearest the middle midmost

Slide rule

a thin flat calculating device consisting of a fixed outer piece and a movable middle piece Both pieces are graduated in such a way as by a logarithmic scale that multiplication division and

Minnesinger

A love singer specifically one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century They were chiefly of noble birth and made

Quarterstaff

a weapon of defense and offense so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle and the other between the middle and the end

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