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A prolonged or exhaustive discussion especially an acrimonious or invective harangue a strain of abusive or railing language a philippic...
Lenard rays
Rays emanating from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays as aluminium which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard b 1862 who first described them...
Philippic
Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes the Grecian orator denouncing Philip king of Macedon...
Philippize
To support or advocate the cause of Philip of Macedon...
Petty-bag Office
Petty-bag Office, an office belonging to the Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for suits for and against solicitors and officers of that Court, and for process and proceedings by extents on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnum scire facias to repel letters-patent, etc., Termes de la Ley. The term is derived from the little bag (parva baga) in which original writs relating to the business of the Crown were anciently kept.By the Great Seal Offices Abolition Act, 1884, s. 5, provision was made for the abolition of the office of Clerk of the Petty Bag, and the transfer of his duties, and in 1888, the last holder of the office dying, it ceased to exist.The Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery is now transferred to the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 18(2)(b)], replacing (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 16).Pew [fr. puye, Dut.; appui, Fr.], an enclosed seat in a church. It is some what in the nature of an heirloom, and may descend by immemorial ...
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