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Harpsichord

fingers by means of keys provided with quills instead of hammers for striking the strings It is now superseded by the piano

Abjuration

was substituted by Act 30 & 31 Vict. C. 75, s. 5. This has in its turn been superseded by the (English) Promissory Oaths Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 72), by which a new form

scale A movable window with a hairline assists in alignment of the scales This device has been largely superseded by the electronic calculator which has a greater precision than the slide rule Also called colloquially slipstick

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Siderography

hardened over a soft steel plate which thus becomes a facsimile of the original The process has been superseded by electrotypy

Pike

soldiers weapon consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff with a pointed steel head It is now superseded by the bayonet

Petard

attached to a plank to be exploded against and break down gates barricades drawbridges etc It has been superseded

Peccavi

I have sinned used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense used rarely superseded by the approximate equivalent mea culpa

nay

No a negative answer to a question asked or a request made now superseded by no Opposed to aye or yea See also Yes

Marxism

that historical change occurs through class struggle and that the capitalist system will inevitably wither away to be superseded by a classless society

Livre

of account afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous It is not now in use having been superseded by the franc

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