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| ARTICLES RELATED TO -logy - Usage | | | | | |  -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - Toilet - EtymologyThe word toilet came to be used in English along with other French fashions (first noted 1681), and originally referred to the whole complex of operations of hairdressing and body care that centered on a dressing table covered to the floor with cloth (toile) and lace, on which stood a dressing glass, which might also be draped in lace: the ensemble was a toilette. Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock (1717) described the intricacies of a lady's preparation:
‘And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd
Each silver ...
See also:Toilet, Toilet - Etymology, Toilet - Khazi, Toilet - Loo, Toilet - Types of toilets, Toilet - Toilets in private residences, Toilet - Public toilets, Toilet - High-tech toilets, Toilet - History, Toilet - Culture, Toilet - Disposal, Toilet - Graffiti, Toilet - Furtive sexual relations, Toilet - Social bonding, Toilet - Sex- or caste-based cleaning roles, Toilet - Unusual uses, Toilet - The Great Equalizer, Toilet - Bibliography Read more here: » Toilet: Encyclopedia II - Toilet - Etymology |
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| | | | | -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - Mythology - What is mythology? In order to consider mythology, it is first necessary to consider what is meant by the term myth.
The ancient Greek Μυθος originally meant simply word or speech, and by extension, a story or narrative. This quickly took on the sense of fiction, and both Pindar (d. 443 BC) and Plato (d. ca. 347 BC) contrast Μυθος with Λογος as "historical truth." Many ancient usages of Μυθος are specifically as fiction; see here for details in the Liddell-Scott- ...
See also:Mythology, Mythology - What is mythology?, Mythology - Religion and mythology, Mythology - Classifications, Mythology - Related concepts, Mythology - Formation of myths, Mythology - Myths as depictions of historical events, Mythology - Other theories, Mythology - Modern mythology, Mythology - Myths by region, Mythology - Africa, Mythology - Asia non-Middle East, Mythology - Australia and Oceania, Mythology - Europe, Mythology - Middle East, Mythology - North America, Mythology - South America and Mesoamerica, Mythology - Mythological archetypes, Mythology - Mythological creatures, Mythology - Books on mythology Read more here: » Mythology: Encyclopedia II - Mythology - What is mythology? |
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| | | | | -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - Origin and history of the hyphen In medieval times and the early days of printing, when fonts all resembled Old English, the predecessor of the comma was a slash. As the hyphen ought not to be confused with this, a double-slash was used, this resembling an equals sign tilted like a slash. Writing forms changed with time, and included the full development of the comma, so the hyphen could become one horizontal stroke.
However, publishers of dictionaries liked that a tilted symbol would give them a little extra room in their books. Those dictionaries based on the secon ...
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| | | | | -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - Cocaine - Legal status The production, the distribution and the sales of cocaine products are restricted (and illegal in most contexts) in most countries.
Cocaine - Africa.
In Nigeria, it is a crime to be seen with cocaine.
In South Africa, it is a crime to have cocaine in your posession.
Cocaine - Asia.
In Pakistan, use and possession of cocaine is illegal.
In Singapore, possession of more than 15 grams of cocaine resul ...
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| | | | | | -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - Electricity generation - Methods of generating electricity
Electricity generation - Methods for transforming other power into electrical power.
Rotating turbines attached to electrical generators produce most commercially available electricity. Turbines may be driven by using steam, water, wind or other fluids as an intermediate energy carrier. The most common usage is by steam in fossil fuel power plants or nuclear power plants, and by water in hydroelectric dams. Small mobile generators are often driven by diesel e ...
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| | | | | | | | | -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - Gospel - Canonical Gospels Of the many gospels written in antiquity, exactly four gospels came to be accepted as part of the New Testament, or canonical. An insistence upon a canonical four, and no others, was a central theme of Irenaeus of Lyons, c. 185. In his central work, Adversus Haereses Irenaeus denounced various Christian groups that used only one gospel, such as Aramaic Matthew, as well as groups that embraced the texts of new revelations, such as the Valentinians (A.H. 1.11.9). Irenaeus declared that the four he espoused were the four pi ...
See also:Gospel, Gospel - Canonical Gospels, Gospel - Origin of the canonical Gospels, Gospel - Non-canonical gospels, Gospel - List of non-canonical apocryphal Gospels, Gospel - Liturgical usage, Gospel - Usage in Eastern Orthodoxy liturgy, Gospel - Heraldry Read more here: » Gospel: Encyclopedia II - Gospel - Canonical Gospels |
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| | | | | -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - Papyrus - Etymology The English word papyrus derives, via Latin, from Greek πάπυρος papuros. It is interesting to note that Greek has a second word for papyrus, βύβλος bublos (said to derive from the name of the Phoenician city of Byblos). The Greek writer Theophrastos, who flourished during the 4th century BC, uses papuros when referring to the plant used as a foodstuff and bublos for the same plant when used for non-food products, such as cordage, basketry, or a writing surface. This latter usage finds its way into English in such words as bibliography, ...
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| | | | | -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - History of the word "fuck" - Euphemisms In situations where using or mentioning the word directly may be considered inappropriate, people often resort to euphemisms, one example being to bowdlerize it, either referring to it with terms such as the f-word or replacing it with similar-sounding words such as "feck", "flip" or "fudge." In software contexts, fook, fsck, fvck, fuk, fark and f2k are also used. In the formerly British Caribbean nations it is sometimes spelled fock. Fark is a bowdlerization which originated in the British Commonwealth countries, derived from exaggerated pronunciat ...
See also:History of the word "fuck", History of the word "fuck" - Modern usage, History of the word "fuck" - Euphemisms, History of the word "fuck" - Incidents on British Television, History of the word "fuck" - Censorship, History of the word "fuck" - Usage in politics, History of the word "fuck" - Early mainstream musical use, History of the word "fuck" - Further reference Read more here: » History of the word "fuck": Encyclopedia II - History of the word "fuck" - Euphemisms |
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| | | | | | | | -logy - Usage: Encyclopedia II - Euphemism - Doublespeak What distinguishes doublespeak from other euphemisms is its deliberate usage by governmental, military, or corporate institutions. Doublespeak is in turn distinguished from jargon in that doublespeak attempts to confuse and conceal the truth, while jargon often provides greater precision to those that understand it (while inadvertently confusing those who don't). An example of the distinction is the use by the military of the word casualties instead of deaths — what may appear to be an attempt to hide the fact that people hav ...
See also:Euphemism, Euphemism - Etymology, Euphemism - The euphemism treadmill, Euphemism - Classification of euphemisms, Euphemism - The evolution of euphemisms, Euphemism - Euphemisms for the profane, Euphemism - Religious euphemisms, Euphemism - Excretory euphemisms, Euphemism - Sexual euphemisms, Euphemism - Euphemisms for death, Euphemism - Doublespeak, Euphemism - Common examples Read more here: » Euphemism: Encyclopedia II - Euphemism - Doublespeak |
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Dictionary on
Tulku, sprul sku
Tulku sprul sku (Tibetan) [short for sprul pa'i sku (tul-pe-ku) from sprul pa phantom, disembodied spirit; cf Sanskrit nirmanakaya body of magical transformation] Applied to a lama of high rank, often to the head abbot of a monastery; specifically, to those lamas who have proved their ability of remembering their office and standing in a former incarnation, e.g., by selecting articles belonging previously to themselves, describing details of a former life, surroundings, etc. The two most important tulkus in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy are the Tashi and Dalai Lamas. Tulku is often referred to as an incarnation but, outside of the many varieties of an incarnating or imbodying power or energy, incarnation in popular usage is the direct continuance of a previous imbodiment. These so-called living buddhas of Tibet are one kind of tulku -- the transmission of a spiritual power or energy from one Buddha-lama of a Tibetan monastery when he dies, to a child or adult successor. If the transmission is successful, the result is tulku. Tulku is of many different kinds and very closely parallels the Hindu doctrine of avatara. Taking Jesus as an example: here was a life-long tulku, a ray from a divinity; a tulku of that divinity so far as that ray goes, a divine manifestation, and hence a true avatara in the Brahmanical sense. Again, Gautama Buddha was tulku of his own inner buddha or inner god. The average person, however, is merely overshadowed occasionally, if he really aspires, by a touch of the divine flame from within the higher parts of his own constitution, and yet even for these fugitive instants such person is tulku. But when Gautama attained buddhahood, he was relatively infilled with his own inner buddha, and therefore was that god's human tulku. That was for Siddhartha the man, nirvana; he then entered dharmakaya and this portion of him was then known of men no more: that portion of him was a man become divine. Another kind of tulku is where a human mahatma will send a ray from himself, or a part of himself, to take imbodiment, perhaps only temporarily, perhaps almost for a lifetime, in a neophyte-messenger that this mahatma is sending out into the world to teach. The messenger in this instance acts as a transmitter of the spiritual and divine powers of the mahatma. Blavatsky was such a tulku, imbodying frequently the very life of, and hence guided by, her own teacher. While this incarnation of the teacher's higher essence lasted, she was tulku. When for one reason or another the influence or ray was withdrawn for a longer or shorter period, tulku then and there became nonexistent. Still another aspect of the tulku doctrine is illustrated by the case of Blavatsky. Where is she now? Blavatsky has not yet again reincarnated -- she has not yet been born as a child -- but she has at certain times, and for one certain individual, with that individual's consent, organized as it were tulku for that individual. For the time being, therefore, we can say that Blavatsky has partially imbodied in that chosen individual for the purpose of special transmission. In all cases of tulku, they are incarnations or appearances. If Blavatsky, for instance, were to make tulku of a person for a month or a year, for the time being that person would be tulku, but when that particular work was done, the influence would be withdrawn and tulku would stop. There is again another kind of avataric incarnation or tulku, a temporary physical appearance of an adept in the mayavi-rupa. Certain Tibetan lamas are known to be able to perform this feat, and thus they too have been properly called tulkus, which is the type of tulku that certain Orientalists have referred to as "an appearance." Another type of tulku of an opposite and essentially evil character is that brought about by a hypnotist who temporarily displaces the psychological nature of his entranced subject through psychologization or even hypnosis plus mesmerism. This, however, is more often than not an act of black magic and fraught with grave dangers, both to the hypnotist and the one entranced. Every clever hypnotist actually makes a tulku of his victim in a black magic sense. When he puts an idea into the brain of his victim, that one week from now at three o'clock in the afternoon he is going to do some essentially foolish or undignified act -- for the time being that hypnotist is working a black magic tulku on that victim, and every psychologist and hypnotist knows the possibility of this fact, though the scientific explanation of the term may be strange to him. A key example of black magic tulku was what the medieval Europeans used to call werewolves. This doctrine of the tulku, however, is at heart beautiful and sublime, and hence highly reverenced by the Tibetans.
(See also: Tulku, sprul sku , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary,
Body mind and Soul)
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