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1. reredos<\/strong> \u2014 decorated screen or wall behind altar in a church; brick or stone back of a fireplace<\/p>\n

The first project of the Church Restoration Committee will be to fund the repainting of the <\/em>reredos in the Saint Matthew’s Chapel, using the extensive notes of the 19th-Century antiquarian Devon Shrikeston as our guide for the colors.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. negus<\/strong> \u2014 sweetened wine and hot water, with lemon and spice<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease take the chair closest to the fire and I\u2019ll call for some <\/em>negus from the kitchen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. lawn<\/strong> \u2014 fine linen fabric<\/p>\n

The frill of her brocade skirt was made from cloky sheer <\/em>lawn, blistered in a badger pattern, her supposed ‘spirit animal’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. accidie<\/strong> \u2014 sloth, torpor; indifference, esp. in religious duties<\/p>\n

Though it remains on the lists of deadly sins under the rubric of ‘Sloth’, which most today interpret as mere laziness, the religious of medieval times were all too aware of the dangers of <\/em>accidie, perhaps best described by George Willis as “that causeless languor and discontent with life which we call ‘the blues.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. Mohock<\/strong> \u2014 violent aristocratic thugs who tormented London in the early 18th Century<\/p>\n

Though some doubt has been cast upon the very existence of an organized group calling themselves <\/em>Mohocks, it is a fact that attacks by ruffians plagued Londoners in 1712, and the group\u2014fictive or not\u2014struck a resounding chord against the class consciousness of an England wherein aristocratic thugs could engage in violent criminality with impunity while the lowest classes could be hanged for stealing bread.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. armscye<\/strong> \u2014 armhole in a garment<\/p>\n

There are no <\/em>armscyes or indeed any holes at all in a true Roman tunic, which creates its effects entirely by clever drapery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. houppelande<\/strong> \u2014 medieval long-bodied outerwear, usually with full flared sleeves and sometimes trimmed with fur<\/p>\n

Lady Alys seemed determined to impress her noble kinsman, and wore her new <\/em>houppelande with its fur collar though it was wholly inappropriate for the solemn occasion.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. adduce<\/strong> \u2014 to cite, to present as evidence<\/p>\n

Not a single example of the crime can be found in the court records, nor have the proponents of the law <\/em>adduced any records from the newspapers or any other source other than the wild claims of anonymous persons on Twitter, leading one to wonder what this tempest in a teapot is truly about.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. mitosis<\/strong> \u2014 (biology<\/em>) part of cell division cycle in which replicated chromosomes divide into separate nuclei; by extension, cell division itself<\/p>\n

Under the influence of the sacred plants the clouds seem to fill with the figures of all his ancestors, only to undergo a hideous <\/em>mitosis where each forbear split into two people, only to split again, and again, and again, in some sort of perverse vision of his family tree written across the heavens in these fevered dreams that he realized must carry deep meaning but which were only making him nauseous.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. anuria<\/strong> \u2014 lack of urine, failure of kidneys to produce urine<\/p>\n

Though the patient’s first report of <\/em>anuria suggested kidney failure, his subsequent intense pain made clear that kidney stones were to blame.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. reredos \u2014 decorated screen or wall behind altar in a church; brick or stone back of a fireplace The first project of the Church Restoration Committee will be to fund the repainting of the reredos in the Saint Matthew’s Chapel, using the extensive notes of the 19th-Century antiquarian Devon Shrikeston as our guide for … <\/p>\n

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