The Columbian Cyclopedia, Volume 11Garretson, Cox, 1897 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... light wine , and all the rest of their drink was water ; and an inscription over the gate promised to those who might wish to enter no better fare than barley - cakes and water . The chastity of E. was so incontestable , that Chrysippus ...
... light wine , and all the rest of their drink was water ; and an inscription over the gate promised to those who might wish to enter no better fare than barley - cakes and water . The chastity of E. was so incontestable , that Chrysippus ...
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... light , I appear : F. épiphanie , epiphany - from L. epiphania , manifestation ] : among the heathen Greeks , a festival in commemoration of the appearance of a god in any particular place . The word subsequently passed into the usage ...
... light , I appear : F. épiphanie , epiphany - from L. epiphania , manifestation ] : among the heathen Greeks , a festival in commemoration of the appearance of a god in any particular place . The word subsequently passed into the usage ...
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... LIGHT , n . in optics , light acted on by epipolic dispersion , EPIPTEROUS - EPISCENIUM . EPIPTEROUS , a . ě -
... LIGHT , n . in optics , light acted on by epipolic dispersion , EPIPTEROUS - EPISCENIUM . EPIPTEROUS , a . ě -
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... light . EPITAPH , n . ěp'i - taf [ F. épitaphe — from L. epitaphium -from Gr . epi , upon ; taphos , a tomb , a sepulchre ] : inscrip- tion on a monument or tombstone in memory or honor of the dead . EP'ITAPH'IC , a . -ik , or EP'ITAPH ...
... light . EPITAPH , n . ěp'i - taf [ F. épitaphe — from L. epitaphium -from Gr . epi , upon ; taphos , a tomb , a sepulchre ] : inscrip- tion on a monument or tombstone in memory or honor of the dead . EP'ITAPH'IC , a . -ik , or EP'ITAPH ...
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... LIGHT : in astronomical observations , the allowance to be made for the time occupied by the light in traversing a variable space . The visual ray by which we see any body is not that which it emits at the moment of our seeing it , but ...
... LIGHT : in astronomical observations , the allowance to be made for the time occupied by the light in traversing a variable space . The visual ray by which we see any body is not that which it emits at the moment of our seeing it , but ...
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