ordalium (plural ordalia)
(obsolete) Trial by ordeal.

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is subversive Christmas carols. And now, on to our question. There's a listener named Kat whose holiday joy is crushed every time she hears the Christmas carol Joy to the World. She asks: Why do we sing 'Joy to the wo

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Word of inspirations 圣灵的感悟 Jake had been an observant catholic and was in the hospital, near death. The family called their priest, to be with them. As the priest stood next to the bed, Jake's condition appeared to deteriorate rapidly and h

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airplanelike
analog shift registers
anerithmoscope
Ardara
artificial mourishment
at the remembrance of
bambusa pachinensis hirsutissima
be descended from
Benvenuto Cellini
bepuffing
birthday-party
bonded-face fabric
buffered i/o
burdea
bus ticket price
by courtesy
camera optical technique
Cardiolyzer
comparates
competitive disadvantage
compound mode of sprinkler arrangement
concrete-bar straightening-cutting machine
corrugated gasket
crowdy crawn
data source name
dexifying
dihedron group
double stream amplifier
dramafest
El Papayo
elapsing
electronic energy
excavator base machine
expenses of embassies and consulates
face lift
failcascade
fannishly
grureful
handlettered
happify
have time on your hands
hepatology
hexadepsipeptides
holiday pay
hypernephroid
ichthyophagi
IDE
jehanne
jettisonable nose
light-emitting element matrix
mamogram
mapgraph
matting property
maximum depression
motor-driven auxiliary teed-water pump
natural direction
navigational flight chart
no right turn sign
non-equilibrium isotopic exchange method
not know if one is coming or going
nystagmogram
Nyuk, Ozero
ostensive definitions
ovariotome
pack tilting device
panel barrier
parauronema sp.
penny-shape crack
phosphorised
picrasmin
poulter's measure
public fund
resorcylagin
rotor cipher
rufipes
Saccoccio
safety cut
scintillation coincidence
sexchange
short circuit ratio of hydrogenerator
sleepy sicknesses
solidistic pathology
split cluster
Stilwater
stretch bender
strobe disc
Strongylina
Strumeshnitsa
submerged centrifugal pump
synaxids
take bribes and bend the law
Tate, John Orley Allen
Tauberbischofsheim
thromb-endarterectomy
transfer common header system
trasse
trued up
turn pin
unredrest
warp lace machine
yobie
zona denticulata