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Backdating
- verb - make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January"
Bastnasite
- noun - a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements
Belgravian
- - Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.
Belisarius
- noun - Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the Persians
Benthamism
- - That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.
Benthamite
- - One who believes in Benthamism.
Besmearing
- verb - spread or daub (a surface)
Bespeaking
- verb - be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued"
- express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"
Bestialise
- verb - make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to