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Ne Temere
- - A decree of the Congregation of the Council declaring invalid [so far as the laws of the Roman Catholic Church are concerned] any marriage of a Roman Catholic, or of a person who has ever been a Roman Catholic, if not contracted before a duty qualified priest (or the bishop of the diocese) and at least two witnesses. The decree was issued Aug. 2, 1907, and took effect on Easter Apr. 19, 1908. The decree by its terms does not affect mixed marriages (those between Roman Catholics and persons of another faith) in Germany.
Near Miss
- noun - an accidental collision that is narrowly avoided
Neocomian
- - A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.
Neodamode
- - In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service.
Neodymium
- noun - a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium
Neogamist
- - A person recently married.
Neonomian
- - One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.
Neuromata
- noun - any tumor derived from cells of the nervous system
Neuromere
- - A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
Nevermore
- adverb - at no time hereafter; "Quoth the raven, nevermore!" -E.A.Poe