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Bullition
- - The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition.
By Nature
- adverb - through inherent nature; "he was naturally lazy"
Byzantine
- adjective - a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
- of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"
Byzantium
- noun - a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
- an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital
C Battery
- noun - battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube
C-Section
- noun - the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way)
Cacoethes
- noun - an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Cadasters
- noun - a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation