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Latinize
- verb - cause to adopt Catholicism
- translate into Latin
- write in the Latin alphabet; "many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names"
Latitude
- noun - an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
- freedom from normal restraints in conduct; "the new freedom in movies and novels"; "allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money"
- scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
- the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
Laudable
- adjective - Praiseworthy
- worthy of high praise;
Laureate
- adjective - someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath
- worthy of the greatest honor or distinction;
Lausanne
- noun - a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center
Lawrence
- noun - a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
- English actress (1898-1952)
- English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
- English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
- Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
- United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
- Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)
Laxative
- adjective - a mild cathartic
- stimulating evacuation of feces
Lazarite
- - One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.
Lazuline
- noun - a light shade of blue