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Rarefying
- verb - lessen the density or solidity of; "The bones are rarefied"
- make more subtle or refined
- weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
Rarifying
- verb - make more complex, intricate, or richer;
Rarotonga
- unknown - Island of SW Cook Islands
Rascaldom
- - State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively.
Rascality
- noun - reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
- the quality of being a slippery rascal
- the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks
Raskolnik
- - The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church. The Raskolniki embrace many sects, whose common characteristic is a clinging to antique traditions, habits, and customs. The schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to the correctness of the translation of the religious books. The dissenters, who have been continually persecuted, are believed to number about 20,000,000, although the Holy Synod officially puts the number at about 2,000,000. They are officially divided into three groups according to the degree of their variance from orthodox beliefs and observances, as follows: I. Judaizers; the Molokane, who refuse to recognize civil authority or to take oaths; the Dukhobortsy, or Dukhobors, who are communistic, marry without ceremony, and believe that Christ was human, but that his soul reappears at intervals in living men; the Khlysty, who countenance anthropolatory, are ascetics, practice continual
Rasmussen
- noun - Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
Rasp Fern
- noun - any fern of the genus Doodia having pinnate fronds with sharply dentate pinnae