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The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from katabolism.
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A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate.
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An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place.
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A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
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That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics.
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A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.
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A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.
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