casting off
111Tashlikh — (Hebrew: תשליך, meaning casting off ) is a long standing Jewish practice performed on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The previous year s sins are symbolically cast off by throwing pieces of bread, or a similar food item,… …
112Ma'alim fi al-Tariq — Milestones   Author(s) Sayyid Qutb …
113Cultural cringe — Cultural cringe, in cultural studies and social anthropology, is an internalized inferiority complex which causes people in a country to dismiss their own culture as inferior to the cultures of other countries. It is closely related, although not …
114Henry Wilde — Early lifeHenry Wilde was christened at the Loxley Congragational Chapel in Bradfield, Yorkshire on 24 October 1872. He was the son of Henry Wilde, an Insurance Suveyor from Ecclesfield South Yorkshire. His mother was Elizabeth Tingle of Loxley,… …
115Modern liberalism in the United States — This article discusses liberalism as that term is used in the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. For the history and development of American liberalism, see Liberalism in the United States. For the origin and worldwide use of the term… …
116Herbert Pitman — Early life and careerPitman was born in the village of Sutton Montis near Castle Cary, Somerset, England. He was the son of farmer Henry Pitman and his wife, Sarah Marchant Pitman. After Henry s death in 1880, Sarah remarried to Charles Candy. In …
117De Rays Expedition — A map of de Rays Mythical Empire of La Nouvelle France The Third de Rays Expedition, or simply the de Rays Expedition, was the third New Guinea expedition of Marquis de Rays, a French nobleman who attempted to start a colony in the South… …
118Gide, André — Gide (zhēd), André. 1869 1951. French writer noted for his diaries and novels, such as The Immoralist (1902) and Lafcadio s Adventures (1914), which examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often disapproving society. He won the… …
119crab — crab1 crablike, adj. /krab/, n., v., crabbed, crabbing. n. 1. any decapod crustacean of the suborder Brachyura, having the eyes on short stalks and a short, broad, more or less flattened body, the abdomen being small and folded under the thorax.… …
120repudiate — repudiable, adj. repudiative, adj. repudiator, n. /ri pyooh dee ayt /, v.t., repudiated, repudiating. 1. to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim. 2. to cast off or disown: to repudiate a son. 3. to reject with… …
