Literally "God out of a machine", it's the Latin phrase for an unlikely & providential intervention
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Latin phrases glossary and listing - common and interesting Latin ...  Latin terminology, expressions and phrases feature widely in the English language. ... Its resilience would be extraordinary were Latin a living language. ... the sciences, therefore Latin has been crucial also to innovation, invention, exploration, ..... deus ex machina, god out of a machine, person/thing/event which suddenly...
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Word 1  Latin praecox, which means premature, or literally, ripening before its time. ...... or proof of involvement in a wrongful act. You can see all but ...... Synonyms of provident include prudent, word 47 of Level 1, and frugal, ...... sluggish verbal development is unlikely to improve your chances of ...... literally a god out of a machine.
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Full text of "A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical ...  For example, how common is the use of such Latin phrases as: Deus ex .... a few words or lines have been taken from a passage too long to quote in its ...... Judges must interpret the law literally. ... By the favour of heaven ; by the favour of Providence. ..... (A god out of a machine.) ...... Ne- cessity is the mother of invention.
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A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek, Latin, and modern ...  "A word is enough to the wise;" literally, "To one of quick apprehension half a ..... For youth is facile, and its yielding will Receives, with fatal ease, the imprint of ill. ...... Half our troubles are half our invention, And often from blessings conferred ...... Providence so curtails the means of the malicious, as to make them fall short...
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Full text of "A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek, Latin, and ...  Fr. prov^- word is enough to the wise;" llternlly, "To one of quick apprehe half a .... These are phrases, which, are ased in logical argument, to denote a reference to its ...... Atiagrammatiatit means, literally, the art of writing backwards  in whioh ..... or record of his universal invention or exqui- site skill, of his vigor of genius,...
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exorcism English definition/translation - seadict.com  Translations of exorcism. exorcism synonyms, exorcism antonyms. ... noun [MASS NOUN] the expulsion or attempted expulsion of an evil spirit from a ... CATHARSIS, cleansing, purification, purgation, release, deliverance; rare ... In Christianity, a ceremony used to drive demons out of a person they have .... dispossession.
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Magic - Wikiquote  Anonymous saying, this is an inversion of the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any ... Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce, it's a magic trick. ... All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been it is lying as in magic preservation in the ... This change can occur 1) in the outer, manifest world; 2) in the magician's...
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God helps those who help themselves - Blogging Theologically  Jul 8, 2009 ... One of the earliest forms of this saying goes back to Aesop's fable, Hercules and the Waggoner, where the moral of the story is the gods help them that help themselves. ... Does God really help those who help themselves?
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Deus ex machina - Wikipedia  Deus ex machina (Latin: [des ks ma.k.na]: /de.s ks mkin/ or /dis ks mkn/; plural: dei ex machina) is a Latin calque from Greek    (ap mkhans thes), meaning "god from the machine". The term has evolved to mean a plot device whereby a seemingly ... The idea was introduced by Aeschylus and was used often to resolve the...
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cioccahistory / Uncle Tom's Cabin (6)  "This is God's curse on slavery!--a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!--a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything...
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What E Pluribus Unum Means - Today I Found Out  Mar 22, 2012 ... This Latin phrase was once the United States' motto and can be found on the ... from other sources (hence the word magazine, meaning storehouse, ... as you'll see on the back of the one dollar bill since the 1930s. .... because now they have "In God we trust " knowing full well that they don't trust God!
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To surrender, to give up all resistance, from the Latin word for  Jeopardy Question: VOCABULARY - To surrender, to give up all resistance, from the Latin word for "small head"
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jeopardy/2522_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ... It's done with indoctrination & persuasion, not soap & water | Brainwashing ... PUMP YOU UP | This manufacturer of fitness equipment shares its name with a...
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Dominus Illuminatio Mea  Oct 5, 2015 ... It can indeed be messy, but that by no means negates the deep .... for me, because the pathos of God is something I sometimes struggle with.
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PASS Acta 16 - Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences  Dec 21, 2000 ... In the words of Benedict XVI, '...the crisis, its solutions, and any new development ...... lives in the dimension of authentic meaning. Gloria Dei ...... It did not come to this point because the major governments and cen- tral banks ...... imitation in good weather periods rather than a conscious or even conspir-.
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Latin Phrases and Words - The Tips Bank  commonly used Latin Phrases and Words. ... ad hominem - according to the person ... agenda - things to be done ... The one who derives advantage from the crime is the one most likely to have committed it. ... The Lord be with you. ... or from grace (referring to someone performing an act out of kindness as opposed to being...
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Defenestration | Define Defenestration at Dictionary.com  1620, "the action of throwing out of a window," from Latin fenestra "window" (see fenestration). A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague,"...
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#thatwastheHolySpirit : TheFacebookDelusion - Reddit  Sep 23, 2015 ... Take a screenshot, and submit it here! .... "The Pipe Organ," a clue may be "A common expression refers to "pulling out all" of these knobs.
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Allusions 33-45  This is a Latin phrase, which literally means into the middle of things. ... The phrase can refer to anything that begins abruptly, in the middle of the action, or can be used in its ... In several of the gospels, the story is told of Jesus preaching to a crowd of thousands. ... pig in a poke describes buying something sight unseen.
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Exorcism - New Advent  Exorcism is (1) the act of driving out, or warding off, demons, or evil spirits, from ... the efficacy of magical charms and incantations for banishing or dispelling them. .... The only early Western witness which treats unction as part of the baptismal...
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Interjections!!! - Classical Music Forums - Talk Classical  can mean a) it's too hot or b) there's a whiff of strong cheese or c) I got away with it. .... drat (from Christ, Jesus, God blind me, Lord love me, God rot you). ... I always thought 'struth' was a contraction of '(God')s truth', Ingelou...