first and last
— Adverb
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~ taking everything together; "she was first and last a scientist"
Fourth Lateran Council
— Noun
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~ the Lateran Council in 1215 was the most important council of the Middle Ages; issued a creed against Albigensianism, published reformatory decrees, promulgated the doctrine of transubstantiation, and clarified church doctrine on the Trinity and Incarnation
First Lateran Council
— Noun
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~ the first council of the Western Church held in the Lateran Palace in 1123; focused on church discipline and made plans to recover the Holy Lands from the Muslim `infidels'
Fifth Lateran Council
— Noun
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~ the council in 1512-1517 that published disciplinary decrees and planned (but did not carry out) a crusade against Turkey
Fraxinus latifolia
— Noun
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~ timber tree of western North America yielding hard light wood; closely related to the red ash
Fort Lauderdale
— Noun
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~ a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations
French lavender
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~ Mediterranean plant with pale purple flowers that yields spike lavender oil
French lavender
— Noun
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~ shrubby greyish lavender of southwestern Europe having usually reddish-purple flowers
Fechner's law
— Noun
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~ (psychophysics) the concept that the magnitude of a subjective sensation increases proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity; based on early work by E. H. Weber