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Diamond Necklace
Language; Encyclopedias
A necklace consisting of 500 diamonds, and worth £80,000, which one Madame de la Motte induced the jeweller who "made" it to part with for Marie Antoinette, on security of Cardinal de Rohan, and ...
Dialogues of Plato
Language; Encyclopedias
Philosophical dialogues, in which Socrates figures as the principal interlocutor, although the doctrine expounded is rather Plato's than his master's; they discuss theology, psychology, ethics, ...
Diana
Language; Encyclopedias
Originally an Italian deity, dispenser of light, identified at length with the Greek goddess Artemis, and from the first with the moon; she was a virgin goddess, and spent her time in the chase, ...
Diamond Net
Language; Encyclopedias
A name given in the Hegelian philosophy to "the connective tissue, so to speak, that not only supports, but even in a measure constitutes, the various organs" of the universe. See Hegelianism.
Diamond
Language; Encyclopedias
The name of Newton's favourite dog that, by upsetting a lamp, set fire to MSS. containing notes of experiments made over a course of years, an irreparable loss.
Diamante
Language; Encyclopedias
A Spanish dramatic poet, who plagiarised Corneille's "Cid" and passed it off as original; born 1826.
