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Dialysis
Language; Encyclopedias
The process of separating the crystalloid or poisonous ingredients in a substance from the colloid or harmless ingredients.
Diamantina
Language; Encyclopedias
A district in Brazil, in the province of Minas Geraes, rich in diamonds.
Dion Cassius
Language; Encyclopedias
A Greek historian, born at Nicaea, in Bithynia, about A.D. 155; went to Rome, and served under a succession of emperors; wrote a "History of Rome" from Aeneas to Alexander Severus in 80 books, of ...
Dione
Language; Encyclopedias
A Greek goddess of the earlier mythology; figures as the wife of the Dodonian Zeus; drops into subordinate place after his nuptials with Hera.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Language; Encyclopedias
A Greek historian and rhetorician of the age of Augustus; came to Italy in 29 B.C., and spent 27 years in Rome, where he died; devoted himself to the study of the Roman republic, its history and its ...
Dion of Syracuse
Language; Encyclopedias
A pupil of Plato, and an austere man; was from his austerity obnoxious to his pleasure-loving nephew, Dionysius the Younger; subjected to banishment; went to Athens; learned his estates had been ...
