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Asturias
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An ancient province in the N. of Spain, gives title to the heir to the crown, rich in minerals, and with good fisheries; now named Oviedo, from the principal town.
Asuncion
Language; Encyclopedias
Or Assumption, the capital of Paraguay, on the left bank of the Paraguay, so called from having been founded by the Spaniards on the Feast of the Assumption in 1535.
Astrology
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A science founded on a presumed connexion between the heavenly bodies and human destiny as more or less affected by them, a science at one time believed in by men of such intelligence as Tacitus and ...
Astral spirits
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Spirits believed to animate or to people the heavenly bodies, to whom worship was paid, and to hover unembodied through space exercising demonic influence on embodied spirits.
Astyanax
Language; Encyclopedias
The son of Hector and Andromache; was cast down by the Greeks from the ramparts after the fall of Troy, lest he should live and restore the city.
Astral body
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An ethereal body believed by the theosophists to invest the animal, to correspond to it, and to be capable of Bilocation.
Astrakhan
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A Russian trading town on the Volga, 40 m. from its mouth in the Caspian Sea, of which it is the chief port.
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