Vain+effort
91AGRICULTURE — Il n est pas concevable comment les anciens, qui cultivaient la terre aussi bien que nous, pouvaient imaginer que tous les grains qu ils semaient en terre devaient nécessairement mourir et pourrir avant de lever et produire. Il ne tenait qu à …
92abortion — n. 1. Miscarriage, premature labor, premature delivery. 2. Failure, disappointment, want of success, vain effort or attempt …
93mockery — n. 1. Ridicule, derision, scorn, jeering, contemptuous mimicry. 2. Sport, subject of ridicule. 3. Show, imitation, counterfeit. 4. Vain effort, fruitless labor …
94ALEXANDER° — ALEXANDER°, name of seven popes. The following are the most significant for Jewish history: ALEXANDER II, reigned 1061–73, consistently followed the policy set by Pope gregory the Great at the end of the sixth century of applying suasion rather… …
95KAPPAROT — (Heb. כַּפָּרוֹת, plural of the Heb. כַּפָּרָה, kapparah; expiation ), custom in which the sins of a person are symbolically transferred to a fowl. The custom is practiced in certain Orthodox circles on the day before the day of atonement (in… …
96REHOBOAM — (Heb. רְחַבְעָם; the (divine) kinsman has been generous or the people has expanded ), king of Judah for 17 years (c. 928–911 B.C.E.); son of Solomon by Naamah the Ammonitess (I Kings 14:21; II Chron. 12:13). Rehoboam s name is connected with one… …
97Histoire de la marine française — L histoire de la Marine française couvre la période du XIIIe siècle au XXIe siècle. Elle est marquée par une alternance de hauts et de bas, la Marine française rencontrant au cours de son histoire trois difficultés majeures qui… …
98Conditional preservation of the saints — The Five Articles of Remonstrance Conditional election Unlimited atonement Total depravity …
99ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …
100literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
