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| Arthur |
in legend, esp. as codified by Thomas Malory in the sixteenth-century Morte d'Arthur, the King of Britain and the leader of the Knights of the Round Table. |
| dobra |
the chief monetary unit of St. Thomas and Principe, equaling one hundred centimos. [1/2 definitions] |
| Republican Party |
a former political party in the United States, organized by Thomas Jefferson in 1792; Democratic-Republican Party. [1/2 definitions] |
| Thomas More |
an English statesman and writer who was canonized in 1935; St. Thomas More (b.1478--d.1535). |
| Thomism |
the theological and philosophical system of St. Thomas Aquinas, on which thirteenth-century scholasticism was based. |
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