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  2. Quiddity - Wikipedia

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    The quiddity of a tree is the collection of characteristics which make it a tree. This is sometimes referred to as "treeness". This idea fell into disuse with the rise of empiricism, precisely because the essence of things, that which makes them what they are, does not correspond to any observables in the world around us.

  3. Papal fanon - Wikipedia

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    The fanon was regularly used until the Second Vatican Council but then fell into disuse, with Pope John Paul II wearing it once in the early 1980s during a visit to Roman convent. [citation needed] On 21 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI wore the fanon during a canonisation Mass, and again on 25 December 2012, and 6 January 2013.

  4. Flabellum - Wikipedia

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    Flabella were originally used liturgically in the West as well as the East, [4] but they fell into disuse for the Mass in the Latin Church about the fourteenth century. [5] Apart from the foregoing liturgical uses, a flabellum, in the shape of a fan, later of an umbrella or canopy, was used as a mark of honour for bishops and princes.

  5. List of archaic technological nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    Other terms were developed by the public to explain the technology that they used. Some of these terms were initially widely used, then fell out of the common vernacular. Others failed to "catch on" and never entered common usage in the first place. Sometimes, the technologies themselves were superseded, and the term fell into disuse.

  6. Coat of arms of Newfoundland and Labrador - Wikipedia

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    Armiger: Charles III in Right of Newfoundland and Labrador: Adopted: 1637/8, fell into disuse, readopted 1928: Crest: Upon a wreath Or and Gules an elk passant upper: Shield: Gules a cross argent, in the first quarter a lion passant gardant crowned Or in the second quarter a Unicorn passant argent armed maned and unguled Or gorged with a crown a chain affixed thereto passing between his ...

  7. Qere and Ketiv - Wikipedia

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    When the old Hebrew dialect fell into disuse and certain words became unfamiliar to the masses, the scribes amended the original dialect to the later familiar dialect. A good example is the word "Jerusalem," which in old Hebrew was always written ירושלם, but in a later period was written ירושלים.

  8. List of occult symbols - Wikipedia

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    As symbol, it was incorporated into the Greek Tetractys by Jewish Kabbalistic occult tradition as an evolving arrangement of ten letters. In gematria, YHWH has a numerical value of 72 (center image). The right image contains the Tetragrammaton in tetractys formation, accompanied by the late-Renaissance Pentagrammaton, below. Tree of Life (Kabbalah)

  9. Maniple (vestment) - Wikipedia

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    The maniple is an article of liturgical dress used in the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Holy Mass of the Roman Rite. It fell into disuse in the years of the post-conciliar reform, even though it was never abrogated. [3] A maniple embroidered with a cross, shown when worn with a chasuble and other vestments