Cyclopædia
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AUSTRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSTRAL
six last signs of the zodiac; so called, because they are on the south-side of the equinoctial. The word is derived from auster, the south-wind. See AUSTER. AUSTRAL
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AUSTERITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSTERITY
AUSTERITY, in a moral sense, signifies severity, or a rigid carriage and deportment in any thing. Thus we say, austerity of manners; the austerities of the monastic life. The austerity of the Roman censors kept the people in their duty. The greatest...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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