"Collectanea" is a word in ENGLISH
Passages selected from various authors, usually for
purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.
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There was a huge fire at a big city soda factory. The city company was losing ground and the owner wasfrantic. He told the fire department that he needed a secret formula in the safe that was in the center of theblaze, and he would give 10,000 dollars to the department that got the formula. An hour later no ground wasgained and a mutual aid call was put out. When 12 departments couldn't subdue the blaze the owner saw thishe raised the reward to 100,000 dollars. Suddenly a small town department drove their truck right into the fireand emerged 10 minutes later with the formula. When asked what they would do with the money one said,"Get them damn brakes fixed we figure."
A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.
Read the complete definitionA selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.
Read the complete definitionA selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service.
Read the complete definitionAn extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.
Read the complete definitionTo take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
Read the complete definitionA half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, …
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