a movement based upon the conviction that moral tenets need not be grounded in religious or philosophical dogma. Ethical culture has sought to promote social welfare through community effort. The ...
in Indonesian history, a program introduced by the Dutch in the East Indies at the turn of the 20th century aimed at promoting the welfare of the indigenous Indonesians (Javanese). ...
the doctrine that there are no absolute truths in ethics and that what is morally right or wrong varies from person to person or from society to society.
the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles.
landlocked country on the Horn of Africa. It shares frontiers with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, and The Sudan ...
vocal liturgical music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in eastern Africa. A musical notation for Ethiopian chant introduced in the 16th century is called melekket and consists of characters from ...
writings either in classical Ge'ez (Ethiopic) or in Amharic, the principal modern language of Ethiopia. The earliest extant literary works in Ge'ez are translations of Christian religious writings from Greek, ...
independent Christian patriarchate in Ethiopia holding to Monophysite (q.v.) doctrine, that is, that Christ has only one nature. The church recognizes the honorary primacy of the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria. ...
highlands covering much of Ethiopia and central Eritrea. They consist of the rugged Western Highlands and the more limited Eastern Highlands. The two sections are separated by the vast Eastern ...
one of the major land areas of the world defined on the basis of its characteristic animal life. Part of the Paleotropical, or Afro-Tethyan, realm, it encompasses Africa south of ...
religious movement among sub-Saharan Africans that embodied the earliest stirrings toward religious and political freedom in the modern colonial period. The movement was initiated in the 1880s when South African ...
writing system used to write the Ge'ez literary and ecclesiastical language and the Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Apparently derived from Sabaean, a South Semitic script, ...
the Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, including Ge'ez, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; Amharic, one of the principal languages of modern Ethiopia; Tigre; Tigrinya, or Tigrai; ...
the attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups. Ethnic cleansing sometimes involves the removal of all physical ...
a social group or category of the population that, in a larger society, is set apart and bound together by common ties of race, language, nationality, or culture.
systematic study of the botanical knowledge of a social group and its use of locally available plants in foods, medicines, clothing, or religious rituals. Rudimentary drugs derived from plants used ...
descriptive study of a particular human society or the process of making such a study. Contemporary ethnography is based almost entirely on fieldwork and requires the complete immersion of the ...
that part of anthropological linguistics concerned with the study of the interrelation between a language and the cultural behaviour of those who speak it. Several controversial questions are involved in ...
scientific study of music in any world culture or subculture in terms of its actual sounds and performance practices, in its relation to the specific culture, and in comparison with ...
the study of animal behaviour. Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behaviour through the centuries, the modern science of ethology is usually considered to have arisen as a ...
in rhetoric, the character or emotions of a speaker or writer that are expressed in the attempt to persuade an audience. It is distinguished from pathos, which is the emotion ...
an ester widely used as an intermediate in the synthesis of many varieties of organic chemical compounds. Industrially it is employed in the manufacture of synthetic drugs and dyes.
a member of a class of organic compounds that are given the general name alcohols; its molecular formula is C2H5OH. Ethyl alcohol is an important industrial chemical; it is used ...
colourless, flammable, mobile liquid of low boiling point, belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds and principally used in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead; it has uses as a ...
well-known anesthetic, commonly called simply ether, an organic compound belonging to a large group of compounds called ethers; its molecular structure consists of two ethyl groups linked through an oxygen ...
the simplest member of the olefinic hydrocarbon series and one of the most important raw materials of the organic chemical industry; chemical formula, CH2 &doublehorzbond; CH2. It occurs in both ...
a colourless, sweet-smelling, nonflammable, toxic liquid belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds, principally used in conjunction with lead-containing anti-knock agents as a component of gasoline.
a colourless, toxic, volatile liquid belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds and having an odour resembling that of chloroform. It was formerly important as a solvent and as ...
system of rules and conventions that regulate social and professional behaviour. In any social unit there are accepted rules of behaviour upheld and enforced by legal codes; there are also ...
active volcano on the east coast of Sicily. The name comes from the Greek Aitne, from aitho, "I burn." Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe, its topmost elevation ...
former city (1967-98), southeastern Ontario, Canada. In 1998 it amalgamated with the cities of North York, Scarborough, York, and Toronto and the borough of East York to become the City ...
town ("parish"), Windsor and Maidenhead unitary authority, historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, across the River Thames from Windsor. It is renowned for Eton College, the largest of the great public ...
in Eton, Berkshire, largest public school (independent secondary school) in England and one of the highest in prestige. It was founded by Henry VI in 1440-41 for 70 highly qualified ...
extremely flat salt pan, northern Namibia, covering an area of approximately 1,900 square miles (4,800 square km) at an elevation of about 3,400 feet (1,030 m). This enormous expanse of ...
one of four species of plants used during the Jewish celebration of Sukkoth (Feast of Booths), a festival of gratitude to God for the bounty of the earth that is ...
member of an ancient people of Etruria, in Italy (between the Tiber and Arno rivers west and south of the Apennines), whose urban civilization reached its height in the 6th ...
language isolate spoken by close neighbours of the ancient Romans. The Romans called the Etruscans Etrusci or Tusci; in Greek they were called Tyrsenoi or Tyrrhenoi; in Umbrian and Italic ...
municipality, Brabant province, central Belgium. First mentioned in the early 12th century, Etterbeek is one of the 19 suburban communes that, with Brussels proper, make up Greater Brussels. Primarily industrial, ...
(French: "study"), in music, originally a study or technical exercise, later a complete and musically intelligible composition exploring a particular technical problem in an esthetically satisfying manner. Although a number ...
the history of a word or word element, including its origins and derivation. Although the etymologizing of proper names appears in the Old Testament and Plato dealt with etymology in ...
any of a group of true bacteria, one of two major groups of prokaryotic organisms. The other group, the archaebacteria, are as different from eubakteria as either is from the ...
island, the largest in Greece, after Crete. In the Aegean Sea, it forms with the island of Skyros to the northwest, the nomos (department) of Euboea, whose ...
arm of the Aegean Sea, between the island of Euboea (northeast) and the Greek mainland (southwest). Trending northwest-southeast, the gulf is divided by the narrow Strait of Euripus, at the ...
a member of the Megarian school of philosophy in Athens and renowned as an inventor of logical paradoxes, the most famous of which is "The Liar" ("Does a man who ...
large genus of mostly very large trees, of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), native to Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and nearby islands. More than 500 species have been described. In Australia ...
a Christian sacrament commemorating the action of Jesus at his Last Supper with his disciples, when he gave them bread saying, "This is my body," and wine saying, "This is ...
card game popular in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Great Britain, especially in Cornwall and the West Country of England. It derives from a 19th-century Alsatian game called ...
artesian depression in Western Australia and South Australia, Australia. Sloping southward to the Great Australian Bight and underlying the enormous limestone waste of the Nullarbor Plain, its area is about ...
city, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on Lake Erie, just northeast of Cleveland. The original township area was settled in 1798 and was named for the famous Greek mathematician by ...
procedure for finding the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two numbers, described by the Greek mathematician Euclid in his Elements (c. 300 BC). The method is computationally ...
the study of plane and solid figures on the basis of axioms and theorems employed by the Greek mathematician Euclid (c. 300 BC). In its rough outline, Euclidean geometry is ...
order of dicotyledonous flowering plants comprising the single species Eucommia ulmoides (family Eucommiaceae). It is an elmlike tree of central and eastern China notable as a woody plant of temperate ...
king of Bactria, who reigned from c. 170/165 to c. 159 BC. Little is known of his reign. According to some scholars, he was a cousin of the Seleucid king ...
rock that contains 30 to 35 percent calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar (bytownite or anorthite), as well as augite, hypersthene, pigeonite, and olivine. The name was given (1863) by Gustav Rose to ...
genus of evergreen shrubs and trees, constituting the family Eucryphiaceae, with about five species native to Australia and Chile. They are planted in warm regions for their foliage and showy ...
one of Australia's largest reservoirs (capacity 3,890,000 acre-feet [4,798,000,000 cubic m], surface area 56 square miles [145 square km]), the major storage facility of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme, in ...
in ethics, a self-realization theory that makes happiness or personal well-being the chief good for man. The Greek word eudaimonia means literally "the state of having a good indwelling spirit, ...
founder of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (Eudist Fathers), an order dedicated to the training of candidates for the priesthood and to the preaching of missions.
wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II. She was a highly cultured woman who exercised great influence over her husband until her withdrawal from Constantinople.
Greek mathematician and astronomer who substantially advanced proportion theory, contributed to the identification of constellations and thus to the development of observational astronomy in the Greek world, and established the ...
Greek navigator and explorer who made the first known attempt to circumnavigate Africa from western Europe. Following two successful voyages to India from the Red Sea for the king of ...
city, seat (1907) of McIntosh county, east-central Oklahoma, U.S., near the confluence of the Canadian and North Canadian rivers, southwest of Muskogee. It originated as a Creek settlement and trading ...
