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. [ ] one of the earliest such definitions is that of , where the legal definition of the inch was set out in a statute of edward ii of england , defining it as "three grains of barley , dry and round, placed end to end, lengthwise". [ ] similar definitions are recorded in both english and welsh medieval
of rainfall statistics" . australia: bureau of meteorology . retrieved june . ^ "of human understanding", the works of john locke esq., vol. i , london: john churchill, , p. . ^ goetz, hans-werner; jarnut, jörg; pohl, walter ( ). regna and gentes: the relationship between late antique and early medieval...
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quiddity, with its conflicting senses, "the essential nature of a thing" and "a trifling nicety of subtle distinction," ultimately comes from the medieval latin noun quidditās (stem quidditāt-), literally "whatness," formed from the latin interrogative pronoun quid "what" and the abstract noun suffix
quiddity, with its conflicting senses, "the essential nature of a thing" and "a trifling nicety of subtle distinction," ultimately comes from the medieval latin noun quidditās (stem quidditāt-), literally "whatness," formed from the latin interrogative pronoun quid "what" and the abstract noun suffix...
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