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  • DIACONATE
    The office of a deacon.
  • DIACONTUS
    A deacon.
  • DIAGNOSIS
    A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient's illness or the determination of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to be little more than a guess enlightened b$ experience. Swan v. Railroad Co., 79 Hun, 612, 29 N. Y. Supp. More...
  • DIALECTICS
    That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning.
  • DIALLAGE
    A rhetorical figure in which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point Enc. Lond.
  • DIALOGUS DE SCACCARIO.
    Dialogue of or about the exchequer. An ancient treatise on the court of exchequer, attributed by some to Gervase of Tilbury, by others to Richard Fits Nigel, bishop of London in the reign of Richard I. It is quoted, by Lord Coke under the name of Ockham. Crabb, Eng. Law, More...
  • DIANATIC
    A logical reasoning in a pro* gressive manner, proceeding from one subject to another. Enc. Lond.
  • DIARIUM
    Daily food, or as much as will suffice for the day. Du Cange.
  • DIATIM
    In old records. Daily; every day; from day to day. Spelman.
  • DICA
    In old English law. A tally for accounts, by number of cuts, (taillees,) marks, or notches. Cowell. See TALLIA, TALLY.
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