SCEPTICISM
\skˈɛptɪsˌɪzəm], \skˈɛptɪsˌɪzəm], \s_k_ˈɛ_p_t_ɪ_s_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
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By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Universal doubt; unbelief. Note.-k and not c in the first syllable should be the spelling in the above words, as being more agreeable to analogy-thus, skeptic, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Doubt; unbelief; infidelity;—act or habit of calling in question, disbelieving, or denying, as a fact, truth, or system of doctrines;—in metaphysics, the doctrines or opinions of the Pyrrhonists, that nothing, even existence, is demonstrably certain; universal doubt;-in theology, doubt or denial of the being of God; atheism; denial of the truth of revelation or of the facts and doctrines of Christianity.
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fasciculus cerebrospinalis anterior
- cerebrospinal fasciculus, Tuerck's direct pyramidal tract, a subdivision anterior funiculus, or white column, of the spinal cord.