He was attacked with complete retention of urine, after a debauch, and six weeks afterwards an abscess formed in the perineum, which eventually burst, leaving a fistulous opening, through which the urine continued to be discharged to the period of his admission into the Hospital.

geomancy … The pretended art of divining future events, or of ascertaining the luckiness or unluckiness of any event or locality, by means of signs connected with the earth … or, as in China, from the configuration and aspect of a particular region in its relation to some other.

Proud to call himself the bagman of the Conservative Party, former senator Irving Gerstein boasted about the financial health of his party Friday.

Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]