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  2. Bæddel and bædling - Wikipedia

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    bæddel translating the Latin Anareporesis, i. homo utriusque generis in the Antwerp-London Glossaries The canons about bædlings in the Old English Canons of Theodore. Bæddel and bædling are Old English [a] terms referring to some category of gender, sex, or sexuality outside the norm of Anglo-Saxon England, although their precise meaning and scope are debated by scholars.

  3. Enfilade and defilade - Wikipedia

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    The strategies, named by the English during the Hundred Years' War, use the French enfiler ("to put on a string or sling") and défiler ("to slip away or off") spoken by English nobility of the time. [2] Enfilade fire—gunfire directed against an enfiladed formation or position—is also commonly known as "flanking fire". [1]

  4. Ordeal of the bitter water - Wikipedia

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    The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has ...

  5. Leviticus 18 - Wikipedia

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    English וְאֶ֨ת־ ‎ wə-'eṯ-And DOM: זָכָ֔ר ‎ zā-ḵār, a male לֹ֥א ‎ lō: not תִשְׁכַּ֖ב ‎ ṯīš-kaḇ: you shall lie down מִשְׁכְּבֵ֣י ‎ mīš-kə-ḇē: beds of/coitally [a] אִשָּׁ֑ה ‎ 'īš-šā; a woman תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה ‎ tō-'ē-ḇā: an abomination הִֽוא׃ ‎ hī' it

  6. Abyzou - Wikipedia

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    Although Abyzou is regarded mainly as a threat to child-bearing women and to infants, some of the names of those seeking protection from her on extant amulets are masculine. [15] Medieval amulets show a variation on this iconography, with Abyzou trampled underfoot by a horseman. The rider is identified again either as Solomon or Arlaph; one ...

  7. Kapu (Hawaiian culture) - Wikipedia

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    Taro (body form of the god Kāne) was kapu for women to cook and prepare. Some large fish were also kapu for women to eat. Isabella Abbott, a leading ethnobotanist of Hawaii, theorizes that because of the limited "noa" (free) diet for Hawaiian women, seaweeds were relied upon more heavily for Hawaiians than other Pacific islands. [3]

  8. Rassenschande - Wikipedia

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    Racial defilement is racial death. Racial defilement is bloodless murder. A woman defiled by the Jew can never rid her body of the foreign poison she has absorbed. She is lost to her people." [56] The League of German Girls was particularly regarded as instructing girls to avoid racial defilement. [56]

  9. Corpse uncleanness - Wikipedia

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    Corpse uncleanness (Hebrew: tum'at met) is a state of ritual uncleanness described in Jewish halachic law.It is the highest grade of uncleanness, or defilement, known to man and is contracted by having either directly or indirectly touched, carried or shifted a dead human body, [1] or after having entered a roofed house or chamber where the corpse of a Jew is lying (conveyed by overshadowing).