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fleet: a large fleet of ships
[ Mid-16th century. Via Spanish < medieval Latin armata (see army) ] |
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flamboyant style of architecture and art: the baroque style of architecture and art, or its period in European history
2. highly ornamented 17C music: highly ornamented music of the 17th century written by composers such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Telemann |
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| a person who committed heresy.a controversial or novel change to a system of beliefs, especially a religion, that conflicts with established dogma |
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a. A political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler or other authority.
b. A form of government in which all power is vested in a single ruler or other authority. |
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| A persistent increase in the level of consumer prices or a persistent decline in the purchasing power of money, caused by an increase in available currency and credit beyond the proportion of available goods and services. |
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| a series of hearings before county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft |
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| a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God. |
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| A male monarch or emperor, |
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| A member of a class of higher Russian nobility that until the time of Peter I headed the civil and military administration of the country and participated in an early duma. |
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| An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of elements such as scale and perspective. |
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| those rights granted to human-kind by their Creator, or as Jefferson put it in the Declaration of Independence—essentially borrowing from John Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690)—the rights accorded by "Nature and Nature's God." |
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| were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. |
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