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Stauroscope
Stauroscope Stau"ro*scope, n. [Gr. ? a cross + -scope.] (Crystallog.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.

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- Stauros (σταυρός) is a Gr**** word for a stake or an implement of capital punishment. The Gr**** New Testament uses the word stauros for the instrument of...
- instrument of Jesus' crucifixion (known in Latin as crux, in Gr**** as stauros) is generally taken to have been composed of an upright wooden beam to...
- COPTIC SYMBOL STAUROS. Chi (letter) Christogram Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross Early Christian symbols Gr**** ligatures Stauros Stigma (letter)...
- they imitated, when they set up structures on which men are crucified. Stauros (cross) the vile engine is called, and it derives its vile name from him...
- Theologia Crucis, German: Kreuzestheologie) or staurology (from Gr**** stauros: cross, and -logy: "the study of") is a term coined by the German theologian...
- decussata or saltire). The Gr**** equivalent of Latin crux "stake, gibbet" is stauros, found in texts of four centuries or more before the gospels and always...
- He is also called Stauros (cross), and we frequently meet with references to the figure of Stauros. Speculations about the Stauros are older than Christianity...
- mantled porphyroblastic character. The name is derived from the Gr****, stauros for cross and lithos for stone in reference to the common twinning. Staurolite...
-  1660) wrote in his commentary on the Apostles' Creed that the Gr**** word stauros originally signified "a straight standing Stake, Pale, or Palisador", but...
- writings are ambiguous. The Koine Gr**** terms used in the New Testament are stauros (σταυρός) and xylon (ξύλον). The latter means wood (a live tree, timber...