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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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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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).