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CONNOISSEUR is not the same as amateur. Example. Connoisseur, in matters of Painting, or other works based on drawing, encompasses not so much a decided taste for this art, as a certain discernment for judging it. A person can never be a perfect connoisseur...

SOLO, this Italian word is used in French when talking of music, and denotes a piece of music sung by just one voice or played by just one instrument, accompanied only by bass or harpsichord. Nothing is more beautiful than a solo by Tartini; but in order...

Eclecticism. The eclectic is a philosopher who, treading underfoot prejudice, tradition, age, universal agreement, authority, in short everything that subjugates the mass of minds, dares to think for himself, to go back to the clearest general principles...

Eunuch. This word is a synonym of castrated; consequently, it is used to designate a male animal whom art has deprived of the faculty of reproduction. It is the custom, however, to give the name eunuch only to men who have been made to undergo this privation...

Fluor muliebris, by abbreviation for flueurs blanches, λευκόῤῥοια, fluor muliebris, fluor albus. This name is commonly given to any discharge, any efflux, that take place by the path of the menstrual fluids, of matter different from blood and pus.