Barbara
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Bar·ba·ra
(bär′bə-rə, -brə), Saint fl. c. ad 270. Greek Christian whose legendary life and martyrdom formed the basis for many later works of religious art. Her feast, December 4, was dropped from the Catholic liturgical calendar in 1969.
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Barbara
a mnemonic word to represent a syllogistic argument in the first figure, in which there are two universal affirmative premises and a universal affirmative conclusion.
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