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Barbara

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Bar´ba`ra
n.1.(Logic) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.
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.
See also: Logic


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Down stairs, therefore, Kit went; and at the bottom of the stairs there was such a kitchen as was never before seen or heard of out of a toy-shop window, with everything in it as bright and glowing, and as precisely ordered too, as Barbara herself.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
MY DEAREST BARBARA ALEXIEVNA,--How happy I was last night--how immeasurably, how impossibly happy
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Barbara Ivanovna told me today how our troops are distinguishing themselves.
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