(n.) That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
(n.) An association; a league or confederacy.
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Hanseatic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy.
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(1) The article is based on hitherto unpublished sources from the former Prussian State Archives at Merseburg, GDR, and the State Archive of the Hanseatic City of Bremen.
(2) The "Institute of Hygiene" of the Hanseatic town of Lübeck was founded in 1946 by Prof. Dr. Franz Schültz on account of the then prevailing epidemic situation mainly caused by the rapid spread of typhoid fever.
(3) The death rate was clearly lower among the Germans at the Hanseatic Office than in the Norwegian city population.