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This 14th century banknote has the grand name ‘Great Ming Circulating Treasure Certificate’. It was the Chinese who first printed a value on a piece of paper and persuaded everyone that it was worth what it said it was. The whole modern banking system of paper and credit is built on this one simple act of faith.

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From the 17th century to the 20th there was apparently great communal tarantism, in which whole towns would suddenly give themselves over to wild dancing, and the musicians had a profitable time.
His study of tarantism, for instance, ignored traditional academic boundaries, making use of a team of scholars - a psychologist, a musicologist, a sociologist - with himself in the guiding position as historian-ethnologist.
In many families naming tarantism was taboo, reflecting this ambiguity between condemnation and belief. 

an act of faith

an act or deed demonstrating religious faith; an act or deed showing trust in someone or something. For him to trust you with his safetywas a real act of faith.

tarantism

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Pronunciation: /ˈtar(ə)nˌtɪz(ə)m /

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

• A psychological illness characterized by an extreme impulse to dance, prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, and widely believed at the time to be caused by the bite of a tarantula.
  

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Origin

mid 17th century: from Italian tarantismo, from the name of the seaport Taranto, after which the tarantula is also named. Compare with tarantella.

profess
Line breaks: pro|fessPronunciation: /prəˈfɛs /

Definition of profess in English:

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Claim, often falsely, that one has (a quality or feeling):he had professed his love for her only to walk away[WITH INFINITIVE]: I don’t profess to be an expert[WITH COMPLEMENT]: (profess oneself) he professed himself amazed at the boy’s ability

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1.1archaic Have or claim knowledge or skill in (a subject or accomplishment):though knowing little of the arts I professed, heproved a natural adept

2Affirm one’s faith in or allegiance to (a religion or set of beliefs):a people professing Christianity

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2.1(be professed) Be received into a religious order under vows:she entered St Margaret’s Convent, and was professed in 1943

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3archaic or humorous Teach (a subject) as a professor:a professor—what does he profess?

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Origin

Middle English (as be professed 'be received into a religious order'): from Latin profess- 'declared publicly', from the verb profiteri, from pro- 'before' + fateri'confess'.

tarantism

  

音節

tar • ant • ism

発音

tǽrəntìzm

[名][U]タラント病, 舞踏病：15-17世紀に南イタリアで流行した. ⇒TARANTULA 2

tarantula

捕鳥蛛屬於較原始之蜘蛛，其全身密生細毛。亦稱為大蘭多毒蛛。南美洲及北美洲捕鳥蛛身上某些地方可能具一種刺激性的短毛，遇到老鼠等敵物便向敵物用後腳掃散這種自然的致癢粉。敵物之反應如工人鋪設纖維玻璃毛氈後，全身會發癢。因可使用這種護身方式，未必有亞洲等地捕鳥蛛那麼會咬。美洲捕鳥蛛，毒性因此常低於亞洲等地的。