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trait or capability. Epithets were generated by compiling all the words that described the desired trait: cognates and etymons, from languages both living and extinct. By selectively substituting and permuting letters, one could distill from those words their common essence, which was the epithet for that trait. In certain instances

the desired trait: cognates and etymons, from languages both living and extinct. By selectively substituting and permuting

I read about one in France that was grown till it was the size of a fist,

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