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Scheme

is something entertained. Scheme is a Greek word meaning what is had or held (scheʹo); and entertain is the Latin tenco, to have or hold, also.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Scarlet Woman
Scavenger’s Daughter
Sceatta
Scene Painters
Scene Plot
Scent
Sceptic (Greek)
Sceptre
Scheherazade [She-he-ra-zay-de]
Scheltrum
Scheme
Schiedam
Schiites
Schlemihl (Peter)
Scholastic
Scholastic Divinity
Schools
Schoolmaster Abroad (The)
Schoolmen
Schoolmistress (The)
Scian

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