For he had not won an exhibition, Vidiadhar who had brought home clean question papers with ticks beside the questions he had done and a neat list of correct answers to the arithmetic sums, who had begun to learn Latin and French, who had gone to the intercollegiate football match and uttered partisan cries.
Definition of Manichaean. 1 : a believer in a syncretistic religious dualism (see dualism 3) originating in Persia in the third century a.d. and teaching the release of the spirit from matter through asceticism. 2 : a believer in religious or philosophical dualism.
Medical Definition of Eschar. Eschar: The scab formed when a wound or skin is sealed by the heat of cautery or burning. Also the dark crusted ulcer (tache noire) at the site of the chigger (mite larva) bite in scrub typhus. Last Editorial Review: 6/9/2016.