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branch of a religious order whose members are lay people following the avocations of a secular life; member of a Third Order who follows its rule in the community under ordinary simple vows

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  • Does that make you a third-order scumbag for adding to the post count?
  • The Steinhart-Hart equation is a widely used third-order approximation:
  • But this raises the question: Can third-order mutual knowledge that A1, A 2, and
  • I'm sending that to my Dad, who is both a punster and a third-order Benedictine.
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