opuscule

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[73] Yet neither he nor any one else on his side has ever effectively shaken the solid argument which Diderot fancifully illustrated in the following passage from his reply to Voltaire's letter of thanks for the opuscule: "This marvellous order and these wondrous adaptations, what am I to think of them?

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  1. Latin opusculum, diminutive of opus, work; see opus.

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  1. from French opuscule = Spanish opúsculo = Portuguese opusculo = Italian opusculo, opuscolo, from Latin opusculum, a little work, from opus, a work: see opus.
 

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/əˈpəskjul/
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