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Gravamen Gravedo Graven Gravid Graficidy Gravity Gravitation
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ GRAVAMEN  id+ | A BURDEN or TAX |
            an IMPOSITION or
               IMPOST = FEE DUTY LEVY TAX
                       TOLL TARIFF
~ GRAVE     id+ | HEAVY |
            id+ | TOMB  CATACOMB  |
  TO BURY  also SOMBER SOLEMN SERIOUS or
  IMPORTANT  WEIGHTY  GRAVID
  lat  GRAVIS = HEAVY
  sp   GRAVE    SERIOUS  BURDENSOME also
  skrt GURUS    HEAVY
  ply> | TAXES and GURUS
         MAY BE LIKE A FORCE ENFORCING A
         BURDENSOME IMPOSITION particularly when
         TAXING GRAVIDITY or GRAVES |
  med> GRAVE IMPLIES SEVERE or SERIOUS as in
       "HEAVY"   opp to "LIGHT or SLIGHT"
  art> in music GRAVE is opp to ACUTE as in
            LOW PITCH vs HIGH TONE of SOUND
~ GRAVEDO   med> "COLD" as in A HEAVY HEAD
~ GRAVEN    id+ | WEIGHTY as in IMPORTANT  HEAVY |
            id+ | OBJECTS FOR WORSHIP |
     as in GRAVEN IMAGE implies
     hx> IN THE BIBLE THE SECOND COMMANDMENT DECREES
         "THOU SHALL NOT MAKE UNTO THEE     sug> GRAVE
     ANY GRAVEN IMAGE"                 sug> SOLEMN
     note contrast with ICON        <sug>   ICONOGRAPHY
     JEWS AND MOSLEMS DO NOT ACCEPT IMAGES OF GOD AS DO
          MANY CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS GROUPS
~ GRAVID     id+ | HEAVY |
~ GRAFICIDY
          in sp EMBARAZO or
  lat GRAVIDA
  sp  GRAVIDA    = GRAVIDITY or HEAVY or
  eng EMBARRASSED  ENCUMBERED AS DOES A GESTATION
      EMBARAZOSO   CUMBERSOME      sug> DIGEST
  sp  TUMBAR       FALL
      TUMBA        TOMB
  eng CATACOMB     CRYPT
  lat CATA         FALL  DOWN
                   see> CATACLYSM  see> CATALOG
~ GRAVITY  or GRAVITATION      sug> CATALEPSY
           or PREGNANCY as in GESTATION
  sc> FORCE ATTRACTING MASSIVE BODIES denoted by
      g or G  AT MEAN SEA LEVEL
  THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE OF THE EARTH
  ACCELERATES FALLING BODIES BY 9.8 METERS PER SECOND SQUARED
  ply> | ENTOMB  ENTER  INTERN  INTER  BURROW  BURRY
         may lend a BURIAL A GRAVID or GRAVE GRIEVANCE or
  a DEADLY GRAVIDITY to an already GRAVID and EMBARRASSING
  TAXING ENTOMBMENT |  see> CATA~
  see> AGGRAVATE  sug> GRIEF  sug> GRIEVANCE 
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