| NOUN | act | Scopes trial | a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school |
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| Meaning | A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed. | |
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| Category | evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis | (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms |
| law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority | |
| Broader | trial | (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law |
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