Sauerteig
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Sauerteig (i. e. leaven), an imaginary authority alive to the "celestial infernal" fermentation that goes on in the world, who has an eye specially to the evil elements at work, and to whose opinion Carlyle frequently appeals in his condemnatory verdict on sublunary things.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.