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• (Chinese philosophy and religion) Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature or way to live one's life.
  "The tao of Lao Tzu was a cosmic tao, inner and unwritten, a tao of Nature, while the tao of Confucius was moral and written."

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• (by extension) The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.
  "the tao of sex... the tao of the heart... the tao of integuments..."
• (historical, obsolete) Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

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• (Chinese philosophy) In Taoism, The Way, specifically the transcendental basis of nature and, and/or the ideal way to live one's life.
  "Nor is progress exclusively a Western invention. Many interpret the Tao of ancient China as a guide for those who wish to progress as they make their way forward in the world—though its conception of progress is very different from what emerged in the West."

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• (historical) a historical region of Georgia (country)