Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Macaroon:
A coarse, rude, low fellow; whence macaronick poetry, in which the language is purposely corrupted.
Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk in vain.
-Donne
Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk in vain.
-Donne
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Pervicacious
Spitefully obstinate; peevishly contumacious.
"May private devotions be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures!"
Clarissa
"May private devotions be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures!"
Clarissa
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Glance
To Glance:
To censure by oblique hints.
"It was objected against him that he had written verses wherein he glanced at a certain reverend doctor, famous for his dulness."
-Swift.
To censure by oblique hints.
"It was objected against him that he had written verses wherein he glanced at a certain reverend doctor, famous for his dulness."
-Swift.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Opinion
to Opinion:
To opine; to think. A word out of use and unworthy of revival.
"It is opinioned, that the earth rests as the world's centre; while the heavens are the subject of the universal motions.
-Glanville, Scepsis, c. xi
To opine; to think. A word out of use and unworthy of revival.
"It is opinioned, that the earth rests as the world's centre; while the heavens are the subject of the universal motions.
-Glanville, Scepsis, c. xi
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