* He compared after-taste, the perfume or fragrance of food, to musical harmonics ( Meditation ii ): " but for the odor which is felt in the back of the mouth, the sensation of taste would be but obtuse and imperfect.

Of northern Europe his knowledge was imperfect, but he speaks of a great bay (" Codanus sinus ") to the north of Germany, among whose many islands was one, " Codanovia ," of pre-eminent size ; this name reappears in Pliny the Elder's work as Scatinavia.

It ultimately derives from Ancient Greek atelís ( ἆτελής, " imperfect ") + pús ( πούς, " foot ") + Latin forma (" external form "), the Greek part in reference to the reduced pectoral and ventral fins of the jellynoses.

On this revisionist Htrae, Superman encounters Bizarro duplicates of Jor-El (" Le-Roj ") and an imperfect clone of Bizarro himself ( Zibarro, who is essentially a powerless, rational human ).

There is a break in continuity just before the fourth variation in the `` Forellen '' movement, and I suspect that this is due to imperfect splicing between sides of the original Aj.

'' Private Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Wisconsin Light Artillery wrote in his diary: `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right, found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe, their ignorance being little less than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect.

) Spanish has similar pairs for certain verbs, such as ( imperfect and preterite, respectively ) sabía " I knew " vs. supe " I found out ", podía " I was able to " vs. pude " I succeeded ( in doing something )", quería " I wanted to " vs. quise " I tried to ", no quería " I did not want to " vs. no quise " I refused ( to do something )".

* " I Am Going to Like It Here " by Oscar Hammerstein ( and Richard Rodgers ) ( imperfect pantoum from the musical Flower Drum Song )

Ehyeh is usually translated " I will be ", since the imperfect tense in Hebrew denotes actions that are not yet completed ( e. g. Exodus 3: 12, " Certainly I will be with thee .").

After their Defeat the Rebels retired to the Isle aux Noix, where they continued till lately, sending out some Parties, and many Emissaries, to debauch the Minds of the Canadians and Indians, in which they have proved too successful, and for which they were too well prepared by the Cabals and Intrigues of these two last years ; We knew of their being reinforced, and very considerably, I suppose, as they appeared in Numbers near St. John's last Sunday Evening ; where or when they landed, or the Particulars since, we have but very imperfect Accounts of, all Communications with the Forts of St. John's and Chambli, being, as far as I can find, entirely cut off.

Gram was a modest man, and in his initial publication he remarked " I have therefore published the method, although I am aware that as yet it is very defective and imperfect ; but it is hoped that also in the hands of other investigators it will turn out to be useful.

" I am the walrus ( E chord ), " goo goo g ' joob " hanging as an imperfect cadence until resolved with the I ( A chord ) on " Mr City Policeman.

According to Singer, Aquinas held that conscience, or conscientia was an imperfect process of judgment applied to activity because knowledge of the natural law ( and all acts of natural virtue implicit therein ) was obscured in most people by education and custom that promoted selfishness rather than fellow-feeling ( Summa Theologiae, I – II, I ).

I read the approaching fate of the Constitution in his sullen expression, in the imperfect manner in which the oath was administered, and in the strange and general appearance of hurry and concealment.

This synchronisation was inevitably imperfect, depending as it did on the astronomical realisation of UT2.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

In most of the systems, this demiurge was seen as imperfect, in others even as evil.

In certain cases a special style is needed to accommodate imperfect statehood, e. g. the title Sardar-i-Riyasat was used in Kashmir after its accession to India, and PLO-leader Yasser Arafat was styled the first " President of the Palestinian National Authority " in 1994.

The struggles came to a climax in 1991 when the team went 1 – 15 and was just one point away from the first imperfect season in the history of a 16 game schedule.

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.

U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Chester Crocker testified before Congress that the election was imperfect but that at least it was a step toward democracy.

However, transmission of the text was imperfect, and by the Middle Ages, only the commentary on Numbers and Deuteronomy remained.

Joan Robinson's work on imperfect competition, at least, was a response to certain problems of Marshallian partial equilibrium theory highlighted by Piero Sraffa.

In the case of Greek manuscripts, the consumption of old codices for the sake of the material was so great that a synodal decree of the year 691 forbade the destruction of manuscripts of the Scriptures or the church fathers, except for imperfect or injured volumes.

However imperfect or imperfectly related the viewpoint, Pytheas was the first to associate the tides to the phases of the moon.

Three-to-one was called " perfect ," and two-to-one " imperfect.

), De Tallagio non Concedendo, though it is printed among the statutes of the realm, and was cited as a statute in the preamble to the Petition of Right in 1628, and by the judges in John Hampden's case in 1637, is probably an imperfect and unauthoritative abstract of the Confirmatio Cartarum.

Nevertheless, until the early 1820s it was still believed by many scientifically-literate people that just as new species did not appear, so existing ones did not become extinct — in part because they felt that extinction would imply that God's creation had been imperfect ; any oddities found were explained away as belonging to animals still living somewhere in an unexplored region of the earth.

As a child, Elizabeth was bright, if not brilliant, but her formal education was both imperfect and desultory.

However, this solution was imperfect as it lacked the original abstractness.

The chief monuments, of which the ruins are still extant within the circuit of the walls, are: the theatre, of which the remains are in imperfect condition, but sufficient to show that it was not of large size, and apparently of Roman construction, or at least, like that of Tauromenium, rebuilt in Roman times upon the Greek foundations ; a large edifice with two handsome stone arches, commonly called a Gymnasium, but the real purpose of which is very difficult to determine ; several other edifices of Roman times, but of wholly uncertain character, a mosaic pavement, and some Roman tombs.

He was one of the recipients of the 2004 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, presented by President George W. Bush for his contributions to research on the problem of making decisions using imperfect information and his research on bearing risk.

Cecil, according to his autobiographical notes, sat in Parliament in 1543 ; but his name does not occur in the imperfect parliamentary returns until 1547, when he was elected for the family borough of Stamford.

Progress in developing a reliable pen was slow until the mid-19th century, because of an imperfect understanding of the role that air pressure plays in the operation of pens and because most inks were highly corrosive and full of sedimentary inclusions.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

Firms under imperfect competition have the potential to be " price makers ", which means that, by holding a disproportionately high share of market power, they can influence the prices of their products.

It semantically corresponds to the distinction between the morphological forms known respectively as the aorist and imperfect in Greek, the preterite and imperfect in Spanish, the simple past ( passé simple ) and imperfect in French, and the perfect and imperfect in Latin ( from the Latin " perfectus ", meaning " completed ").

In particular, New Keynesians assume that there is imperfect competition in price and wage setting to help explain why prices and wages can become " sticky ", which means they do not adjust instantaneously to changes in economic conditions.

For, indeed, if it be supposed that God commenced His work at a certain definite time by His " will ", and for a certain definite object, it must be admitted that He was imperfect before accomplishing His will, or before attaining His object.

The doctrine aides, then, in interpreting the Scriptures so as to avoid paradox — as when Scripture says, for example, that the creation is " very good ", and also that " none is good but God alone "— since only God is goodness, while nevertheless humanity is created in the likeness of goodness ( and the likeness is necessarily imperfect in humanity, unless that person is also God ).

For the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, making a real distinction between " the heavenly and invisible Church, alone true and absolute ", and " the earthly Church ( or rather " the churches ") imperfect and relative " is a " Nestorian ecclesiology " and is thus deemed by both as heretical.

The system was known as " imperfect bipolarism ", as it was impossible for the only major opposition party, the Communists, to gain control of a NATO country.

When applied to meters, the terms " perfect " and " imperfect " are sometimes used as the equivalents of " divisive " and " additive ", respectively ( Read 1964, ).

In On the Origin of Species, Darwin had admitted that to use natural selection to explain something as complicated as a human eye, " with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration " might at first appear " absurd in the highest possible degree ," but nevertheless, if " numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist ", then it seemed quite possible to account for within his theory.

The first type leads to a " perfect duty ", and the second leads to an " imperfect duty.

The album was well received by critics ; Robert Christgau felt that her voice, raw and imperfect, free of " technical decorum ", would liberate female singers while Jon Landau in Rolling Stone felt that King was one of the most creative pop music figures and had created an album of " surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment ".

" Imperfect " comes from the Latin " unfinished ", because the imperfect expresses an ongoing, uncompleted action.

Spanish is similar, with imperfect and preterite sabía " I knew " vs. supe " I found out ", podía " I was able to " vs. pude " I succeeded ", quería " I wanted to " vs. quise " I tried to ", no quería " I did not want to " vs. no quise " I refused ".