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The OED2 has a citation from 1847 where the word appears: " She com back and quiesed us ", which could be a clue to its origin.
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Although the OED2 notes Granholm was " jocular ", it accepts his ironic etymology from a fictional " Fink and Wiggles " for Funk & Wagnalls lexicographer.
These additional meanings and connotations are negative and identify a slut as being a slovenly and ugly person, for example, as in these quotations from OED2:
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The longest entry in the OED2 was for the verb set, which required 60, 000 words to describe some 430 senses.
" Another usage example is give face, which is included in the Wiktionary but not the OED2.
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The etymology of byssus, according to the OED2, began with Biblical Hebrew būts or butz בוץ meaning ' a fibre or fabric distinguished for its whiteness ', cognate with Aramaic ܒܘܫ bus and Arabic باض bāḍa ' to be white '.
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In the words of the Nobel Committee ’ s citation: " In a convincing manner Sakharov has emphasised that Man's inviolable rights provide the only safe foundation for genuine and enduring international cooperation.
" Although the purported citation of Euclid by Archimedes has been judged to be an interpolation by later editors of his works, it is still believed that Euclid wrote his works before those of Archimedes.
In fact, the ESS has become so central to game theory that often no citation is given, as the reader is assumed to be familiar with it.
Furthermore, it has been established that a substantial portion of it was taken, without citation, from a 1864 satire on Napoleon III by one Maurice Joly ( his French language work, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu )-so that it also constitutes plagiarism.
In its citation, the jury said: " Ieoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms ... His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.
Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).
Similarly faceted classification schemes are more difficult to use for shelf arrangement, unless the user has knowledge of the citation order.
It has been said ( citation: following Blanche's request, " tell me you married me for my bod and not for my money ", the Wizard puts on a lightning conductor hat, grounds it thoroughly, and swears, " may lightning strike me dead ... it was not for your money ( strip of 4 / 30 / 1976, also published in " My Kingdom For A Horsie!
* 1939: Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) The citation read, " For Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field.
Heidegger opens his magnum opus, Being and Time, with a citation from Plato's Sophist indicating that Western philosophy has neglected " being " because it was considered obvious, rather than as worthy of question.
In nominative – absolutive languages, also called marked-nominative languages, the nominative has a case inflection, while the accusative and citation form do not.
( This citation has no mention of Gabriel Voisin, who was not involved in aviation at the time ; neither are there patents to substantiate this claim )
The Epistle of Jude contains a verifiable citation from the Book of Enoch, which is not a part of the canon for most Christian churches, which has " Enoch the Seventh from Adam " having " prophesied to " false teachers.
Each of these citation systems has its respective advantages and disadvantages relative to the trade-offs of being informative ( but not too disruptive ) and thus are chosen relative to the needs of the type of publication being crafted.
Ernie has recently received the citation for " The BEST U. S. Route 66 attraction where the ORIGINAL GUY is still there ".
Dodson has a long-standing reputation as a notorious speed trap, with more than half of its revenue generated by traffic citations with a total of $ 717 in citation revenue per resident, the fourth highest in the state.
The numerical citation of Acts has also changed over time.
It is similar in meaning to idem ( meaning something that has been mentioned previously ; the same ), abbreviated Id., which is commonly used in legal citation.
The research of W. M. Lindsay and later of Strzelecki has shown that Nonius obtained many of his lemmata ( entries ) and the first citation for each from earlier grammatical texts which are now lost.
For an example of a database that has a specific citation search option go to the University of Michigan Library Database.
Terrence McNally ( born November 3, 1939 ) is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His citation includes these words: " Edmonson has been at the vanguard of the movement to bring Latin music north of the border.
She has been mentioned as a future candidate for Governor of Arkansas in 2014 ( citation?
The citation said that " the Board of Trustees recognizes her merciful cognizance of the abject poor of a foreign land, in whose service she has led a new congregation ".
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The maku Frayne has inherited this strength from his grandfather ''.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
Within their confines, moreover, technological and industrial growth has proceeded at an accelerated pace, thus increasing the cornucopia from which material wants can be satisfied.
It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;
He has frequently refused to move from white lunch counters, refused to obey local laws which he considers unjust, while in other cases he has appealed to federal laws.
Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.
There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.
But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.
Monogamy is the vice from which the abjectly fearful middle class continue to suffer, whereas the beatnik has the courage to break out of that prison of respectability.
This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.
Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.
In our own time we have seen that the novelist's debt to psychoanalysis has increased but that the novel itself has not profited much from this marriage.
He has employed from his section rich immediate materials which in a loose sense can be termed Southern.
Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.
His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
But none of this has prevented scientists, philosophers, and even historians of science, from speaking of the Ptolemaic system, in contrast to the Copernican.
His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.
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