" writes Ellingson, One who turns for help to Neale Fairchild's 1928 study, a compendium of citations from romantic writings on the " savage " may be surprised to find book The Noble Savage almost completely lacking in references to its nominal subject.

Adding this suffix to a nominal stem gives plural forms, adding it to verbal stems restricts the subject to third person singular.

In colonial times all grants of land from the Lords Baltimore were in the shape of leases subject to small and merely nominal ground rents, reserved by the Proprietary, and payable annually at Michaelmas, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, which in the calendar of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches occurs on September 29 ; hence St. Michael was considered to be the patron saint of colonial Maryland, and as such was honored by the river being named for him.

Its nominal subject was the discovery of a Roman urn burial in Norfolk.

Paros became subject to the Duchy of the Archipelago, a fiefdom made up of various Aegean islands ruled by a Venetian duke as nominal vassal of a succession of crusader states.

For we learn from Cicero that Tauromenium was one of the three cities in Sicily which enjoyed the privileges of a civitas foederata or allied city, thus retaining a nominal independence, and was not even subject, like Messana, to the obligation of furnishing ships of war when called upon.

The office was among the many maintained after the Western Roman Empire had succumbed to the Germanic invasion in Italy, notably at the royal court of the Ostrogothic king Theoderic the Great, who as a nominal subject of Constantinople retained the Roman-era administration intact.

The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation can send you some material on this subject for a nominal fee.

In a 2005 survey, 1, 084 international relations scholars were asked " which journals publish articles that have the greatest impact on the way international relations scholars think about their subject and their work " and to make a nominal list of their top four.

When shore establishments began to become more common it was necessary to allocate the title of the establishment to an actual vessel which became the nominal depot ship for the men allocated to the establishment and thus ensured they were subject to the provisions of the Act.

Thus, money itself is subject to both the inflation tax and the tax on the inflation tax, while other assets, on which nominal profit or gains taxes are imposed, are subject only to the tax on inflation.

" Stories emerged that he was an " overmighty subject ", arranging the positions of fielders and changing the bowler without reference to his nominal captain.

The subject and predicative nominal must be connected by a linking verb, also called a copula.

At this point the country, who was subject to at least a nominal subjugation to the Medes, rebelled and chose as its war-leader Parsodes, giving him command of their army.

The Tui Nayau, who had been the nominal overlord of the Lau Islands, became subject to Ma ' afu.

Le Bossu, which he wrote for Charles Albert Fechter, did not satisfy the actor ; and when the play was successfully produced, the nominal authorship, by some unfortunate arrangement, had been transferred to other men.

His most popular play was: Philinte, ou La suite du Misanthrope ( 1790 ), supposed to be a continuation of Molière's Le Misanthrope, but the hero of the piece is a different character from the nominal prototype — a pure and simple egotist.

These 3000 men ( twenty maniples of 120 men, and ten maniples of 60 men ), together with about 1200 velites and 300 cavalry gave the mid Republican (" manipular ") legion a nominal strength of about 4500 men.

** In very technical language: The nominal frequency or center frequency of various kinds of radio signals with digital modulation -- provided that the message bit stream is a random uncorrelated sequence of equally probable ones and zeroes (" marks " and " spaces ")

Residents can call in advance to schedule pickup for transport within the county by two government sponsored agencies (" Dial-A-Ride " within the city of Midland and " County Connection " for those outside the city of Midland but still within Midland County ) for a nominal fee.

Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae de Trums juxta paganos (" The Church of Saint Mary in Troms near the Heathens " – the nominal " heathens " being the Sámi ), was built during the reign of King Hákon Hákonarson.

Enfantin and Amand Bazard were proclaimed Pères Suprêmes (" Supreme Fathers ")-a union which was, however, only nominal, as a divergence was already manifest.

The continuous (" RMS ") value is also referred to as the nominal value, there being a regulatory requirement to use it.

Flight levels are described by a number, which is this nominal altitude (" pressure altitude ") in feet, divided by 100, while being a multiple of 500 ft, therefore always ending on 0 or 5.

* Reserve Decoration or Decoration for Reserve Force Service (" RD "-post nominal letters ), since 2003, awarded to South African Military Reserve members after 20 years service, at least five of which must have been in the Reserve Force

Rule changes in the 1980s did away with the fixed set of power choices, allowing stations to choose an appropriate power level for their antenna system (" dial-a-power "), so there should no longer be any need for the concept of nominal power.

* In language, the status of an item ( usually through what is known as " downranking " or " rank-shifting ") in relation to the uppermost rank in a clause ; for example, in the sentence " I want to eat the cake you made today ", " eat " is on the uppermost rank, but " made " is downranked as part of the nominal group " the cake you made today "; this nominal group behaves as though it were a single noun ( i. e., I want to eat it ), and thus the verb within it (" made ") is ranked differently from " eat ".

In any case, this " tax on the inflation tax " is essentially equivalent to a tax on holdings (" wealth tax ") equal to the nominal tax rate times the inflation rate ( in example above, 25 % of 4 % inflation equals 1. 0 %.

Additionally, self-identification could be easily captured either with a nominal question (" Do you self-identify with an existing political party?

Students, teachers, schools, and universities can purchase SoftMaker Office extremely cheaply ( a nominal charge of EUR 29. 95 or US $ 29. 95 buys an entire site licence for one product, for example ) through the " Schulen ans Netz " (" get schools onto the net ") initiative, part of SoftMaker's academic sales program.

An especially challenging technique is linking names (" nominal record linkage ") of the same person whose information appears in multiple source such as censuses, city directories, employment files and voting registration lists.

The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").

Most real systems have non-linear input / output characteristics, but many systems, when operated within nominal parameters ( not " over-driven ") have behavior that is close enough to linear that LTI system theory is an acceptable representation of the input / output behavior.

* Japanese forms adverbs from verbal adjectives by adding / ku / ( く ) to the stem ( e. g. haya-" rapid " hayai " quick / early ", hayakatta " was quick ", hayaku " quickly ") and from nominal adjectives by placing / ni / ( に ) after the adjective instead of the copula / na / ( な ) or / no / ( の ) ( e. g. rippa " splendid ", rippa ni " splendidly ").

In the Constitution of 1954, the President ( officially translated as " Chairman ") of the PRC was intended to be quite powerful, serving both as the Head of State, and the nominal Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

* His / Her Majesty's Advocate, the nominal prosecutor of Scottish criminal court cases ( e. g. " HMA v Sheridan ")

An incubus ( nominal form constructed from the Latin verb, incubo, incubare, or " to lie upon ") is a demon in male form who, according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions, lies upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have intercourse with them.

The nominal spherical critical mass for an untampered < sup > 235 </ sup > U nuclear weapon is 56 kg, a sphere 17. 32 cm ( 6. 8 ") in diameter.

These sizes are currently published by the Can Manufacturers Institute and may be expressed in three-digit numbers, as measured in whole and sixteenths of an inch for the container's nominal outside dimensions: a 307 x 512 would thus measure 3 and 7 / 16 " in diameter by 5 and 3 / 4 " ( 12 / 16 ") in height.

Further, there is no mileage charge or mileage limitations when you lease a car, and you pay only the flat monthly rate plus a nominal charge for documents and insurance since the car is registered and insured individually for your trip.

Verbal and adverbial elements too participated in each epic diction, but it is for the present sufficient to mark the large nominal and adjectival supply of semantic near-equivalents, and to designate the members of any system of equivalents as basic formulas of the poetic language.

The second stage is to retain the nominal classification of `` neutralist '', while in fact turning the country into an active advocate and adherent of Soviet policy.

A plea of nolo contendere, followed by a nominal fine, after all is a small price to pay for this untrammeled license.

Statistical arbitrage is an imbalance in expected nominal values.

As the ion will travel from the tip at voltage V < sub > 1 </ sub > to some nominal ground potential, the speed at which the ion is travelling can be estimated by the energy transferred into the ion during ( or near ) ionisation.

Typically the sweep takes the simple form of an advancement of the surface, such that the surface is expanded in a symmetric manner about its advancement axis, with the advancement rate set by some nominal volume attributed to each event, representative of the atomic volume of the atom prior to evaporation.

Bulgaria's per-capita PPP GDP is still only about a half of the EU27 average, while the country's nominal GDP per capita is about 20 % of the EU27 average.

If the filter shows amplitude ripple within the passband, the x dB point refers to the point where the gain is x dB below the nominal passband gain rather than x dB below the maximum gain.

This license is a 2-clause BSD license with an additional copyleft clause similar to the GNU GPL version 2's Section 3, requiring source code of an application using Berkeley DB to be made available for a nominal fee.

In nearly all cases, the monarch is still the nominal chief executive, but is bound by constitutional convention to act on the advice of the Cabinet.

Only a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.

It should be noted that this map is of the nominal population and thus, especially in Europe, the numbers are higher than those of actual practitioners.

If the nominal compression ratio of an engine is given, the pre-ignition cylinder pressure can be estimated using the following relationship:

This ratio is higher with more conservative ( i. e., earlier, soon after BDC ) intake cam timing, and lower with more radical ( i. e., later, long after BDC ) intake cam timing, but always lower than the static or " nominal " compression ratio.

A nominal definition is the definition explaining what a word means, i. e. which says what the ' nominal essence ' is, and is definition in the classical sense as given above.

These are similar to, but different from, nominal damages ( see below ), in which no written sum is specified.