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In the context of mysticism, the phrase refers metaphorically to the end of ordinary reality and reunion with the Divine.
More recently, as the phenomenon has become so well known, the phrase is sometimes used in ordinary examples ( without obfuscation ).
Rousseau's striking phrase that man must " be forced to be free " should be understood this way: since the indivisible and inalienable popular sovereignty decides what is good for the whole, then if an individual lapses back into his ordinary egoism and disobeys the leadership, he will be forced to listen to what they decided as a member of the collectivity ( i. e. as citizens ).
* Figure of Speech, the confusion between the metaphorical or figurative use of a word or phrase and the ordinary or literal use of a word or phrase.
Here the phrase " due use of the ordinary means " includes appeals to pastors and teachers
By 1860 Virginian author George Fitzhugh was using the " challenging phrase “ master race ”, which soon came to mean considerably more than the ordinary master-slave relationship ".
While in mysticism the phrase refers metaphorically to the end of ordinary reality and reunion with the Divine, in many traditional religions it is taught as an actual future event prophesied in sacred texts or folklore.
The meaning of the phrase is not related to the ordinary meanings of pull or leg ; the entire phrase is an idiom.
Although Fowler retains a mention of human emotion, an essential aspect in Ruskin,ordinary modern use pathos and pathetic are limited to the idea of painful emotion ; but in this phrase, now common though little recognized in dictionaries, the original wider sense of emotion in general is reverted to, and ... fallacy means the tendency to credit nature with human emotions .”
The phrase has since entered popular culture, often describing ordinary or mundane events with a sarcastic implication that these events are somehow earth-shattering, such as " ITS crashes ; Film at 11.
Related to the latter meaning is the phrase " before the mast " which denotes anything related to ordinary sailors, as opposed to a ship's officers.
The phrase " mirror matter " was also introduced by physicist and author Dr. Robert L. Forward as an alternative term for what is commonly called antimatter, in an attempt to emphasize that antimatter is identical to ordinary matter, except reversed in all possible ways ( i. e., CPT ).
In regression analysis, the term " standard error " is also used in the phrase standard error of the regression to mean the ordinary least squares estimate of the standard deviation of the underlying errors.
Ramsey also noticed that, although his paraphrasings and definitions could be easily rendered in logical symbolism, the more fundamental problem was that, in ordinary English, the elimination of the truth-predicate in a phrase such as Everything John says is true would result in something like " If John says something, then that ".
Alternatively, given that in a few local dialects ( particularly in Waterford Irish and South Connacht Irish ) has replaced as the ordinary name for Ireland, it could be that the phrase was taken from a speaker of such a dialect.
The phrase is a code, symbolic of the ourobouros, that sets members of the Group apart from ordinary citizens.
Gilbert Ryle ( 19 August 1900, Brighton – 6 October 1976, Oxford ), was a British philosopher, a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers who shared Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase " the ghost in the machine.
" It was this phrase that finally captured the collective imaginations of ordinary people, causing them to reevaluate their assumptions about the nature of God.
The phrase man bites dog is a shortened version of an aphorism in journalism which describes how an unusual, infrequent event is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence with similar consequences, such as a dog biting a person (" dog bites man ").
Metanalysis of phrases: in the phrase God rest ye merry gentlemen, originally merry was a complement with rest ( i. e., " God give you gentlemen a pleasant repose "), now frequently construed as an ordinary adjective modifying gentlemen ( and in all probability relexicalized with the current sense of merry, i. e. cheerful, jolly, though that is harder to be certain of ).
Note that in statements of the assumptions underlying regression analyses such as ordinary least squares, the phrase " no multicollinearity " is sometimes used to mean the absence of perfect multicollinearity, which is an exact ( non-stochastic ) linear relation among the regressors.

phrase and language
The lexical ambiguity of a word or phrase pertains to its having more than one meaning in the language to which the word belongs.
Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).
The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant .- This last phrase is not completely accurate-In Don Quixote there are basically 2 different Castillian: Old Castillian is only spoken by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a much modern version of Spanish, pretty much understandable by the actual reader.
This negative reputation survives today in the English language, in terms like " gin mills " or the American phrase " gin joints " to describe disreputable bars or " gin-soaked " to refer to drunks, and in the phrase " mother's ruin ", a common British name for gin.
#* The answer to this version is " language " -- the third word in the phrase " the English language.
The phrase " Inuit language " is largely limited to professional discourse, since in each area, there is one or more conventional terms that cover all the local variants ; or it is used as a descriptive term in publications where readers can't necessarily be expected to know the locally used words.
" It has no basis in historical fact and Shakespeare's use of Latin here is not from any assertion that Caesar would have been using the language, rather than the Greek reported by Suetonius, but because the phrase was already popular when the play was written.
Human language is also unique in having the property of recursivity ; this is the way in which, for example, a noun phrase to contain another noun phrase ( as in "< nowiki >
Another characteristic feature of logical positivism is the commitment to " Unified Science "; that is, the development of a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a " universal slang " in which all scientific propositions can be expressed.
Among semantics of language, lexical semantics is most robust, and to some extend the phrase semantics too, while other types of linguistic semantics are new and not quite examined.
Lincos ( an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica ) is an artificial language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal in his book Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1.
A loya jirga () is a type of jirga regarded as " grand assembly ," a phrase in the Pashto language meaning " grand council.
An expression ( word, phrase ) that by implication suggests the likeness of one entity to another entity gives style to an item of speech or writing, whether the entities consist of objects, events, ideas, activities, attributes, or almost anything expressible in language.
A borrowing from the Pomeranian language which has been used in everyday German language and has appeared in dictionaries is a phrase “ dalli, dalli ” ( it means: come on, come on ).
He has said that he had not applied the principle of least surprise to the design of Ruby, but nevertheless the phrase has come to be closely associated with the Ruby programming language.
John 7: 38, speaks of " living water ," using the language for spiritual life found in places like Jeremiah 17: 13, Jeremiah 2: 13, and Zechariah 14: 8, but the phrase is also used poetically in Song 4: 15.
The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.
The etymology of Tusci is based on a beneficiary phrase in the third Iguvine tablet, which is a major source for the Umbrian language.

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But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.
A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.
And although Schnabel's pianism bristles with excitement, it is meticulously faithful to Schubert's dynamic markings and phrase indications.
Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.
Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.
It is a phrase as arresting as a magician's gesture, with a piquant turn of harmony giving an effect of strangeness.
there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.
It is true of the rhythmic pattern in which the beat shifts continuously, or at least is continuously sprung, so that it becomes ambiguous enough to allow the pattern to be dominated by the long pulsations of the phrase or strophe.
It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.
) `` Quoting Mr. Kennan's phrase that anything would be better than a policy which led inevitably to nuclear war, he ( Toynbee ) says that anything is better than a policy which allows for the possibility of nuclear war ''.
What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.
His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.
In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.
" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).
Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.
" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.
The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.
An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

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