It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.

This push to confine the study of mass behaviour to the measurements of parameters involved in differential equations has led sociology perilously close to the reduction of the word `` mass '' to mean a small group in which certain relations between all pairs of individuals in such a group can be studied.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

If a statement has been assigned an address in the index word area

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

Of his own will he has begotten us by the word of truth.

Amen, amen, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has life everlasting, and does not come to judgment, but has passed from death to life.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

For instance, the word " bank " has several distinct lexical definitions, including " financial institution " and " edge of a river ".

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

We have been using the word `` public '' in quotation marks, that is, in its vernacular connotation with reference to the odd-lot index theory.

I have been using the word `` vocational '' as a layman would at first sight think it should be used.

The deeds of this team, through two seasons and in the two World's Series that followed, have been written and talked about until hardly a word is left to be said.

It must have been the sort of look that can call a bluff without saying a word.

For you have been reborn, not from corruptible seed but from incorruptible, through the word of God.

Sitting in the kitchen I recalled every word Mrs. Salter said that could have been a sign to me.

Clearly she had been instructed `` not to say a word ''.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

However, the connection that has derived ambrosia from the Greek prefix a-(" not ") and the word brotos (" mortal "), hence the food or drink of the immortals, has been questioned as coincidental by some modern linguists.

For a long time, scholars believed that the alphorn had been derived from the Roman-Etruscan lituus, because of their resemblance in shape, and because of the word liti, meaning Alphorn in the dialect of Obwalden.

The word is attested in Herodotus, who wrote some of the first surviving Greek prose, but this may not have been before 440 or 430 BC.

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

In the simplest cases, the measure of central tendency is an average of a set of measurements, the word average being variously construed as mean, median, or other measure of location, depending on the context.

Canadians variously use either the term vacation or the word holiday.

As a noun, the word MUD is variously written MUD, Mud, and mud, depending on speaker and context.

In a manner very similar to, the Gospel of Philip presents Mary Magdalene among Jesus ' female entourage, adding that she was his koinônos, a Greek word variously translated in contemporary versions as partner, associate, comrade, companion.

The Latin word was translated into ancient Greek variously: as ἱεροδιδάσκαλος, ἱερονόμος, ἱεροφύλαξ, ἱεροφάντης, or ἀρχιερεύς ( high priest ) The head of the college was known as the Pontifex Maximus ( the greatest pontiff ).

An early use of the Old Russian word is in the anti-pagan treatise " Word of Saint Grigoriy ", dated variously to the 11th – 13th centuries, where pagan worship of upyri is reported.

The word werewolf is thought to derive from Old English wer ( or were )— pronounced variously as,, or and wulf.

Egyptologists have vocalized the word variously as Aten, Aton, Atonu, and Itn.

In 1656, a map by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, refers to the lake as Karegnondi, a Wendat word which has been variously translated as " Freshwater Sea ", " Lake of the Hurons ", or simply " lake ".

The word is variously attributed.

Though the reality was that the Stonewall riots themselves, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were events fully participated in by lesbian women, bisexual people and transgender people as well as by gay men of all races and backgrounds, historically these events were first named Gay, the word at that time being used in a more generic sense to cover the entire spectrum of what is now variously called the ' queer ' or LGBT community.

The French term is Cochon d ' Inde ( Indian pig ) or cobaye ; the Dutch call it Guinees biggetje ( Guinean piglet ) or cavia ( while in some Dutch dialects it is called Spaanse rat ); and in Portuguese the guinea pig is variously referred to as cobaia, from the Tupi word via its Latinization, or as porquinho da Índia ( little Indian pig ).

The exact meaning of the word " ebestol " is unclear, but has been variously translated as " epistle ", tales ", " account ", " spite " and " lies.

Its name is a Delaware Indian word variously translated as " old town " or " open mouth ".

" Tehama " is believed to be an Indian word, but authorities disagree on the meaning, which has variously been reported as " high water ", " low land ", " salmon " or " shallow " — any of which would be an accurate description of a location where the river is normally shallow enough to ford, where fishermen are a common sight during the salmon run, and winter floods are a regular occurrence.

Pursy ( pronounced with a short u, and with the r slurred or silent ) was in turn derived from an Old French word variously spelled pourcif, poulsif, poussif, meaning " to push, thrust, or heave ".

Plurality is a linguistic universal, represented variously among the languages as a separate word ( free morpheme ), an affix ( bound morpheme ), or by other morphological indications such as stress or implicit markers / context.

The name lapwing has been variously attributed to the " lapping " sound its wings make in flight, from the irregular progress in flight due to its large wings ( OED derives this from an Old English word meaning " to totter "), or from its habit of drawing potential predators away from its nest by trailing a wing as if broken.

The word " impasto " is Italian in origin ; in that language it means " dough " or " mixture "; the verb " impastare " translates variously as " to knead ", or " to paste ".

In 14th-and 15th-century cookery manuals, a possibly-related word spelled variously " possenet ", " postnet ", or " posnet " is used to mean a small pot or saucepan.

The word Dzogchen has been translated variously as Great Perfection, Great Completeness, Total Completeness, and Supercompleteness.

The word is variously derived from the word for tribute ( in modern terms, protection racket ) paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment.

Formerly and variously known as Paislay, Passelet, Passeleth, and Passelay the burgh's name is of uncertain origin ; some sources suggest a derivation either from the Brythonic word, pasgill, " pasture ", or more likely, passeleg, " basilica ", ( i. e. major church ), itself derived from the Greek βασιλική basilika.