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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.
Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.
We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.
The word Nepōhualtzintzin comes from the Nahuatl and it is formed by the roots ; Ne-personal -; pōhual or pōhualli-the account -; and tzintzin-small similar elements.
The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.
The conventional symbol Z possibly comes from the German word ( atomic number ).
" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.
The specific name comes from the Afar word for " basal family ancestor ".
The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning " a corner ".
Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.
The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).
The word amaranth comes from the Greek word amarantos, meaning " unwithering ".
Christianity's idea of " eternal life " comes from the word for life, zoe, and a form of aeon, which could mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, just as much as immortality, as in.
The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ( akron, " edge, extremity ") and ( polis, " city ").
The word astrology comes from the early Latin word astrologia, deriving from the Greek noun, ' account of the stars '.
To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.
The name " Aleut " comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning " community.
The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.

word and from
The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
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.
One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.
Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.
The rider from Concord was as good as his word.
They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.
`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.
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!!
You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.
For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.
This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.
Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.
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 ; ;
An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.
Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.
This word was from the Spanish, meanin' `` polecat ''.
Later, the word became almost exclusively applied to a cow thief, startin' from the days of the maverick when cowhands were paid by their employers to `` get out and rustle a few mavericks ''.
The word hissed distinctly from Poet's lips as he struggled to his feet.
This was the first word from Jensen on his sudden walkout.
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.
`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

word and Renaissance
The dominant usage of the word Renaissance refers to the cultural changes that occurred in Italy that culminated in the High Renaissance around 1500.
However, it was not until the 19th century that the French word Renaissance achieved popularity in describing the self-conscious cultural movement based on revival of Roman models that began in the late-13th century.
Some historians have begun to consider the word Renaissance to be unnecessarily loaded, implying an unambiguously positive rebirth from the supposedly more primitive " Dark Ages " ( Middle Ages ).
In Renaissance usage, the Italian word cortigiana, feminine of cortigiano (" courtier ") came to refer to " the ruler's mistress ", and then to a well-educated and independent woman of loose morals, eventually a trained artisan of dance and singing, especially one associated with wealthy, powerful, or upper-class men who provided luxuries and status in exchange for companionship.
An unrelated use of the word in music is in light-hearted madrigals of the Renaissance period, which were often called scherzi musicali.
The way in which the word state came to acquire this modern type of meaning during the Renaissance has been the subject of many academic discussions, with this sentence and similar ones in the works of Machiavelli being considered particularly important.
By the time of the Renaissance, the word " publican " meant a tavern keeper ( the licensed landlord of a public house ), and by extension a slang term for a pimp.
* The Schloss ( a German word for palace ), built in 1589 in Renaissance style, as a residence for the dukes of Mecklenburg.
In the Renaissance, the term ( which is related to the word concept ) indicated any particularly fanciful expression of wit, and was later used pejoratively of outlandish poetic metaphors.
The name bank derives from the Italian word banco " desk / bench ", used during the Renaissance era by Florentine bankers, who used to make their transactions above a desk covered by a green tablecloth.
The historian of the Renaissance Sir John Hale cautions against too direct a linkage between Renaissance humanism and modern uses of the term: " Renaissance humanism must be kept free from any hint of either " humanitarianism " or " humanism " in its modern sense of rational, non-religious approach to life ... the word " humanism " will mislead ... if it is seen in opposition to a Christianity its students in the main wished to supplement, not contradict, through their patient excavation of the sources of ancient God-inspired wisdom "
Her name is a pun on the word " Renaissance ", which was a time when many art and music was made.
The word renaissance ( Rinascimento in Italian ) means " rebirth ", and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages.
Spoken word poetry originated from the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and blues music.
The word " twink " appeared in the Ultima Online: Renaissance playguide in the glossary of terms.
In its typical specialised usage, the word chanson refers to a polyphonic French song of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
A neumatic chant, called znamenny, from the word ' znamia ', meaning sign or neume, used until 16th century in Orthodox church music, followed by two hundreds of stylistic innovation that drew on the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation.
The word " Renaissance ," even to historians of the early 20th century, signified the Italian Renaissance of the 15th century as 19th century Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt had defined it.
The word was also used by a character in Claude McKay ’ s 1928 novel Home to Harlem, indicating that it was used during the Harlem Renaissance.
" Cange's Glossary takes words from authors ranging from the Christian period ( Late Latin ) to the Renaissance, dipping into the classical period if a word originated there.

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