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The word is documented in English since 1274 ( attested in Anglo-Latin from c. 1189 ), and stems from Old French pellori ( 1168 ; modern French pilori, see below ), itself from medieval Latin pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila " pillar, stone barrier.
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I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.
Complicity is an embarrassing word.
As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.
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 ''.
To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.
Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.
Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.
As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??
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.
Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.
Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.
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.
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.
The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.
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 ; ;
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.
If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.
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There is no documented evidence for this theory, however, and, the word liti was probably borrowed from 16th-18th century writings in Latin, where the word lituus could describe various wind instruments, such as the horn, the crumhorn, or the cornett.
The oldest documented use of the word " tennō " is on a wooden slat, or mokkan, that was unearthed in Asuka-mura, Nara Prefecture in 1998 and dated back to the reign of Emperor Temmu and Empress Jitō.
The origin of the word jazz has had wide spread interest – the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century — which has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented.
The use of the word in a musical context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune.
The first documented appearance of the word " nerd " is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo ( 1950 ), in which the narrator Gerald McGrew claims that he would collect " a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too " for his imaginary zoo.
The first documented definition of the word " cocktail " was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York.
The earliest documented use of the word Tantra is in the Hindu text, the Rigveda ( X. 71. 9 ).
Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the " opprobrious " character of the word nigger, emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than " colored.
The study documented substantial cognitive impairment after ECT on a variety of memory tests, including " verbal memory for word lists and prose passages and visual memory of geometric designs.
Half spoken word poem and half tape-recorded sounds, the song documented Baez's visit to Hanoi, North Vietnam, in December 1972, during which she and her traveling companions survived the 11-day long Christmas Bombings campaign over Hanoi and Haiphong.
The English word " squash " derives from askutasquash ( a green thing eaten raw ), a word from the Narragansett language, which was documented by Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, in his 1643 publication A Key Into the Language of America.
The first documented use of the word gamecock, denoting use of the cock as to a “ game ”, a sport, pastime or entertainment, was recorded in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.
The Romano-Celtic name for the Humber is documented as having been Abus which suggests that a shorter element * abo-existed in the Proto-Celtic lexicon as a word for ‘ river ’ or ‘ water .’ This * abo-element could have been the source of the Ab -- element in the theonym Abandinus.
The word ' Mego ' is an acronym referring to " My Eyes Glaze Over ", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn ( the use of the term in hacker-culture is documented in the Jargon File ).
Brock's personal integrity and respect for native peoples has been well documented, and suggest that if he had lived he would have kept his word to the Shawnee.
' Taconic ' is based on a Native American word, documented in use as early as 1685, and spelled a number of ways including:
He also documented controversy surrounding okay and the history of its folk etymologies, both of which are intertwined with the history of the word itself.
His name is often associated with the slang term for prostitute, although the etymology of that word has been documented to appear in print well before he became a public figure.
The word hoodoo first was documented in American English in 1875 and was listed as a noun or a transitive verb.
* However, the earliest documented use of the word in any language is in Latin in 1267 by Roger Bacon, where it meant a set of tables detailing movements of heavenly bodies including the moon.
This is a serious problem because the word has been documented from the 18th century, including the 1786 Diccionario castellano con las voces de Ciencias y Artes y sus correspondientes en las 3 lenguas francesa, latina e italiana by Esteban de Terreros y Pando, and South American literature.
This word is documented in earlier Italian works ( Fazio degli Uberti, XIV cent.
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