I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.

Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.

If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

This creates an amusing effect because its position in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong 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.

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

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame spelled out in terms of agreeable listening.

In the third verse ( see above ), the author scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.

In a perfectly phonemic orthography there would be a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes, so that a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

The French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word " American ", in denoting " U. S. citizen ".

Additional cognates of the same word in other Germanic languages include the German Schürze and Dutch schort ( apron ).

On the other hand, French lait and Spanish leche ( both meaning " milk ") are less obviously cognates of Ancient Greek gálaktos ( genitive singular of gála, " milk "), a relationship more evidently seen through the intermediate Latin lac " milk ", as well as the English word lactic and other terms borrowed from Latin.

The modern English word " evil " ( Old English ) and its cognates such as the German and Dutch are widely considered to come from a Proto-Germanic reconstructed form of * ubilaz, comparable to the Hittite huwapp-ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European form and suffixed zero-grade form.

The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic languages ; but the Scandinavian ones ( like Swedish frände, Danish frænde ) predominatly mean " relative " ( but may also mean soulmate ).

As an example of false cognates, the word for " dog " in the Australian Aboriginal language Mbabaram happens to be dog, although there is no common ancestor or other connection between that language and English ( the Mbabaram word evolved regularly from a protolinguistic form * gudaga ).

Similarly, the word for " declension " and its many European cognates, including its Latin source declinatio come from the root * k ^ lei -, " to lean ".

The word has cognates in many other languages.

In the Proto-Indo-European religion, the supreme god is Dyeus, as the word " Dyeus " is literally used in many Indo-European language cognates to denote a supreme god.

This word is not used in modern English — the Hebrew word is transliterated instead — but cognates of it are still used in many Romance languages ( Spanish pan ácimo, French pain azyme, Italian azzimo, Romanian azimă ).

The word has many cognates outside of Germanic and Celtic, notably Latin rex and Sanskrit raja " king ".

The word state and its cognates in other European languages ( stato in Italian, Estado in Spanish état in French, Staat in German ) ultimately derive from the Latin status, meaning " condition " or " status.

Even more unexpected than the panoply of Indo-European cognates for Dao ( drog ) is the Hebrew root d-r-g for the same word and Arabic t-r-q, which yields words meaning " track, path, way, way of doing things " and is important in Islamic philosophical discourse.

The etymological pedigree of the word, however, remains uncertain, though numerous speculative attempts have been made to find Indo-European cognates outside the Germanic group.

The majority of cognates of the word " soldier " that exist in other languages have a meaning that embraces both commissioned and non-commissioned officers in national land forces.

The word has several cognates in modern Germanic languages, such as German Scheiße, Dutch schijt, Swedish skit, Icelandic skítur, Norwegian skitt etc.

By the era of Early Modern English, the mole was also known in English as mouldywarp, a word having cognates in other Germanic languages such as German ( Maulwurf ), and Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic ( muldvarp, mullvad, moldvarpa ), where the muld / mull / mold part of the word means soil and the varp / vad / varpa part means throw, hence " one who throws soil " or " dirt tosser ".

The scientific name persica, along with the word " peach " itself and its cognates in many European languages, derives from an early European belief that peaches were native to Persia.

While the word ass has cognates in most other Indo-European languages, donkey is an etymologically obscure word for which no credible cognate has been identified.

The Slavic word knjaz and the Lithuanian kunigas ( today translated as prince ) are actually cognates of King.

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.

this was not virtue as we understand the word today, and it did not mean an abandonment of the belief in magic manipulation.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

In other stories, authors have used the word " android " to mean a wholly organic, yet artificial, creation.

The Christian writer's traditional re-interpretation is that the Hebrew word Sheol can mean many things, including " grave ", " resort ", " place of waiting " and " place of healing ".

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.

The word aeon (), also spelt eon or æon, originally means " life ", and / or " being ", though it then tended to mean " age ", " forever " or " for eternity ".

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.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

The main recent sense of the word “ art ” is roughly as an abbreviation for creative art or “ fine art .” Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist ’ s creativity, or to engage the audience ’ s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the “ finer ” things.

Other Flexowriter characters that were found a use in Atlas Autocode were: in floating-point numbers, e. g. for modern ; to mean " the second half of an Atlas memory word "; for the mathematical pi number.

The Shakespearean English form of the word ' brass ' can mean any bronze alloy, or copper, rather than the strict modern definition of brass.

John's Gospel was written in Greek, and the Greek word translated as again is ανωΘεν ( anothen ), which could mean again, or from above.

There are many theories about how the word " cipher " may have come to mean " encoding ":

The earliest entries for the word " cognitive " in the OED take it to mean roughly pertaining " to the action or process of knowing ".

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.

It is widespread practice in the media in the UK ( and elsewhere ) to use the word Europe to mean continental Europe ; that is, " Europe " excludes Britain, Iceland and Ireland ( though the term is sometimes used to refer to the European Union ).

Bhattacharyya's review of Tantric history says that the word chakra is used to mean several different things in the Sanskrit sources:

" Cyril had apparently understood the Greek word physis to mean approximately what the Latin word persona ( person ) means, while most Greek theologians would have interpreted that word to mean natura ( nature ).