The word viscount corresponds in the UK to the Anglo-Saxon shire reeve ( root of the non-nobiliary, royal-appointed office of sheriff ).

The sheriff sent word on Monday morning that he was coming to collect the tax or take him in.

The name is said to come from Robert Symonds, a 17th century sheriff of Herefordshire and " yat " as an old word for a gate or pass.

Commencing approximately ten centuries ago, the word " high " gradually evolved into a term that also referred to something excellent, or of superior rank, as evidenced in " high sheriff " and " high society ".

The word has no etymological connection with the English term sheriff, which comes from the Old English word scīrgerefa, meaning " shire-reeve ", the local reeve ( enforcement agent ) of the king in the shire ( county ).

Accepting these terms, the Stranger indulges in the town's goods and services, makes Mordecai both sheriff and mayor, has the entire town painted red, and paints the word " HELL " on the " LAGO " sign just outside of town.

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.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

But, by 1903, he understood that an antigen induces the production of immune bodies ( antibodies ) and wrote that the word antigen is a contraction of " Antisomatogen

It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

The word ' ester ' was coined in 1848 by German chemist Leopold Gmelin, probably as a contraction of the German Essigäther-acetic ether.

Hence, with the addition of more, or the contraction, mor, we have the word MOR-MON ; which means, literally, more good.

The word pixel is based on a contraction of pix (" pictures ") and el ( for " element "); similar formations with el for " element " include the words voxel

In English, " state " is a contraction of the word " estate ", which is similar to the old French estat and the modern French état, both of which signify that a person has status and therefore estate.

In western European cultures, women do not bow, they " curtsey " ( a contraction of " courtesy " that became its own word ), a movement in which one foot is moved back and the entire body lowered to a crouch while the head is bowed.

The British philologist Robert Nares ( 1753 – 1829 ) says that the word hoax was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means " to cheat ", " to impose upon " or " to befuddle often with drugged liquor ".

Its name may be a contraction of a Seneca Indian word meaning " bag tied in the middle ".

Riba, リバ ( a contraction of the English word " reversible ") is used to describe a couple that yaoi fans think is still plausible when the partners switch their seme / uke roles.

Writer Richard Meltzer, in his The Aesthetics of Rock, commented on Love's " orchestral moves ", " post-doper word contraction cuteness " and Lee's vocal style that serves as a " reaffirmation of Johnny Mathis ".

An example is the word courriel ( a contraction of courrier électronique ), the Quebec French term for e-mail, which was initially being favoured by the French Ministry of Culture and is now widely used among the Quebec public, but largely ignored in France.

" Dobro " is both a contraction of " Dopyera brothers " and a word meaning " goodness " in their native Slovak ( and also in Slovenian, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Russian, Polish and Ukrainian ).

The adjective or noun Scotch is an early modern English ( 16th century ) contraction of the English word Scottish which was later adopted into the Scots language.

The word is a contraction of attorney and cartoon.

When served with a layer of fried noodles ( either yakisoba or udon ), the resulting dish is called, the name of which may be derived from the English word " modern " or as a contraction of, meaning " a lot " or " piled high " signifying the volume of food from having both yakisoba and udon.

One theory is that it may come from the Indonesian word tjakalele., another is that it's a contraction of Kamot Lihok ( Cebuano for hand-body movement ) The multitude of languages spoken in the 7, 107 islands have not only diverged into over 170 dialects, but they have been constantly mixing with one another and as a result, Filipino martial arts comprise a vocabulary of heterogeneous terms.

However, Bailey was never explicit about the etymology of the word, and it has been suggested that it is a contraction of the words cultigen and variety, which seems more appropriate.

In crasis ( contraction of two words ), when the second word has a rough breathing, the contracted vowel does not take a rough breathing.

Journalist Bruno de Latour coined the term domotic in 1984. Domotic has been recently introduced in vocabulary as a composite word of Latin word domus and informatics, or a contraction of domestic robotics, and it refers to intelligent houses meaning the use of the automation technologies and computer science applied to the home.