Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, by False Derivation Or Mistaken AnalogyJohnson Reprint, 1882 - 664 Seiten |
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... common parlance synonymous with danger . Reformers in all ages have had unhappy experiences of this popular feeling . To leave the common track is to be delirious ( de lirâ ) , if not something worse . Fust , the innovating printer , is ...
... common parlance synonymous with danger . Reformers in all ages have had unhappy experiences of this popular feeling . To leave the common track is to be delirious ( de lirâ ) , if not something worse . Fust , the innovating printer , is ...
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... common folk cannot away with , it is an unknown word , which , seeming to mean something , to them means nothing . A strange vocable which awakes no echo in their understanding simply irritates . It is like a dumb note in a piano ...
... common folk cannot away with , it is an unknown word , which , seeming to mean something , to them means nothing . A strange vocable which awakes no echo in their understanding simply irritates . It is like a dumb note in a piano ...
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... common wild cherry is Prussus avium , and having read that Prussic acid can be made ( and I believe is made ) from the kernels of cherries and other stone - fruit , I concluded for the moment that Prussic acid must be that manufactured ...
... common wild cherry is Prussus avium , and having read that Prussic acid can be made ( and I believe is made ) from the kernels of cherries and other stone - fruit , I concluded for the moment that Prussic acid must be that manufactured ...
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... common people , " says Victor Hugo , " whose plain common sense never looks for profound meanings in things , gave to this dark , damp , loathsome hole the name of Trou aux Rats " ( The Hunchback of Notre - Dame , bk . v . ch . 2 ) ...
... common people , " says Victor Hugo , " whose plain common sense never looks for profound meanings in things , gave to this dark , damp , loathsome hole the name of Trou aux Rats " ( The Hunchback of Notre - Dame , bk . v . ch . 2 ) ...
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... common old spelling ( it is found in Lydgate and Chaucer ) of the word arithmetic , as if it were the metric art . The Low Lat . form aris- metica is probably from It . arismus , risma , for Gk . arithmós ( number ) . Cf. Sp . resma ...
... common old spelling ( it is found in Lydgate and Chaucer ) of the word arithmetic , as if it were the metric art . The Low Lat . form aris- metica is probably from It . arismus , risma , for Gk . arithmós ( number ) . Cf. Sp . resma ...
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akin Alliterative Poems ancient Andresen Anglicized form Arab Arber assimilated Bailey bird called Chaucer Cleveland Compare connexion corrupted form Cotgrave Davies denoting derived dialect Dict Diez doth Du Bartas Dutch E. D. Soc Etym Faerie Queene Florio formerly French German word Glossary Goth Greek Hampole hath haue Hist Holy horse Icel Ireland Irish Jamieson Jonson Joyce King Latin Lincolnshire Lord Low Lat meaning mistaken Nares old Eng old English old Fr old name old word orig originally pare Parv Parvulorum Percy Folio perhaps Philolog phrase Piers Plowman place-name plant Plowman plural popular name Portg probably Prompt Prov provincial Queene Riwle Robert of Gloucester ruption Sansk says Scheler Scot Scotch seems Sermons Shakespeare Shaks Skeat spelling spelt Spenser surname Swed term thou tion verb Wallon Wedgwood Welsh whence William of Palerne Wright Wycliffe þat
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Seite 365 - So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! REPORT • OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.
Seite 331 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Seite 303 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Seite 220 - I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound. And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Seite 178 - But as when the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and...
Seite 142 - Your marchesite, your tutie, your magnesia, Your toad, your crow, your dragon, and your panther; Your sun, your moon, your firmament, your adrop, Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit, And then your red man, and your white woman, With all your broths, your menstrues, and materials Of piss and egg-shells, women's terms, man's blood, Hair o...
Seite 259 - She could read any English book without much spelling ; but for pickling, preserving, and cookery none could excel her. She prided herself also upon being an excellent contriver in housekeeping, though I could never find that we grew richer with all her contrivances.
Seite 58 - Faerie thee unweeting reft, There as thou slepst in tender swadling band, And her base elfin brood there for thee left. Such men do chaungelings call, so chaung'd by Faeries theft.
Seite 398 - Thumbe did live, A man of mickle might, The best of all the table round, And eke a doughty knight : His stature but an inch in height, Or quarter of a span ; Then thinke you not this little knight, Was prov'da valiant man ? His father was a plow-man plaine, His mother milkt the cow, 10 But yet the way to get a sonne
Seite 58 - The fairies lost command ; They did but change priests babies, But some have chang'd your land : And all your children stoln from thence Are now growne Puritanes, Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your demaines.