v.t. To take the preliminary step toward resumption.
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n.
1.The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
2.That rare quality of mind to which monuments are erected by posterity above the bones of paupers.
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1.The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
2.That rare quality of mind to which monuments are erected by posterity above the bones of paupers.
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n. abderian laughter is idle and senseless laughter; so called because democritus, an idle and senseless philosopher, is said to have been born at abdera, whence the word was hardly worth importing.
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n. the mohammedan ceremony of inspiring water through the nose before expiring prayer from the stomach.,
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n.
1.An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.
Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication
Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation.
For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her:
She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her.
To History she'll be no royal riddle—
Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle.
—G.J.
2.The surrender of a crown for a cowl, in order to compile the shin-bones and toe-nails of saints. The voluntary renunciation of that of which one has previously been deprived by force. The giving up of a throne for the purpose of enjoying the discomfiture of a successor. For these several definitions we are indebted to Spanish history.
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1.An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.
Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication
Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation.
For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her:
She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her.
To History she'll be no royal riddle—
Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle.
—G.J.
2.The surrender of a crown for a cowl, in order to compile the shin-bones and toe-nails of saints. The voluntary renunciation of that of which one has previously been deprived by force. The giving up of a throne for the purpose of enjoying the discomfiture of a successor. For these several definitions we are indebted to Spanish history.
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n. one of the degrees of disapproval due to what is imperfectly understood.
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n. a place where cattle slaughter kine. it is commonly placed at some distance from the haunts of our species, in order that they who devour the flesh may not be shocked by the sight of the blood.
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n.
1.rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
2.embarrassing circumstances placed outside a fort in order to augment the coy reluctance of the enemy.
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1.rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
2.embarrassing circumstances placed outside a fort in order to augment the coy reluctance of the enemy.
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n. a decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.
n.
1.the temple of the god stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. from women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. they sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. if woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.
2.a shrine enclosing the object.
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1.the temple of the god stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. from women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. they sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. if woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.
2.a shrine enclosing the object.
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n.
1.in law, a crime; in morals, a punishment.
2.a species of invitation without persuasion. see kidnap.
"you act as if you were given," said she,
"to abduction—but pray do not kidnap me."
"oh, well," said that bold and impenitent chap,
"you're the kind of kid i should like to nap."
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1.in law, a crime; in morals, a punishment.
2.a species of invitation without persuasion. see kidnap.
"you act as if you were given," said she,
"to abduction—but pray do not kidnap me."
"oh, well," said that bold and impenitent chap,
"you're the kind of kid i should like to nap."
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n. a religious sect of africa who practiced the virtues of abel. they were unfortunate in flourishing contemporaneously with the cainians, and are now extinct.
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n. any deviation in another from one's own habit of thought, not sufficient in itself to constitute insanity.
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v.i. to treat with merited indifference the landlord's notification that he has let his house to a party willing to pay.
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