“The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” We have extended the wordnestto apply to lots of nest-like things but many of these have their own names. A wasp’s nest is called a vespiary and a bee’s nest ...
“The Arabic form al-kimiya’ is the origin of the word alchemy which is used to denote the science of alchemy which preceded modern chemistry. Kimiya’ without the Article “al” is the origin of the word chemistry. In Arabic the word al-kimiya’ means both alchemy and chemistry, Some c...
And the box sits within a much larger complex, but this is not a religious complex (in the common sense of the word) but rather a technological complex. Its manufacturers are technicians (see Exodus 31:1-11), and note that the words "technology", "textile" and "text" al derive from ...
He used the word in a publication he calledThe Rambler. This was like a blog-for-profit of its day. Johnson produced it twice a week for two years and gave up because it wasn’t making him enough money to be worthwhile. The guy was starving at this point in his life, before the ...
“Diva” hopped over into English usage in the late 1800’s. Its original English definition was very much in keeping with the Italian: basically an extremely talented female opera singer. But over time the usage of the word has expanded and crystalized into something even more grand and ...
The basis for this view, first appeared in the early Qing scholar Yang Bin made Liu Ji, a book, and is seen in the reign of the 翻译结果4复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 On the "Archives" source available in two main points. The first point is that the word "Archives" from the ...
The country’s name is a combination of the word Malay and the Latin-Greek suffix sia. In Malay, the word melayu may have been derived from the Tamil words malai (which means mountain) and ur (which means land). Indian traders during the ancient times used to say “Malaya Dvipa” ...
The word “pantometria” (or “pantometry”) in the title of the treatise is an old term for “metrology,” the scientific study of measurement. In the late 1600s, the OED says, “orthogonal” took on a somewhat wider sense of “relating to or involving right angles; at right angles ...
"kingdom, state governed by a monarch," senses now obsolete, from Old French reigne… See origin and meaning of reign.
"English Saxons," as opposed to those of the Continent (now called Old Saxons). Properly… See origin and meaning of anglo-saxon.