1 archaic :deceitful, deceptive. 2 archaic : capable of being deceived. What does deceiving someone mean? intransitive verb. : to make someone believe something that is not true : to practice deceit also : to givea false impression appearances can deceive. ...
2. Archaic A vessel or basin, especially one used for washing. [Middle English, water pitcher, from Old French laveoir, probably from Late Latin lavātōrium; see lavatory.] What is an example of Titanic? An example of the Titanic isthe liner that hit an iceberg causing a huge loss of ...
In practice, archaic connections between the symbolic and the real persist in such issues as flag desecration, claiming for national emblems a sanctity reserved in other cultures for purely religious ones. Religious symbols have generated passions of their own. when latterday Catholic Andres Serrano ...
It’s not hard to find the geographic center of a square and Mercer County is very nearly a square. Later, I lived inSaskatchewan, Canada. It’s another jurisdiction which presents little challenge when looking for its center. Saskatchewan’s motto, “Easy to draw; hard to spell”, tells ...
According to Cameron (2013), “It’s important to spell [words] correctly.” We use “sic” only when we want to reproduce the original text exactly, complete with errors. One example where we could do this is when quoting a source that use archaic spellings: ...
Homophones occur in English because there are multiple ways to spell the same sound. For example:The sound of /n/ can be spelled with the letter N or the letter combination KN, resulting in the homophones night and knight. The sound of /ā/ can be spelled A-consonant-E or AY (among ...
Before and during the American Revolution, the English, both in England and in the colonies, mostly spoke with a rhotic accent. The explanation lies in the fact that all emigrant languages have a tendency to linguistic nostalgia – that is they tend to preserve archaic forms of pronunciation lo...
Yet many of the verbs depicted in the literature as impossible, non-occurring, or -- as in Whorf's label for unsay and unmake -- "semi-archaic" are readily attested, even when the actions they denote may be physically irreversible. While the Pullum/Whorf view may be extended to predict ...
This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1890 Field and Tuer edition. HOW TO FAIL IN LITERATURE: A LECTURE BY ANDREW LANG PREFACE This Lecture was delivered at the South Kensington Museum, in aid of the College for Wor
Occasionally, I copy and paste poetry to a document in Page, but am often blighted by the sight of those annoying red dots that appear below words that were written, albeit in English, that suited the style of the poet?The simple question is: how do I remove those annoying red dots?