Famous figures: Bacon, Locke, Rousseau《The Confessions》 instruct: 指导 instructor 辅导员 cycle of instruction 教学周期 punctuate vt.增强,介入,加标点 underline: 增强 fortify: 增强(工事) intensify: 强化 preach sermon missionary: 带着任务到国外传教 defendant n. 被告 (plaintiff: 原告 prosecutor: 原...
farmers. John was killed duringBacon’srebellion of 1676. David survived. This family later built their home at Tusculum in Amherst county. It was here that William H. Crawford, the Senator for Georgia and 1824 Presidential candidate, was born. ...
, which represents an earlier borrowing of the Latin word; earlier in English in the sense of "security" was sikerhede (early 13c.); sikernesse (c. 1200). Sir Thomas Browne uses securement; Francis Bacon and Mrs. Browning have secureness. Surety is a doublet, via French. The meaning...
The meaning "decisive, critical, finally disproving one of two alternative suppositions" (1830) is extended from a logical term,Instantias Crucis,adopted by Francis Bacon (1620); the notion is of cross fingerboard signposts at forking roads, thus a requirement to choose. ...
The form of the word was influenced in Middle English by Old Frenchriche"wealthy, magnificent, sumptuous," which is, with Spanishrico, Italianricco, from Frankish*riki"powerful," or some other cognate Germanic word. Old English also had a noun,rice"rule, reign, power, might; authority; empi...
Originating in 1888 as an emphatic form of "no," this word emphasizes refusal with a pronounced closing of the lips.
The usual Anglo-Saxon word ishide(n.1). The meaning "epidermis of a living animal or person" is attested from early 14c.; extended to fruits, vegetables, etc. late 14c. Jazz slang sense of "drum" is from 1927. As short forskinheadfrom 1970. As an adjective, it formerly had a slan...
descriptions of practice are cut off. So there remaineth nothing to fill the aphorisms but some good quantity of observation : and therefore no man can suffice, nor in reason will attempt, to write aphorisms, but he that is sound and grounded. [Francis Bacon, "The Advancement of Learning,"...
The transitive meaning "drive out or away or into the open by means of smoke" is attested from 1590s. Of chimneys, etc., "admit smoke outward instead of drawing it upward," 1660s. The meaning "to apply smoke to, to cure (bacon, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke" is attested from...
"bark of a tree or other plant," also figurative; also "a crust, firm outer coating or… See origin and meaning of rind.