MW Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence, that I could easily believe, that not onely whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels: It is not a new opinion of the Church…
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Felicitate, Felicitated, Felicitating
Sir, I am made of the self mettle as my sister,And prize me at her worth. In my true heartI find she names my very deed of love;Only she comes too short, that I professMyself an enemy to all other…
Words of the Day: March 5 – March 9 2021, Abhor Impunity Meticulous Pivot Luminary
Merriam-Webster: March 5: Abhor And out of dust reduce our scattered rimes,Th’reiected iewels of these slouthfull times,Who with the Muses would mispend an hower,But let blind Gothish Barbarisme deuoureThese feuerous Dogdayes, blest by no record,But to be euerlastingly abhord. Author…
War, Folk, Lord or Men, Hall, Battle?
Beowulf is one of the most important works of Old English literature. Maria Dahvana Headley, translator of Beowulf, tells us that it is both prudent and enjoyable to read more than one translation of the poem, for when it comes…
Contaminate and Uncontaminate
MW I can well compare hym to Dauid, which though he were a man elect of God, yet for that he was contaminate with bloud and warre, he could not build the temple of Ierusalē, but left the finishing therof…
Rabbity
Sometimes, in the distance one sees a black-and-white peasant riding lonely across a more open place, a tiny vivid figure. I like so much the proud instinct which makes a living creature distinguish itself from its background. I hate the…
Salem Witch Trials in Beaumont’s Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices, 1705
John Beaumont, a physician and geologist with an interest in the occult and witchcraft, published An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices in 1705. Explore his account of the events in Salem through…
Gazette
MW I cannot deny that as every Gazette gave us some accounts of the conquests and victories of this glorious prince, it prepossessed my thoughts with secret wishes of seeing him, but these were so young and unsettled, that I…
Deference
MW The consequence I shall draw from this may, at first sight, appear a mere sophism; but upon the least examination will be found solid and satisfactory. I say then, that since we may suppose, but never can conceive a…
Pantechnic
OED These having been sufficiently gazed at, and beginning to lose their attractiveness except for the flies, and, truly, the boys also (in whom I find it impossible to repress, even during school-hours, certain oral and telegraphic communications concerning the…