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…
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…
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…
Turbid
MW It made him feel, in the turbid coil of his fears and passions, like a muddy tramp forcing his way into some pure sequestered shrine… He came nearer, and looked at her, and she went to him. All her…
Slipshod
MW …but there in its usual slipshod way memory failed. Author and Text I watched, too, with the fascination that things have for an observant boy, the play of his lips–they were a little oblique, and there was something “slipshod,”…
Fathom
MW “When the late Captain Audley Coote was laying the cable from New Caledonia to Sandy Cape, at the north end of Fraser Island, on the South Queensland coast, he passed a submerged mountain 6000 feet in height, and found…
Habeas Corpus
MW The catastrophe was terrific and instantaneous in its effect. The observatory of Dunsink registered in all eleven shocks, all of the fifth grade of Mercalli’s scale, and there is no record extant of a similar seismic disturbance in our…