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  • Excepting his quaint epithets which he affects to render literally from the Greek, a language above all others blest in the happy marriage of sweet words, and which in our language are mere printer's compound epithets -- such as quaffed divine Literary Remains, Volume 1
  • Thoas rules [8] the land, o'er barbarians, [Thoas,] who guiding his foot swift as the pinion, has arrived at this epithet [of Thoas, i.e. _the swift_] on account of his fleetness of foot. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
  • When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word.
  • He noticed that most of the other words were racist epithets or the standard obscenities.
  • It is pretty clear that they were to some extent under the influence of pique and irritation when they noticed his deviations from the established faith, and applied to him the epithet of "babbler;" but Paul was not the man to be put down either by irony or insult; and at length it was found necessary to allow him a fair opportunity of explaining his principles. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
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  • Judging by the epithet you've awarded him, I take it you weren't unduly impressed.
  • The reason for this highly appreciative epithet is probably that de Gennes has succeeded in perceiving common features in order phenomena in very widely differing physical systems, and has been able to formulate rules for how such systems move from order to disorder. Press Release: The 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • A Cordelier has no hesitation in applying the epithet of blasphemer to a Dominican who says that the Holy Virgin was born in original sin, notwithstanding that the Dominicans have a bull from the pope which permits them to teach the maculate conception in their convents, and that, besides this bull, they have in their forum the express declaration of St. Thomas Aquinas. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Politically he was naïvely ambitious and factious; he owes the epithet ‘Good’ only to his patronage of men of letters, including Lydgate and Capgrave.
  • Over the next seven decades, as pro sports increasingly became the city's remaining portal into the nation's consciousness, you could add the epithet "boorish" to "boring" -- there were snowballs at Santa Claus (sort of) and catcalls for just about anyone. Will Bunch: How Philadelphia Got Its Groove Back -- And Why N.Y. Is Jealous
  • The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed The Golden Bough
  • The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed "thunder-besom" is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
  • One of the places in which Dawg lives is Chiapas State where the term "gringo" is considered a racial epithet so when you are looking around down there for Dawg to buy me some cerveza, please refrain from canvassing locals for the "fat gringo from Alabama often seen hanging out in the barrio plaza" or they might think you are disdaining me. S.O.S.E. Security - Chapala
  • Davie qualifies bold assertions and subordinate escape-clauses, paradoxical epithets and sentences opening with an adversative link.
  • Typically, those are paraphrased into something we can understand, but this epithet, which is arguably worse in motive than those, gets printed.
  • The usual way to do this is to fling vile epithets, to call opprobrious names, to make shameful charges. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
  • This conversation has the effect of reviving my old questions not about the war itself — of which I disapproved from the first day, and of which my analysis hasn't varied at all — but about these strange characters whom we in France stubbornly persist in demonizing ( "princes of darkness") or ridiculing with simplistic epithets ( "neo-cons," which can also mean, in French, "neo-dummies"), but who aren't quite as uni-dimensional as they may seem. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
  • In critiquing his poems, reviewers substituted epithets for analysis.
  • If there was no man in the house at the time these unwelcome visitors made their calls the female inmates were often greatly frightened, for the mendicants, if they were refused help, were not particular in the choice of their epithets.
  • The southeastern portion of the island of Newfoundland, as may be seen by a glance at the map, may be well described by that expressive epithet of "nook-shotten," which in Shakspeare is applied to the mother-island of which it is a dependent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
  • Such differences as exist among media do not warrant harsher treatment of threats, slurs, epithets, or harassing language because they occur in digital form.
  • Mrs Constable interposed with one single emphatic epithet, not admittable to the ears of this generation; but Andrew resumed, and went on. Alec Forbes of Howglen
  • Chapman's "fourteener" and reminding the reader frequently of Chapman's large, vigorous manner, his compound epithets and spacious Homeric similes. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • After several years of financial crisis, during which the word banker had become a catchall epithet for the undeserving rich, the global economy appeared to be on the mend. NYT > Home Page
  • Ye haue another vicious speech which the Greekes call Acyron, we call it the vncouthe, and is when we vse an obscure and darke word, and vtterly repugnant to that we would expresse, if it be not by vertue of the figures metaphore, allegorie, abusion, or such other laudable figure before remembred, as he that said by way of Epithete. The Arte of English Poesie
  • Another Committee of Fourteen investigator in 1914 observed the loose behavior of women workers in a restaurant: “They were putting on their aprons, combing their hair, powdering their noses, . . . all the while tossing back and forth to each other, apparently in a spirit of good-natured comradeship, the most vile epithets that I had ever heard emerge from the lips of a human being.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • Alliteration abounds, pithy epithets are the order of the day, the cliches of journalese are flowing till we're all blue in the face.
  • Racial epithets were scrawled on the walls.
  • Kids of all colors flocked to see Reggie Hammond (Murphy), the cool black dude with his Armani threads and Porsche wheels, outslick Jack Cates (Nick Nolte), the slob honky cop with his gangrened convertible and epithetgrowling mouth. The Boys Are Back In Town
  • The first effort of the corruptionist is to fix the epithet speculative upon any scheme which he thinks may cherish the spirit of reform. Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
  • The epithets chart a subtle change in perception of the state, from dull, square outland to parking lot for middle-class transients.
  • They dismiss such work as nihilist or antiscience, and hurl epithets like ‘number-phobic’ and ‘jargon-monger’ at its authors.
  • Since its first coming into use the term atheism has been very vaguely employed, generally as an epithet of accusation against any system that called in question the popular gods of the day. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • There are brief mentions of how Washington's punch resulted in him receiving death threats, many of them inflected with racial epithets.
  • “I am surprised, Steerforth—although your candour does you honour, ” said Mr. Creakle, “does you honour, certainly—I am surprised, Steerforth, I must say, that you should attach such an epithet to any person employed and paid in Salem House, Sir. VII. My “First Half” at Salem House
  • The statue of Etienne Marcel at the City Hall in Paris recalls one of the many instances of the resistance of the city to corrupt administration and it was under one of the most autocratic and greatest of monarchs, Louis XIV, that the Parisian earned the distinctive epithet of 'frondeur' to describe his quickness to resent any encroachment on the part of authority upon his civil rights and liberties. A Royalist Fiasco
  • ‘Master’ and ‘slave’ are ordinary English words, not epithets, and it's absurd to try and ban them from common usage.
  • To this latter form of peloria it is proposed to give the distinctive epithet of irregular. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases.
  • So when he starts to verbally assault Zack, hurling painful epithets at him, one feels disoriented since they seemed to get along in school.
  • So "birdbrain" is apparently as accurate an epithet as "eats like a bird" applies to delicate appetites. Bird brains
  • The warriors are all under arrest now: despite the quite audible and frequent use of racial epithets, the RCMP is still investigating whether or not the attack was racially motivated. Archive 2009-07-01
  • If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
  • Policy wonk, nerdy control freak, bureaucrat-in-chief, charisma-free bore and junketeer are some of the kinder epithets the whingeing Aussies have applied to the man.
  • The film is long and dramatic but does not quite earn the epithet 'epic'.
  • He sipped his ultra-reinforced Ovaltine, wishing the janitor could bring himself to quit using epithets of dubious Latin pedigree. RC: How the Criten Got the Keys, Grubbage « Unknowing
  • Again, I would like to ask the reader about his judgment towards Israel, which in two consecutive weeks, found itself quarrelling with both Sweden and Norway; in other words, a militarist occupying country, founded on the myths of the Torah, is facing off with two Scandinavian countries - the practical epithets of humanity, peace and civilization - in ethical issues. Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • 34 The Ruine of Rome was punctuated with belligerent language of this sort, and Dent used "papist" and "Romish" as the worst of epithets. Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation
  • The former epithet is apt, the latter less so.
  • All this madness yet proceeds from ourselves, the main engine which batters us is from others, we are merely passive in this business: from a company of parasites and flatterers, that with immoderate praise, and bombast epithets, glossing titles, false eulogiums, so bedaub and applaud, gild over many a silly and undeserving man, that they clap him quite out of his wits. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • He was essentially a "theorist" -- that word now of so much sanctity, formerly an epithet of contempt. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
  • Likewise, people consistently use two-word epithets to designate specific organisms within a larger group of organisms, despite there being an infinitude of potentially more logical methods.
  • The opera-singer's 104-kilo frame has earned him the epithet of 'Man Mountain' in the press.
  • For besides petitioner and abhorrer, appellations which were soon forgotten, this year is remarkable for being the epoch of the well-known epithets of "whig" and "tory", by which, and sometimes without any material difference, this island has been so long divided. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II.
  • The racial epithet is a botched way of advancing a deep ideological necessity for Al Qaeda: to keep its narrative going, Zawahiri has to define Obama as not authentically American. You Hurt Yourself | ATTACKERMAN
  • I learnt that because of your game, you had picked up several endearing epithets.
  • Just as the peaceful country-dweller calls the sea-rover a "pirate," and the stout burgher calls the man who breaks into his strong-box a "robber," so the selfish laborer applies the opprobrious epithet "scab" to the laborer who takes from him food and shelter by being more generous in the disposal of his labor-power. THE SCAB
  • This "tar baby" epithet is just the latest in an intermittent string of racialized stunts, deployed in dog-whistle fashion -- usually by folks on the right, to inject culturally divisive sentiments into an already vitriolic public discourse. James Peterson: Tea Party Tar Babies
  • Talking of odd words, the latest _boutade_ over here is to find new names and epithets for our dress materials -- some of them quite weird. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919
  • Plus, it just sounds better as a trisyllabic epithet. Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor
  • We tend to confine moral epithets to those amiable or unamiable qualities which require more cultivation to become habitual, or depend to a greater extent upon the presence or absence of self-discipline.
  • One feels that the specific nature of a ‘title’ is being confused with more general epithets common in heroic poetry.
  • Forms of address, epithets, and pronoun references that signal service and status, then clashes of rank, also get interwoven.
  • In Sanskrit, the Moon has many names and epithets.
  • These epithets are deserved by a great many faces, but on very different grounds; and the praise is a different thing, accordingly. Queechy
  • According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.
  • No one has noticeably booed her cast epithets or personal vituperation in public as far as I know — because her audiences have been pre-selected to be friendly. Think Progress » Palin’s talk show debut garners weak reviews, lower-than-expected ratings.
  • Bias in nouns does not stop with epithets.
  • The president stood beside a parcel of cleared ground near the White House, preparing to lay the cornerstone of a federal office building and to plant an enduring epithet on investigative journalism.
  • I understand the city has a rich history of standing up for freedom, but is the freedom to hurl curses and racial epithets at visiting collegiate athletes really one worth fighting for?
  • Khalifah is a Fallah-grazioso of normal assurance shrewd withal; he blunders like an Irishman of the last generation and he uses the first epithet that comes to his tongue. Arabian nights. English
  • These circumstances combined to attach to the term villain ideas of crime and guilt, in so forcible a manner that the application of the epithet even to those to whom it legally belonged became an affront, and was abstained from whenever no affront was intended. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • The President of the French Representative Council of Black Associations has met with Reverend Al Sharpton after Jean-Paul Guerlain, the former perfumer for the Guerlain fragrance house, used a racial epithet on television, WWD reports. Al Sharpton To Travel To Paris After Jean-Paul Guerlain's Racial Remarks
  • Impossible!" was Mr. Hale's rejoinder, when I had read the item aloud; but the incident evidently weighed upon his mind, for late in the afternoon, with many epithets denunciatory of his foolishness, he asked me to acquaint the police with the affair. The Minions of Midas
  • In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within.
  • I like unexaggerated intercourse; it is not my way to overpower with amorous epithets, any more than to worry with selfishly importunate caresses. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Perhaps you shout epithets that would make Quentin Tarantino blush.
  • The term "queer" was once an epithet, before gays and lesbians deliberately repatriated it for themselves. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Thames watermen and Tyne keelmen in particular acquired an astounding proficiency in the choice and application of abusive epithets, but of the two the keelman carried off the palm. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • Now those in whom nature is the cause of such a state no one would call incontinent, any more than one would apply the epithet to women because of the passive part they play in copulation; nor would one apply it to those who are in a morbid condition as a result of habit. The Nicomachean Ethics
  • Epithets of ‘statesman’ were thrown around, but charlatan or mountebank might have been more appropriate.
  • For example, one of the Canaanite epithets of Asherah, elat, “goddess,” is etymologically identical to the Hebrew word for the terebinth tree (ela). Asherah/Asherim: Bible.
  • Instances of the word are not frequent, possibly because we had another word for empty (_toom_) in common with the Danes; but perhaps there was no necessity for dwelling upon it in the sense of _empty_; it was only its application as an epithet to a _concave_ or _hollow shield_ that your question could have had in view. Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850
  • The species-level epithet of your snail is adjectivalaeneus, -a, -um: L. of copper, ergo Strobilops aeneus Pilsbry, 1926 - not S. Strobilops aenea
  • I think this is similar to the technique of assigning epithets, often poetic, to various characters in oral tradition, such as these examples from Orphic Hymns: "Poseidon, ruler of the sea profound, dark-haired, whose waves begirt the solid ground" or "Righteous Themis, with sagacious eyes. Oral Tradition, Epithets, and J.D. Robb
  • Either she'll be touched to be rediscovered or she'll be very, very indignant and hurl ethnocentric epithets.
  • And jeers to Macleans for priggishly mutilating a perfectly respectful and disciplined dialogue merely for the sake of suppressing the occurrence of an epithet–used in a purely analytical context–certainly no more offensive than that which sparked the controversy this thread is discussing. When keeping it partisan goes wrong (IV) - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca
  • Some people consider the term "tar baby" to be a racial epithet. FOXNews.com
  • The normal way round is the creation of an identifying tag, normally by a pertinent epithet or nickname - hence I would become Fat James, or Green James, or Elf.
  • The term nipper tipping is a combination of the WWII epithet for the Japanese and the childish prank of tipping sleeping cows. Silly Immigrants, Canada Is For White People
  • The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed “thunder-besom” is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning. Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
  • Stand and fight," he shouted, adding an unprintable epithet. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • I feel that we really don't need to insult our readers' intelligence with explanatory epithets and inner psychological exegeses. Vamsee Juluri: Lord Shiva And The Economist: A New Low For Journalism
  • The white supremacists, many of them wearing flack helmets and military fatigue uniforms, shouted "Sieg Heil" before each of their speakers took the podium to taunt counter-protesters with racial, anti-Semitic and misogynistic epithets. Taipei Times
  • The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed “thunder-besom” is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning. The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
  • Till the time consumerism ceases to be a pejorative epithet in India, let's learn to play by the rules and with fellow-feeling. To Nano or not to Nano
  • Neither is there in the epithet leukos, not "albus" but "candidus," anything which renders this unlikely here, but rather the contrary; a diamond, for instance, being of the purest glistering white. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
  • As a general thing, we understand that the person to whom the epithet is applied is a lazy, lumpy bumpkin. Janey Canuck in the West
  • The only old person whom I've heard to use racial epithets in English "wetback" is a woman who grew up in New Jersey and New York City. "Congress can impose this disparate treatment forever because of the history in the South?"
  • The delicacy and the dignity of meaning attaching to the word render it an epithet especially appropriate to Beatrice, as implying all that is loveliest in person and character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
  • Note the epithet translated 'disordering'; we shall meet the word ταραχη The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
  • In fact, normally the opposite sort of epithet is applied: "dork" or "nerd" have frequently been flung at me (and accepted with pride). SF Signal Welcomes Terry Weyna
  • He borrowed from every one of the pupils -- I don't know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine -- and even from old Nosey's groom, -- pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), -- even from the doctor's groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action. The Newcomes
  • But her reception was worse than that of Macready, for not content with shouts and yells they heaped disgusting epithets on her, and were so vulgar in their ribaldry that she flew in affright from the stage, "blushing," it was said, "even through the rouge on her face. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
  • But Scalito is a different kind of onomastic blend: an epithet combining elements of two names to suggest a resemblance of one named person to the other.
  • Likewise, people consistently use two-word epithets to designate specific organisms within a larger group of organisms, despite there being an infinitude of potentially more logical methods.
  • _metaphore, allegorie, abusion_, or such other laudable figure before remembred, as he that said by way of _Epithete_. The Arte of English Poesie
  • One of them has _three_ golf-courses of its own; several are _replete_ with every comfort (and is not "replete" the perfect epithet?). Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.
  • Such reviews were neither rare nor original in their remoulding of "mechanical" as a derogatory epithet to describe a genre that deployed a recognizable collection of supernatural tropes. Haunted Britain in the 1970s
  • There, they began hurling epithets toward Wheateye, now jumping up and down and screaming on her coalshed roof. The Dollmaker
  • The species name is called the epithet of the species, and they are always printed in italics, by convention.
  • When there was any riot in the streets, I fled, and scougged myself at the chimley-lug as quickly as I dowed; and, rather than double a nieve to a schoolfellow, I pocketed many shabby epithets, got my paiks, and took the coucher's blow from laddies that could hardly reach up to my waistband. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
  • Most people, including therapists, can tolerate nearly any epithet about themselves except that they are humorless.
  • In Germany, for example, the term Anglo-Saxon is often bandied about as an epithet for political demagoguery to represent free market ideology. Edward Harrison: The recession is over but the depression has just begun
  • Every kind of contumelious reproach is heaped on the heads of the working men who dare to replace him when he strikes; and he does not scruple to use under such conditions weapons more convincing than the most opprobrious epithets. The Promise of American Life
  • The epithet, though, makes this exciting band seem much more gimmicky and limited than they really are. Times, Sunday Times
  • The woman begins to hurl racial epithets at them and goes as far as to hit one of the students.
  • Then the reporter throws in this stuff: The bridge "may carry motorless people in such a way as to eliminate scraped knees and the hurled epithet. Jack Bog's Blog: August 2009 Archives
  • -- French Tr. [34] Literally the passage would run, "Feed me, I pray thee, with that red, that read," the word pottage being understood. "the repetition of the epithet, and the omission of the substantive, indicated the extreme haste and eagerness of the asker. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
  • The epithet post-dates the death of Akhenaten, who kept his monotheistic faith until the end.
  • The male then fertilizes the eggs and the female keeps them in her mouth for a few days until they hatch, thus earning the epithet mouth-brooder.
  • He noticed that most of the other words were racist epithets or the standard obscenities.
  • This drear December day finds Backword in curmudgeonly mood, barely able to string two words together without an epithet or at least a ‘bah’ or a ‘humbug.’
  • Among them was Bill Shankly accompanied, even here, by what have become his defining epithets: ‘the legend, the genius, the man‘.
  • There is no epithet deficit when it comes to describing today's crisis of business leadership: greedy, unethical, and myopic appear regularly on the adjectival hot list.
  • There is a kind of infiniteness in it, nothing can express it but itself no name worse than itself to set it out, the apostle can get no other epithet to it, Rom.vii. 13, than “sinful” sin, so that it cometh in most direct opposition unto God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Actually, these epithets are quite unjust: Her sexuality serves primarily as a means of expression of her soul, and her eroticism verges more on mysticism than on carnality.
  • Descriptive botanists recognise this occurrence in the case of leaves, and apply the epithet heterophyllous to plants possessed of these variable foliar characters. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • They came here expecting to hear taunts and the occasional indelicate epithet from the stands. A hero from obscurity
  • His complexion might in itself be called effeminate, its bloom was so fresh and delicate; but there was so much of boldness and energy in the play of his countenance, the hardy outline of the lips, and the open breadth of the forehead, that "effeminate" was an epithet no one ever assigned to his aspect. The Parisians — Complete
  • So, the next time a politician or political party complains about activist judges, you’re simply hearing an epithet used by the addlebrained for a ruling they don’t like. A Progressive on the Prairie » Exposing the myth of so-called activist judges » Print
  • The specific epithet amorphophallus refers to the central spadix of the arum, and essentially means amorphous phallus, or shapeless penis.
  • The epithet 'unbred' was accredited upon the quoted sayings and doings of the pretentious young person's aunt, repeated abroad by noblemen and gentlemen present when she committed herself; and the same were absurd. Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3
  • He has scenes where he strikes the audience dumb with epithet filled tirades, using words you know he can't spell, but he sure as shizzle can say.
  • It is the descriptive epithet for bitter or scornful laughter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Regarding not understanding the difference between Down's and Cerebral Palsy - when I was a kid, the epithets "mongo" (as in "mongoloid," as in the outdated, offensive word for a person with Down's syndrome) and "spastic" (as in the offensive word for a person with Cerebral Palsy) were used interchangably as schoolyard insults. Please avoid 'this' phrasae & the Xmas Craft Fair Sannich
  • He uses too many Latin epithets, like _amusive_ and _precipitant_, and calls a fish-line Brief History of English and American Literature
  • [270: 1] "Cilician," or "Corycean," were the established classical epithets to use when speaking of the Saffron. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
  • And then there's The Wire, where "twentysomething" is an epithet in David Simon's idealized Baltimore Sun newsroom. Scott Brown: The Wire and Cloverfield: Bad Weekend for 20-Somethings
  • III. vi.86 (243,5) T.at nothing-gift of differing multitudes] [T. deferring] He is followed by Sir T. HANMER and Dr. WARBURT.N; but I do not see why _differing_ may not be a general epithet, and the expression equivalent to the _many-headed_ rabble. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • They don't actually do the deed, or even attempt it, but the book is - according to early snippets - replete with deep-seated anger and elegantly nasty epithets hurled at both the President and his cabinet.
  • He imitated Homer not only in metre but also in features of style: the use of identifying epithets and stylized repetition, for instance, and the positioning of powerful, self-standing, similes at key points in the narrative.
  • These epithets grow ever more presumptuous, ever more patronising in the context of an ever more factional, furcated society. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
  • And just as the Inuit have many words for snow, we have a plethora of epithets for excrement, ranging all the way from the gutlessly genteel to the egregiously gross.
  • I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender. Love’s Labour ’s Lost
  • But the warning being against lasciviousness, the contrast to "whoremongers and adulterers" in the parallel clause, requires the "in all" in this clause to refer to persons. the bed undefiled -- Translate, as Greek requires "undefiled" to be a predicate, not an epithet, "And let the bed be undefiled. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • There is an important sense, however, in which the epithet "material" has been applied to reasoning, to denote illation in which the relational formality has not yet been dissected out. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • These are dreadful days indeed, my worthy neighbour’ (this epithet indicated a rapid advance in the Baronet’s good graces) —‘days when the bulwarks of society are shaken to their mighty base, and that rank, which forms, as it were, its highest grace and ornament, is mingled and confused with the viler parts of the architecture. Chapter XLII
  • I doubt whether the epithet _historical_ can properly apply to the character of Lady Macbeth; for though the subject of the play be taken from history, we never think of her with any reference to historical associations, as we do with regard to Constance, Volumnia, Katherine of Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
  • From the deep structure of transferred epithet, its internal language meaning can be tenable.
  • After last season's playoff loss to the Pacers, vandals spray-painted racial epithets in Iverson's backyard.
  • In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within.
  • The film is long and dramatic but does not quite earn the epithet 'epic'.
  • It is the descriptive epithet for bitter or scornful laughter. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Cheap' and 'classless' are just two of the kinder epithets hurled at the linebacker.
  • They have been called the unaesthetic, as well as the lower, senses; but the propriety of these epithets, which is undeniable, is due not to any intrinsic sensuality or baseness of these senses, but to the function which they happen to have in our experience. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
  • He has also much fertility in epithets; these being fitted to their objects properly and naturally have the force of proper names, as when he gives to the several gods each some proper designation, so he calls Zeus the “all-wise and high thundering,” and the Sun, Hyperion, “advancing aloft,” and Apollo, Phoebus, that is, shining. Essays and Miscellanies
  • He borrowed from every one of the pupils — I don’t know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine — and even from old Nosey’s groom, — pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), — even from the doctor’s groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action. The Newcomes
  • Few men have more exquisitely tasted of glory and disgrace; nor could Juvenal (Satir. x.) produce a more striking example of the vicissitudes of fortune, and the vanity of human wishes.] 3 This last epithet of Procopius is too nobly translated by pirates; naval thieves is the proper word; strippers of garments, either for injury or insult, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Undeserved appellations and humiliating epithets divest him of his self-esteem.
  • The school of Buddhism now professed in Ceylon, Burma and Siam is often called Sinhalese and (provided it is not implied that its doctrines originated in Ceylon) the epithet is correct. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
  • At the United Nations, the decidedly nondiplomatic epithets “blasphemy” and “defamation of Islam” have become part of normal discourse, serving as convenient instruments for shutting off discussion of such unpleasant matters as slavery in Sudan or Muslim anti-Semitism. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1002
  • We cannot suppose that Shakspeare used epithets so weakening as "delighting" or Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
  • In some respects this enthusiasm for the Middle Ages and for Gothic architecture in particular was a matter of fashion: thus Parisian letters of 1834 record as superlatives current in the salons — alongside such curiosities as pyramidale, babylonien, and apocalyptique — the epithets gothique, ogival, and flamboyant. CONCEPT OF GOTHIC
  • St. Augustine nor Calvin denied the remanence of the will in the fallen spirit; but they, and Luther as well as they, objected to the flattering epithet 'free' will. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Mr. Stein spells out his reasoning better than most "chickenhawk"-callers, but that matters not; it's just as erroneous when the Right uses that epithet as when the Left does it. August 2006
  • Now, ¡Ay, caramba! might not be as popular or as peculiarly Mexican a swear as, say, "pinche puto pendejo baboso," ¡Cu-le-ro! "or the many epithets derived from the word mamá (mother), but Mexicans do say it - but nowadays not as often as gabachos would love to believe, Bart Simpson catchphrase notwithstanding. Houston Press | Complete Issue
  • It is eminently in accordance with the signification of the English epithet -- rather a favorite, apparently, with our old writers -- the epithet jovial, which is derived from the Latin name of its head. Mosaics of Grecian History
  • an unprintable epithet
  • There were outpourings of prejudice and hatred, fantasies of violence accompanied by curses and epithets, psychotic rhapsodies, monologues of suicide and self-mutilation.
  • Btw, my 'girl friend' of 55 years (with a fully signed up licence for 52 of 'em) also comments hereupon, so watch your nuts! She can break them with few well crafted epithets from 150 miles - no sweat! Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • But Orly Taitz, an attorney who is the most prominent face of the birther movement, has disavowed the word, writing in a legal motion that is part of a case challenging Obama's authority as commander in chief that birther is "a pejorative appellation" that is "often coupled with even more colorful epithets. NYT > Home Page
  • [9] Hooker, as may be discerned from the epithet of arch-philosopher applied to the Stagyrite, 'sensu monarchico', was of the latter family, -- a comprehensive, vigorous, discreet, and discretive conceptualist, -- but not an ideist. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • He was to the last plain and blunt; at this time I can easily believe him to have been so to a degree which Scott might look upon as "ungracious" -- I take the epithet from one of his letters to James Ballantyne. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
  • I know something of those whom we in Italy call improvisatori; and I could speak in this oriental style for eight hours together without the least effort, for it requires none to be bombastic in negligent verse, overloaded with epithets almost continually repeated, to heap combat upon combat, and to describe chimeras.” A Philosophical Dictionary
  • He uses too many Latin epithets, like _amusive_ and From Chaucer to Tennyson
  • He was essentially a 'theorist' -- that word now of so much sanctity, formerly an epithet of contempt. Mellonta Tauta
  • Unpleasant epithets, abuses, unprintable words and curses were being shot at each other with anger-soaked bullets.
  • But she recommended the Parliament to conciliatory measures; to avoid extremes; to drop offensive epithets, like "papist" and "heretic;" to go as far as the wants of the nation required, and no farther. Beacon Lights of History
  • Another coaeval of those days calls him handsome ” an epithet I should hardly apply to him later ” slight, not tall, sharp featured, with dark hair well tended, always modishly dressed after the fashion of the thirties, the fashion of Bulwer's exquisites, or of H.K. Browne's Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
  • His delight in battle arises solely from the loss of a beloved wife, and sadly calculated was the end of the beautiful Mrs Macduff to make the most serious impression on a husband's mind, all the more so, perhaps, in that so fully did she merit that epithet _beautiful_ which was always attached to her name. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
  • Among the birds enumerated by Kuhn and others as representing the storm-cloud are likewise the wren or "kinglet" (French roitelet); the owl, sacred to Athene; the cuckoo, stork, and sparrow; and the red-breasted robin, whose name Robert was originally an epithet of the lightning-god Thor. Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
  • Allow me to say, in reference to this matter, I regret that you have brought it about, but it is true that this epithet "disunionist" is likely soon to have very little terror in it in the South. American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896)
  • And I use the word ‘bloody’ not as a redundant and offensive epithet, but as a statement of fact.
  • In short, valuing for the increment added by improvements, if not an everyday occurrence, is by no means so odd as to attract the opprobrious epithet ‘impractical’.
  • 'Whom, when we sporting gentlemen are absent, you call blacklegs, rooks, Grecians, and other pleasant epithets. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
  • Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases.
  • I don't consider morons hurling ‘gay’ as an epithet the same as normal people misperceiving someone as being gay when they are not.
  • Possibly, we tend to confine moral epithets to those amiable or unamiable qualities which require more cultivation to become habitual, or depend to a greater extent upon the presence or absence of self-discipline.
  • The term banana is a racial epithet typically used in a derogatory fashion to imply that someone is “yellow (Asian/American) on the outside, white on the inside;” synonyms include Twinkie Thematic change. « Love | Peace | Ohana
  • Many of the poets when they make mention of the nightingale (Philomela) apply to the bird the epithet Daulian. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • However, the point is that like ‘queer’ the epithet can be reappropriated by those against whom it is used, and subverted into a positive term, indicating that those who cast it as a pejorative are the ones whose honour should be doubted, and mercantile privilege questioned. Pirate: the definition
  • It's sometimes hurled in an epithet, sometimes spoken with pride.
  • The distinction between the two modes in which the parts of the flower are increased in number has been pointed out by Engelmann, Moquin, and others, and the two seem to require distinctive epithets; hence the application of the terms polyphylly and pleiotaxy, as here proposed. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • The term became widely known after the film based on the novel was released in 1963, and it quickly became an epithet for rude, self-centered people who roamed the world with utter disregard—even disdain—for other cultures. ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS
  • The earlier copyist leaves off the first instance of the epithet, creating an ambiguity that a Christian could only read as referring to James the Jerusalem pillar, which reading a second scribe made explicit, or added as marginalia that was subsequently incorporated into the text, a well-attested source of interpolated material. More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels
  • On the left-breaking, par-five thirteenth, after a particularly frustrating midiron from the fairway, she let out what sounded like an epithet. The Italian Summer
  • Epithets can be abusive: You clumsy fool! epitome A short summary of a speech or book.
  • Theobald replaced the meaningless epithet 'besom' by A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
  • I got smart enough this time around to at least turn off general chat, which spares me a lot of grousing about whatever sexist/racist epithet is being flung about this particular hour. So fucking typical « Love | Peace | Ohana

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