hesychius has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 1 list, listed 14 words, written 11 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 1 word.
hesychius has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 1 list, listed 14 words, written 11 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 1 word.
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hesychius commented on the word nitescence
Quand on suivait, comme un fil de la Vierge dans l’air rose du matin, l’espèce de nitescence qui courait au profil de ses cheveux d’ambre pàle jusqu’à la nacre de ses épaules, on aurait cru à une fantaisie de Raphaël, tracée avec quelque merveilleux fusain d’argent sur du papier de soie couleur de chair. —Barbey d’Aurevilly, Une vieille maîtresse (1851), in Œuvres romanesques (Pléiade, Gallimard, 1966) 223.
July 3, 2009
hesychius commented on the word nitescence
Malgré son physique encore très enfantin, elle <Lolita> irradiait une sorte de nitescence langoureuse … —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (trad. par Maurice Couturier).
July 3, 2009
hesychius commented on the word nitescence
Ses yeux se mouillent aisément avant le plaisir; ils étincellent et s’enduisent d’une vague nitescence; on croirait qu’il va tout aimer. —Sainte-Beuve, Volupté (Les Belles Lettres, 1927, orig. 1834) 145.
July 3, 2009
hesychius commented on the word recalcitrate
To kick back, hence to resist. From Latin calx, heel; calcitrare, ‘kick back’ (as a horse does with its hind leg).
July 2, 2009
hesychius commented on the word puterie
What say we also of putours, that liue by the horrible sinne of puterie, and constreine women to yelde him a certain rent of hir bodily puterie, ye sometime his owen wif or his childe. — Chaucer, Parsones Tale.
October 20, 2007
hesychius commented on the word put-log
“One of a number of short pieces of timber about seven feet long, used in building scaffolds. They lie at right angles to the wall, with one of their ends resting upon it, and the other upon the poles which lie parallel to the side of the wall of the building�? (Encyclopædic Dictionary, 1894).
October 20, 2007
hesychius commented on the word pullock
See put-log.
October 20, 2007
hesychius commented on the word pullicat
“A kind of colored, checquered silk handkerchief�? (Encyclopædic Dictionary, 1894). Also pulicat.
October 20, 2007
hesychius commented on the word héautontimorouménos
C’est le titre d’un drame de Térence et d’un poème de Baudelaire.
September 15, 2007
hesychius commented on the list hesychius-s-words
‘Kilter’ and ’kelter’ are variants, mostly in the phrases “out of kilter/kelter�?, “off kelter/kilter�?—not in working condition, awry.
July 12, 2007
hesychius commented on the word ∮
Denotes integration of a function on a closed curve. See the Wikipedia entry for more.
June 28, 2007