Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal variant of
at . - A suffix of French or other Romance origin, properly diminutive in force, as in
billet , billet, bullet, fillet, hatchet, islet, jacket, locket, mallet, pallet, pullet, ticket, etc. - A suffix of Latin origin, another form of -ate, -ad, as in ballet, sallet, sonnet, etc. Compare the doublets ballad, salad, sonata.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
eat . - conjunction obsolete
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Examples
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Huic editio_n_i adiect_us_ e_st_ Index re_rum_ et sente_n_tia_rum_ vetr_is_ _et_ noui testame_nti_.
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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[20] Jules Simon: _Etudes sur la Théodicée de Platon et d'Aristote_, p. 88, _et al. _; Davidson: _Theism and Human Nature_, p. 45.
The Basis of Early Christian Theism Lawrence Thomas Cole
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The idiom is different from the _et pudet et_ construction seen at xv 29 'et pudet et metuo [' I am both embarrassed and afraid '] semperque eademque precari' and _Tr_ V vii 57-58 'et pudet et fateor [' I confess with embarrassment '], iam desuetudine longa/uix subeunt ipsi uerba Latina mihi'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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[34] See Matthiæ, who explains it: "_me et supplicem_, qui mortem deprecetur, _et fortem_, qui mortem contemnat, _dicere licet_."
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Langage et pensée"; in _Année psychologique_ (1908), vol. 14, pp. 284-339.
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Nouvelle théorie psychologique et clinique de la démence"; in _Année psychologique_ (1909), vol. 15, pp. 168-272.
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Application des Méthodes nouvelles au diagnostique du niveau intellectuel chez des enfants normaux et anormaux d'hospice et d'école primaire"; in _Année psychologique_ (1905), vol. 11, pp. 245-336.
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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Masturbation_, pp. 11-18; also, Arthur MacDonald, _Le Criminel Type_, pp. 227 et seq.; cf.G. Stanley Hall, _Adolescence_, vol. i, pp. 432 _et seq.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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In my book _Socialismo et Criminalità_, published in 1883, and which to-day my adversaries, including M. Garofalo (p. 128 _et seq. _), try to oppose to the opinions which I have upheld in my more recent book,
Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) Enrico Ferri 1894
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A. Buhot de Kersers, _Histoire et statistique du département du Cher, canton de Mehun_, Bourges, 1891, in 4to, pp. 261 _et seq.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
madmouth commented on the word et
"'You've et a great big worm!' shrieked Gerald"
-Anne of Windy Poplars
June 1, 2009
bilby commented on the word et
My grandfather said this.
June 1, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word et
Mine too.
June 1, 2009
madmouth commented on the word et
I associate it so strongly with Victorian and fin de siecle primness, but it sounds really rustic for all that.
June 1, 2009
wakaba commented on the word et
wiktionary should read: (colloquial) simple past tense and past participle of eat.
January 22, 2011
bilby commented on the word et
Intriguing Flickr feed.
April 29, 2011
bilby commented on the word et
See ampersand.
April 29, 2011