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| The quality or condition of being scanty or meager |
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something of little value or importance; a trifle.
a game played on a board having holes at one end into which balls are to be struck with a cue. |
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Suggesting the extreme slowness of a glacier.
Lacking warmth and friendliness.
Coldly detached. |
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to punish by a fine.
to defraud especially of money : swindle |
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| proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader (patriarch) that had the force of law |
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| Delivered orally to witnesses rather than written |
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| "to the City [of Rome] and to the World" |
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The word fasces means "bundle" and refers to the fact that it is a bundle of rods, which surrounded an ax in the middle.
symbol of authority. |
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| an external solid angle of a wall or the like. 2. one of the stones forming it; cornerstone often being of large size and dressed or arranged so as to form a decorative contrast with the adjoining walls |
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| a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts. |
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| To suppress or extinguish quietly; stifle |
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| a preface or introduction to a work |
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| marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
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| 1. abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book. 2. given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous. |
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| as claimed by and for yourself often without justification |
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| without result, gain, or advantage; unavailing; useless |
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| An officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking |
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| a disorderly, troublesome, rowdy, or mischievous person |
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| resembling flint; especially : stern, unyielding |
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1. Light good-natured talk; banter.
2. Light or frivolous manner of discussing a subject. |
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| integrity and uprightness; honesty |
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| 1. cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness. 2. liveliness; briskness |
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| A platitude or trite saying. A person who is platitudinous and boring. |
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| lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition. characterized by hackneyed expressions, ideas, etc. |
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| Unwilling to state facts or opinions simply and directly. |
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| ineffective; incompetent; futile |
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| the obligation or the engagement to be faithful to a lord, usually sworn to by a vassal |
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| is a container for relics |
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| Persistent application or diligence |
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to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
to draw up or frame (a statement, proclamation, etc.). |
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| A diagonal mark ( / ) used especially to separate alternatives, as in and/or, to represent the word per, as in miles/hour, and to indicate the ends of verse lines printed continuously, as in Old King Cole/Was a merry old soul. |
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| (pronounced ah-for-she-ory) prep. Latin for "with even stronger reason," which applies to a situation in which if one thing is true then it can be inferred that a second thing is even more certainly true. Thus, if Abel is too young to serve as administrator, then his younger brother Cain certainly is too young. |
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1. Of a pale grayish or bluish green.
from the Latin glaucous, meaning "bluish-grey or green", from the Greek glaukos) is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds |
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Having accidentally killed his uncle Electryon, king of Mycenae, Amphitryon was driven out by another uncle, Sthenelus. He fled with Alcmene, Electryon's daughter, to Thebes, where he was cleansed from the guilt of blood by Creon, his maternal uncle, king of Thebes.
Alcmene, who was pregnant and had been betrothed to Amphitryon by her father, refused to marry him until he had avenged the death of her brothers, all of whom except one had fallen in battle against the Taphians. It was on his return from this expedition that Electryon had been killed. Amphitryon accordingly took the field against the Taphians, accompanied by Creon, who had agreed to assist him on condition that he slew the Teumessian fox which had been sent by Dionysus to ravage the country. |
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