10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «LAMPADEDROMY» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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lampadedromy in der folgenden bibliographischen Auswahl. Bücher, die mit
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
Lampyridae: family of luminous insects. lampyrine. Lampsilis: genus of mussels.
lampadedromy: torch relay race, especially one in honor of Prometheus, who
brought fire for man's use. lampadepliore. lampro-, as lamprophony, lamprotype.
Joseph Twadell Shipley,
2009
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The Poems of Browning: Volume One: 1826-1840
A: at old . . . still: :1 ref. to the Athenian lampadedromy, a relay-race run with
torches, used metaphorically, as here, in Plato, Laws 776b: 'handing on the torch
of life from one generation to another'; and in Lucretius, De Rerum Natura ii 78-9:
...
John Woolford, Daniel Karlin,
2014
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Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
... dromophobia, dromotro- pic, dromotropism, heterodromous, hippodrome,
hippodromic, homodromous, katadro- mous, lampadedromy, loxodromic,
monodro- mia, monodromic, orthodromic, oceanodro- mous, palindrome,
potanadromous, ...
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On the Nature of Things:
See also laws kings, 1.94; 2.38, 50; 3.1025–1033; 4.1013–1014; 5.1108–1111,
1130, 1136–1140, 1222 knowledge, attainable, 4.469–521 lammergeyers,
5.1079 lampadedromy, 2.79 lamps and torches, 2.24–26, 383, 388; 4.450; 5.294
–296; ...
Lucretius, Martin Ferguson Smith,
2001
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Dictionary of Different Words
Dendral? Lampadedromy? Here are more than 15,000 definitions of all the difficult and unusual words the reader is likely to encounter.
Herodotus compares this method to the Athenian lampadedromy, or torch-race, a
relay race in which the contestant who arrived first at the goal with his torch still
burning won the prize for his side. To Americans it will recall the pony-express ...
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Chambers English-Hindi Dictionary
lamp 713 ns. lampad çtw, тЧтпг, «АФГЛ TT ЭТТ; lampadary ччм^^Т, ?rft ЧТ5ГТ;
4Tf , чNoпш; lampadedromy, lampa dcphoria Я5ПЯ ?t?; lampadist чтъ щфр (
Hsrmst? нчтт Фтттнт 5*rfa);lampadoinancy<t4fèl4TMI<?4l4^, ÍWsrj'TfT^TT; ...
Sureśa Avasthī, Indujā Avasthī,
1981
Lampadedromy n.(Gr. Antiq.) A torch-race . . .1848Craig has the incorrect form
Lampadrome . . . – OED It's late, but here's the linkboy's light for hire. He lifts it,
dripping, high above his head, and waits his corner, watching textures fade, night
...
So tonight in celebrating the quarter-century of the life of the Academy whose
members hand on the torch in an intellectual lampadedromy, we are thinking
illogically — or rather not in terms of space at all, but merely in terms of time, ...
American Academy of Arts and Letters,
1930
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The Liberal arts college movement
... Renaissance illumined Europe, planted her cities with universities of learning
and sanctuaries of the spirit and in its Atlantic lampadedromy lighted torches in
scores of early American colleges, whence the light is again carried 48 The
Liberal ...
Archie MacInnes Palmer,
1930