10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMPHIGORIC»
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amphigoric in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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A Bridge to Advanced Mathematics
confusion space then X is amphigoric. The only way to do this is to argue that any
X which is both recondite and impalpable is either fatuous orsheer drivel (or, of
course, somelogical equivalent of this statement). Moreover, the use of ...
This book centers on the revolutionary French symbolist movement of the last part of the 19th century, translated by Emmett Parker. Peyre gets to the heart of the subject, through provocative lines.
In reading P. D. James Unnatural Causes last summer, I discovered a new word:
amphigoric. Amphigoric speech, like Jabberwocky from Alice, sounds plausible
but really doesn't make sense to the listener. I do hope I've not been too ...
In reading P. D. James Unnatural Causes last summer, I discovered a new word:
amphigoric. Amphigoric speech, like Jabberwocky from Alice, sounds plausible
but really doesn't make sense to the listener. I do hope I've not been too ...
Madison Public Schools (Wis.),
1983
Longley (Abp. Charles Thomas), ancestry, 125. See Lyttelton (Bp. Charles), \
anpnle's letters to him, 2, Longmire (Peggy), the \Yestmoreland centenarian, 125 '
Lyttelton (Lord) on amphigoric lines, 224 Makrocheir on Ball of Canton, 358 ,
Eorls ...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
That is not a formal denial, and you * will see if you read the passage yourselves,
that my answer is ' not only equivocal, but amphigoric.' The scene ends with a
recital of the judgment actually delivered for the debt and costs, and le grand ...
Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier,
1856
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Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
That is not a formal denial, and you will ee if you read the passage yourselves,
that my answer isnotonl y equivocal, but amphigoric.' The scene ends with a
recital of the judgment actually delivered for the debt and costs, and le grand
cousin is ...
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Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double
... have with acts of popular memory and rebellion. The heroines and anti-
heroines of 'popular memory' share the fate of its heroes and anti-heroes; they all
say and do too much for what we want to ask: troublesome in their amphigoric
style, ...
She was logical, too; yet, at times, she was amphigoric. She epitomized
contradiction, he said to himself aloud. I wish she was here right now, he thought.
Then Damien put Myra in her own compartment of his memory and Claire went
back to ...
H. Clayggett VanPelt,
2008
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The American Bibliopolist
AMPHIGORIC. — Greek, amphi, about, goros, round. A term applied to
nonsensical verses, a rigmarole, or, more, literally, a round-about, with seemable
meaning enough to put one on finding it out, though, if findable, not worth the
finding.