10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUNCTATIVE»
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cunctative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cunctative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Again he meets "cunctative," and he can almost catch the fleeting fragrance of
dictionary mothballs. When he reads "cunctative sound of carriage wheels," he
regrets that he has ridden so long in street cars as to have forgotten the more
subtile ...
2
Chiefly the Orient: an undigested journal
The same tortuous, cunctative, oriental methods are still in favor. American
Embassy, Constantinople, Turkey. Monday, April 17 AFTER a short visit to Cook's
, Fellowes and I went again to the bazaars; stopping on the way to take pictures
of ...
George Peabody Gardner,
1912
3
The Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Again he meets "cunctative," and he can almost catch the fleeting fragrance of
dictionary mothballs. When he reads "cunctative sound of carriage wheels," he
regrets that he has ridden so long in street cars as to have forgotten the more
subtile ...
4
Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity: Essays in honour ...
Moreover, grammatical markers which express the cunctative value do also exist
and are quite common at least in one linguistic area, i.e. in the Bantu languages.
Specialists in Bantu have been perfectly aware of the so called 'not-yet-forms' of ...
Werner Abraham, Leonid Kulikov,
1999
5
Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal ...
With Lord Bacon, ' I confess I have somewhat of the cunctative,' and, with him, I
thought that ' whosoever is not wiser upon advice than upon the sudden, the
same man is no wiser at fifty than he was at thirty.' I confess that no man ever had
...
John Campbell Baron Campbell, Mrs. Hardcastle (Mary Scarlett Campbell),
1880
6
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. ...
For I confess I have somewhat of the cunctative; and I am of opinion, that
whosoever is not wiser upon advice than upon .the sudden, the same man was
no wiser at fifty than he was at thirty. And it was my father's ordinary word, “ You
must give ...
7
The Law Magazine and Review: A Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence
But those would form a most mistaken and exaggerated idea of his dilatoriness—
of the fault which Lord Bacon admitted against himself, “ his being inclined to the
cunctative”—-who should imagine that these isolated cases (the rest admitted of
...
Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael, William Pinder Eversley,
1838
8
Eminent British Statesmen
My opinion as touching a parliament,” he writes to Cooke, “I am still gathering for,
but shall be very cautious and cunctative in a business of so great weight,
naturally distrusting my judgment, and more here, where I am in a sort yet a
stranger, ...
Dionysius Lardner, John Forster,
1836
"What I can ill afford to be is cunctative or careless. Neither can I be slothful. I am
not the type. What I find totally objectionable is that nothing is being done with
these regiments. They are doing nothing in terms of 184 Frank Fernandes.
10
Eighteen thousand words often mispronounced: a carefully ...
a carefully rev., greatly enl., and entirely rewritten ed. of "12,000 words often
mispronounced" William Henry Pinkney Phyfe. Cumaean — ku-me'-an. "The
Cumcean Sibyl." See Cumce. cumin — kum'-in. cumulative — ku'-mu-la-tiv.
cunctative ...
William Henry Pinkney Phyfe,
1914
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUNCTATIVE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cunctative is used in the context of the following news items.
The Decline and Fall of National Security
If so, 4GW is truly cunctative; too late for a flaccid flag corps that already offers "transition" and "stability" as passive strategic objectives. Imagine ... «American Thinker, Oct 13»
Innovative ways to fool people
John Bankhead Magruder was a Confederate general who needed to convince the Federal army - headed by the notoriously cunctative ... «SecurityFocus, May 06»