10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESIPIENT»
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The First Century of the Republic: A Review of American Progress
Thus in one of his poems he characterizes one of the most delightful of Roman
lyrists as " desipient" Horace. After a diligent exploration of the dictionary, the
reader finds that desipient comes from a Latin word signifying " to be wise," and
that ...
2
The Wit and Humour of Political Science
A. Desipient. Prolegomenon. to. the. Deconstruction. of. Silence: Neo-
postdistanciationalist. Approaches. It. is a curious fact that the social sciences pay
no attention to silence. Or to state the point in different way, the silence ofthe
social ...
Lee Sigelman, Kenneth Newton, Kenneth Meier, 2010
3
American Literature: And Other Papers
After a diligent exploration of the dictionary the reader finds that desipient comes
from a Latin word signifying "to be wise," and that its English meaning is " trifling,
foolish, playful." It might be supposed that in the whole range of English poetry ...
Edwin Percy Whipple, 1887
Thus in one of his poems he characterizes one of the most delightful of Roman
lyrists as "desipient" Horace. After a diligent exploration of the dictionary the
reader finds that desipient comes from a Latin word signifying "to be wise." and
that its ...
Charles Wells Moulton, 1910
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The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American ...
Thus in one Of his poems he characterizes one of the most delightful of Roman
lyrists as “desipient” Horace. After a diligent exploration of the dictionary the
reader finds that desipient comes from a Latin word signifying “to be wise. " and
that its ...
Charles Wells Moulton, 1910
6
The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your ...
... closing the desinent phase of the operation desipient (de-SIP-ee-ent) foolish,
silly, or trifling a self-important columnist with desipient opinions despiciency (des
-PISH-en-see) contempt a cowardly act deserving only despiciency desponsate ...
7
The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words
A two-headed monster. "My God, she's bringing the twins with her! Derodidymus
alert! Warning, warning, derodidymus alert!" DESIPIENT a. <£ Silly, trifling, or
foolish. "How marvelous that you're enrolling your daughters with us, Lady
Fubwell!
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Ending; terminal. Six tritons, . . . their upper parts human, . . . their desinent parts
fish. B. Jonson, Masque of Blackness. desipience (dfjsip'i-ens), n. [= Sp.
desipiencia, < L. deslpientia, foolishness, < desipien(i-)s, foolish: see desipient ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction
S, unc half-grown sprigs of learning gracedhis brow: Little he knew, though much
he wish'd to know ; Enchanted hung o'er Viagii's honey'd lay, And smiled to see
desipient Hoaace play ; Ulean'd scraps of Greek ; and, curious, traced afar, ...
Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1848
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That comes right from the brainiacs at MSNBC. They love the high schoolish techinque of altering words to form desipient little homonyms. «BernardGoldberg.com, Aug 11»
