10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DICACITY»
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
See genitourinary. dicacity (dī-kas'si-tee) n. oral playfulness; talkativeness. [< L
dicacitas wittiness, sarcasm]. ○ His dicacity increased with age. Cf. logodaedaly,
q.v., paronomasia. See talk. digamous (dig'gə-məss) adj. married a second time.
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
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Foyle's further philavery: a cornucopia of lexical delights
dicacity confusion over the Middle English durran do, which literally means '
daring to do'. It was misunderstood, and interpreted as meaning 'daring deeds'.
The adjective 'der-doing' is construed to be an adjective meaning 'doing daring ...
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Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
Indeed, the very law which punishes libel, by fixing the gravamen of the offence
in its tendency to a breach of the peace, casts its stone rather against the touchy
irritability of the calumniated, than against the dicacity of the offender. When the ...
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The Spiritual Quixote ... To which is Prefixed the Life of ...
And, as every one had something to say to Jerry, so Jerry had something to say
to every one: and this gave a sortof petulant dicacity to his repartees, by no
meaus agreeable to the natural civility of his disposition. : The reader will observe
...
Richard GRAVES (Author of “The Spiritual Quixote.”.), 1808
Seeing this heaven-born minister's renown In his political capacity, Thus tumbling
down, An instance of his smart dicacity Ought in justice to be stated, In order that
the reader may bestow Due praise on the defunct for a borwnot, The only one ...
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The Spiritual Q, 1: A Comic Romance ...
And, as every one had something to say to Jerry, so Jerry had something to say
to every one: and this gave a sort of petulant dicacity to his repartees, by no
means agreeable to the natural civility of his disposition. The Reader will observe
...
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Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Imperial ...
Hadrian disliked the turbulent dicacity of the Alexandrians, and sarcastically
wrote, that all of them—whether Christians, Pagans, or Jews,—were ready to
sacrifice their religion to self-interest; yet be repaired the city and restored their
ancient ...
William Henry Smyth, 1834
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The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: The life ...
The equality among these nobles, their dicacity, if I may use the expression, or
affectation of sharp repartees, their jealousy of each other's popularity, their
peremptoriness in obliging the mightest to submit ' Author of the History of the
World, ...
Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson, 1820
This- dicacity is unrivalled; it is a curious felicity of tongue — dolce parlar e
dolcemente inteso — and does speaker and listener equal good, which is not
everywhere else the case. Lord Carnarvon has truly observed, that although, "
with some ...
William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1845
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A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the ...
Dicacity, de-k£s*se-te, f. 124. Fertness, sauciness. DlCE, dlse, s. The plural of Die
. — See Die. Dice-box, dlse-bftks, t. The box from which the dice are thrown.
DlCER, dUsur, s. 98. A player at dice, a gamester. To Dictate, dlk^t Ate, v. a. 91.
