10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOVERCAL»
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Pertaining to a stepmother; suitable to a stepmother; stepmotherly. When almost
the whole tribe of birds do thus by incubation produce their young, it is a
wonderful deviation that some few families only should do it in a more novercal
way.
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The Browning Cyclopaedia (Routledge Revivals): A Guide to ...
®novercal. type ̄: pertaining to a step-mother; cater-cousin, or quater-cousin: a
cousin withinthe first four degrees of kindred; sib: a blood relation (A.-S., sibb,
alliance). 1. 537, Papal Jubilee: this is observed every twenty-fifth year. 11. 892¥
3, ...
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Ancient Rome in So Many Words
NOVERCAL. STEPMOTHER. But if a man who has a child from a previous
marriage takes you into his home, even if you have a heart of gold, you will be the
savage noverca that every comic playwright, every mime-writer, every declaimer
...
Christopher Francese, 2007
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VII. The Ring ...
Johnson notes that verjuice 'is vulgarly pronounced varges . 488 doited: with
impaired faculties (due to age). 490 novercal: stepmotherly, in the derogatory
sense of 'cruel, malicious, hostile'. 493 mumps: ill humour. And help the laugh
against ...
Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin, T. A. J. Burnett, 1998
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A new dictionary of the English language
See September. NOVENARY, ad. -ennial. Novenary,— nine. Novennial, — after
a lapse of nine (years). Fr. Norcnairc ; L. Norenarius, nine, and, of Low. Ages,
Novmnit qui novem annoi habet. NOVERCAL, ad. Of or belonging to a step-
mother.
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The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your ...
... conditions nostomania (nos-to-MAY-ni-a) acute homesickness a urenching
nostomania set off by the letter from home notionalist (NO-shun-al-ist) a theorist
or speculative thinker admired as an observer and notionalist novercal (no-VER-
kal) ...
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The Works of Samuel Parr, ...: With Memoirs of His Life and ...
The necessities of it you can easily command, though you owe even that faculty
to your present misfortunes, to a chance which settled you on a firmer basis than
either novercal rapacity would have designed, or novercal malice left you.
Samuel Parr, John Johnstone, 1828
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Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a ...
The necessities of it you can easily command, though you owe even that faculty
to your present misfortunes, to a chance which settled you on a firmer basis than
either novercal rapacity would have designed, or novercal malice left you.
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The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-bred Words
NOVERCAL °* a. In the manner of a stepmother. "Mother, I think you're perfectly
beastly about this curfew tiling. Just because you can't relate to Luke's innovative
body-piercing. You're just so ... so novercal!" NULLIFIDIAN ^ a. or n. Without ...
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The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to ...
novercal. E Her novercal guardian observed [that the girl appeared to have been
molested]. The kid also seemed unusually downcast and found it extremely
difficult to look her stepmother up in the eye. (Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, “
Pedophile ...
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... (PRIN-koks): a self-confident young fellow (used in Romeo and Juliet). novercal (NO–ver–cal): of, relating to, or characteristic of a stepmother. «The Guardian, Sep 14»
Spartanburg math professor comes in second at National Scrabble …
In the final rounds of play, Gibson and Richards played high point-earning words including "swooner," "novercal," "traplike" and "adjutant.". «Spartanburg Herald Journal, Aug 12»
