10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNDIGRION»
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pundigrion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous ...
Is there any commentator who can explain the punnet and pundigrion, or must
they be enumerated in the next work vvhicli shall be written De rebus deper- tlitis
? The recovery of this lost species of the small currency of wit would be of signal ...
2
On Reading: Notes on the literary landscape, 1995-2012
... this is contentious, look up the origins of “marmalade”. Even Kate Bush might
hesitate before putting that into a song title. The. new. Chambers. rides. to. the.
rescue. of. pundigrion. 3 September 2011 September is the month when war
breaks.
3
Storied Words: The Writer's Vocabulary and Its Origins
PUN, another general term for plays on words, first appeared in a 1662 reference
byJohn Dryden and probably came from the earlier PUNDIGRION, “pun, quibble.
” A likely source for PUNDIGRION, in turn, is Latin pungere, “to prick, pierce,” ...
4
Omniana or Horae Otiosiores Vol.I
Is there any commentator who can explain the punnet and pundigrion, or must
they be enumerated in the next work which shall be written De rebus deperditis?
The recovery of this lost species of the small currency of wit, would be of signal ...
ls there any commentator who can ex plain the punnet and pundigrion, or must
they be enumerated in the next work which shall be written De rebus deperdz'tis?
The recovery of this lost species of the small currency of wit, would be of signal ...
Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1812
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Omniana, Or Horæ Otiosiores
Is there any commentator who can explain the punnet and pundigrion, or must
they be enumerated in the next work which shall be written De rebus deperditis?
The recovery of this lost species of the small currency of wit, would be of signal ...
Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1812
7
Ommiana, Or Horae Otiosiores
going out of fashion in the days of the ,pundigrion ? - Clenches and quibbles are
now out of date,' is a line of Flecknoe's. Children find, if they endeavour it, Your
learning, chronicle; clinches your wit. Sir PVilliam Davemm t, The quip seems to ...
8
Essays on Liturgiology and Church History ... With an ...
But we mujt remember that the various Saints of the ConJtantinopolitan Fajti are
named, not in the mere formal profe of the wejt, but each in a jtichos of two or
more verj'es; and thej'e ufually contain “ a pun, punnet, or pundigrion, ” to adopt ...
John Mason Neale, Gerard Moultrie, Richard Frederick LITTLEDALE, 1867
9
The Christian Remembrancer
But we must remember that the various Saints of the Constantinopolitan Fasti are
named, not in the mere formal prose of the west, but each in a stichos of two or
more verses ; and these usually contain ' a pun, punnet, or pundigrion,' to adopt ...
William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley, 1860
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Essays on Liturgiology and Church History
But we mujt remember that the various Saints of the Con- Jlantinopolitan Fajli are
named, not in the mere formal proje of the wejl, but each in a Jlichos of two or
more verjes ; and theje u fually contain " a pun, punnet, or pundigrion, " to adopt ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUNDIGRION»
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pundigrion is used in the context of the following news items.
The Dubious History of Pun (Pun Among Other Pungent Words)
The OED records the short-lived synonyms of pun, namely punnet and pundigrion; yet pun cannot be a clipped form of either. Rather punnet is a mildly amusing ... «OUPblog, Feb 10»
