10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RATHEREST»
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ratherest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
in speaking of two roads which are of nearly equal length, the term 'rnther of the
ratherest' would be applied to either the longer, or the shorter, indill'erently. When
meat is slightly over, or underdone, it is said to be 'rather of the ratherest.' Shr.!
2
Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases, with ...
H.s. H.P. RATHER OF THE RATHEREST. A very little; implying a slight difference
, so little that it is scarcely perceptible. In speaking of two roads which are of
nearly equal length, the term " rather of the ratherest " would be applied to either
the ...
Anne Elizabeth Baker, 1854
3
Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases
Anne Elizabeth Baker. And rails, and swears, and rates ; that she, poor soul,
Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak. Taming the Shrew, iv. 2. 'T is to
be chid as we rate boys. Ant. and Cleo. i. 4. H.s. H.P. RATHER OF THE
RATHEREST.
Anne Elizabeth Baker, 1854
4
The works of William Shakespeare: The plays edited from the ...
Sc. 2, how out of character it would be for the pedant Holofernes to speak in our
modern clipped way of Dull's exhibition of his “undress'd, unpolish'd, uneducated,
unprun'd, untrain'd, or rather, unletter'd, or ratherest, unconfirm'd fashion,” ...
William Shakespeare, 1871
... the sixth year, a complete buck. *) ratherest ist eine von Holofernes auf eigne
Hand gebildete Superlativform; die alte, zu Sh.'6 Zeit schou veraltete, lautet
rathest. Nath. Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that 44 A. IV. love's labour's
lost.
William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius, 1864
towards the new comer, and "How's Cutty lad?" was the general question. " Only
rather of the ratherest," was the man's answer; "only rather of the ratherest. If I or
his mother could nus him he might once more be much of a muchness, poor boy,
...
7
Salopia Antiqua or an Enquiry from Personal Survey into the ...
Rather o' the Ratherest, phr. Here we differ in our application of this phrase from
the Iceni ; according to Forby they use it with reference to underdone meat ; the
Cornavii infer by it, a very minute degree of propinquity : thus if one road can be ...
Charles Henry Hartshorne, 1841
8
The English Adjective in the Language of Shakspere: Inaug. Diss
To show. . . his incliuatioh after his undressed, unpolished, uneducated,
unpruned, untrained, or rather unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion. (
Here ratherest is perhaps an off-hand objectionable formation of Holofernes; the
correct ...
9
Love's labour's lost: a concordance to the text of the first ...
Minnime honest Maister, or rather Maister no. •replication, or rather ostentare, to
show as it were his inclina- | tion •vntrained, or rather vnlettered, or ratherest
vnconfirmed fa-|shion, •Vnder pardon sir, What are the contentes? or rather as
Hor- ...
William Shakespeare, 1970
10
American Journal of Philology
□w Ratherest is put, by Shakespeare, into the mouth of the pedantic Holofernes.
But the word has been used in all gravity. " For, if you otherwyse behave your
selfe in the reading of it, it shall anon lose the vertue and quicknesse in stirring
and ...
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Tenney Frank, 1881
