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nepenthean. (ni-pen-THEE-en) adjective Nepenthe (from Greek, Νηπενθές—ne
penthos, “not grief, sorrow, mourning”) is a medicine that quells sorrow, a “drug of
forgetfulness.” Nepenthes pharmakon, “a drug that chases away sorrow,” first ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
The accusation stated, "Accordingly, Nepenthean Homes should be considered
an employer under Government Code section 12926, subdivision (c) , " but the
accusation failed to name Nepenthean as a respondent in the caption.
California. Fair Employment and Housing Commission, 1990
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Afro-Greeks: Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean ...
The morning passed in a nepenthean coma under the poison-trees reading and
talking, or gliding off into sleep' (54). The allusion is to Helen slipping a
nepenthean (pain-negating) drug into the wine when she and Menelaus
entertain ...
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William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays
Through the dim ages soft they sleep, Wrapt in calm slumber, long and deep,
While Nepenthean dews their eyelids steep. A wild, strange banquet long ago,
Whose lamps, in midst of festive glow And mirthful sounds, bumt sudden low.
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Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Intellectuals: Synonyms, ...
I'd studied the travel brochures so much thatI had a perfectly EIDETIC vision of
what to expect on the cruise ship. nepenthean (ni-PEN-thee-uhn). Inducing a
pleasurable feeling of forgetfulness, especially that of sorrow or trouble.
Attending the ...
David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, 2011
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Community Services Directory
Services Provided: Individual, family, ex-offender and drug abuse counseling and
referral. Kids Club Saturday noon - 1:30 pm; includes activities and lunch. ♢
Nepenthean Homes, Incorporated 7996 California Avenue, Suite C Fair Oaks,
CA ...
Community Services Planning Council Staff, 2003
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
... not have expected to find an imitator ; But thou, O muse ! whose sweet
nepenthean tongue Can charm the pangs of death with deathless song, Canst
stinging plagues with easy thoughts beguile, Make pains and tortures objects of a
smile.
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The Works. A New Ed. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, ...
... not have'expected to find an imitator; But thou, O Muse ! whose sweet
nepenthean tongue Can charm the pangs of death with deathless fong;
Canststinging plague: with easy thoughts beguile, Make pains and tortures
objects osasmi/c.
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, 1792
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Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the ...
... thy cup's nepenthean deeps. Must I, pale king! so weary of the strife For fame,
for wealth, for fruits that ever cloy, — I, who had sown the affluence of my life, And
built wide barns for harvestings of joy, — Must I, who garner blight, not laughing ...
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Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham
5:29), Noah sought from the fermented fruit of the earth nepenthean relief from
the toil upon the earth that was the punishment God had decreed to Adam for all
mankind (Kass, "Seeing the Nakedness of His Father," 42-43). If this was Noah's
...
