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  • Materialistic is an adjective derived from the noun

    Materialist :

    1660s and after, in various philosophical and theological senses, on model of French matu00e9rialiste, from material (n.) + -ist

    Materialistic:

    “pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by materialism” in any sense, 1829, from materialist + ic.

    Is

    there an adjective in English that has a

    suffix of -like when -like is sometimes used with nouns?

    What does the Australian Football League do with the idea that we should not have to leave behind our emotions and attitudes?

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  • Asked on March 10, 2021 in Meaning.

    The construction is similar to good-for-nothing and the meaning is a derogatory. Who is the Governor?

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  • What are interjections?

    What are the good signs of quich? PHOEY! Do you believe in explaining emotions?

    Is

    it possible to be present at a party in M-W?

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  • Asked on March 3, 2021 in American english.

    I think your first impression was right. As GDoS notes, shuck is used, especially in campus, as a euphemism for..suck for the game.

    (US campus) a euph. v. for suck v. the Supreme Court of switz.

    Eble

    • Campus Sl. Nov. Usually speaking to people of N.C. State shuckers!

    What does that mean for people who like to study English?

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  • Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.

    Where is Latin origin (modificare) ” to measure off, restrain,” from modus “measure, manner” and can be found in an obsolete context with Latin origin: Modificate:

    John Pearson, Bishop of Chester

    • The kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of the Lord, and of His Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever, not only to the modificated eternity of his Mediatorship, so long as there shall be need of regal power to subdue the enemies of God’s Elect; but also to the complete eternity of the duration of his Humanity, which for the future is co-eternal to his Divinity.

    (English)

    (Wiki) (Stock) (Wiktionary) (in English)

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  • Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.

    Where is Latin origin (modificare) ” to measure off, restrain,” from modus “measure, manner” and can be found in an obsolete context with Latin origin: Modificate:

    John Pearson, Bishop of Chester

    • The kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of the Lord, and of His Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever, not only to the modificated eternity of his Mediatorship, so long as there shall be need of regal power to subdue the enemies of God’s Elect; but also to the complete eternity of the duration of his Humanity, which for the future is co-eternal to his Divinity.

    (English)

    (Wiki) (Stock) (Wiktionary) (in English)

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  • Asked on March 2, 2021 in Other.

    When one goes to define bone idle, the words are: all through to the bone.

    Bone idle : (old-fashioned, British English, informal)

    very lazy

    • Word Origin: early 19th cent. Idle idling through to bone.

    In A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire and Holderness, Issues 1-2 by C. Clough Robinson, they also suggest a possible origin from born idle :

    Bone-idle, E. and N., adj. I am very lazy. The origins of this word bone is unclear, whether it means idle only to the bones or born idle ; in the E. it would appear to refer to the former, as they have a saying ” He is idle tiv his varray backbeean “, while in the Noth it is often used in the latter sense, i.e. my bones are idle. Constitutionally idle from birth, in the same way as it is said that Cap. 14a is passed without compensation, if no penalty? After reading this wikiHow, I learned that Thomas Cook was a born sailor. Robert Burns was a born poet.

    An early citation about bone-idle is from ” Fair Rosamond, or, The days of King Henry II : an historical romance ” by Thomas Miller, 1839:

    Marry i thou mayest work; — all these bone-idle fellows find thee out. I think of their tithes and their Orchards, and their cattle, and their fish-ponds, and the money they have paid for masses of food, but I should not matter it so much, an’ they needed it ; but

    when I think of their tulips, and their orchards, and their cattle, and their fish-ponds, and the money they have paid out for masses.?

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  • Asked on March 2, 2021 in Word choice.

    The expression eightfold: eight times as

    big or as much: an eightfold increase, Cambridge Dictionary).

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  • Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.

    Its thought implies salty water in the seas: Apparently it refers to ancient Vesuv’s shore. In the Old Testament, it has been

    attested that

    the first “experienced sailor” was in the sea in 1840; the word “old” means veteran.

    Green’s Dictionary of Slang gives usage examples from 1830:

    1830 : N. Ames Mariner’s Sketch 7: The ceremony of shaving on crossing the line was omitted, to the manifest disappointment of the ‘old salts’.

    What if I went out onto the ocean for half a day, and drank 40 minutes of milk?

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  • Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.

    Everything started from Latin, where the term littera (from which letter via Old French lectre ) means both an althabetic letter and a writing, a document.

    • c. (Latin), “graphic symbol, alphabetic sign, written character transmitting information about sound in speech,” from Old French letre “character, letter; missive, note,” in plural, “literature, writing, learning” (10c. , Modern French lettre), from Latin litterata (also litera) “letter of the alphabet,” also “an epistle, writing, document ; literature, great books; science, learning;” a word of uncertain origin.

    (Etymonline)

    (Stone Phone) – (Etymonline)

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