... is "vision" a monosyllable? You might just as well say that "omnibus" is a monosyllable. At any rate I get no thrill, subtle or other, no surprise, no revelation. 27 September 1934 The Oxford dictionary seems to leave me no choice as regards the number of syllables in the word "vision". I quote below some of the words explained as monosyllables in the same way as "Rhythm" and "Prism", which are... anapaest: When, however, you say that your personal experience in England, both north and south, never recorded a monosyllabic "vision", we are on more solid ground, but the Concise Oxford Dictionary is specially stated to be in its very title as "of Current English": is all its claim to be set at nought? It is after all a responsible compilation and, so far as my impression goes, not unesteemed... allowed to spread their nets with impunity were very enjoyable. But I am afraid the tendency of the English language is towards con traction of vowel sounds, at least terminal ones; and perhaps the Oxford Dictionary has felt the need to monumentalise—clearly and authoritatively—the degree to which this tendency has, in some cases more definitely, in others less but still perceptibly enough, advanced? The ...
... and a wilful shifting of the accent, I would refuse to change it; for the rhythm is an essential part of whatever beauty there is in the line. P.S. - Your view is supported by the small Oxford Dictionary which, I suppose, gives the present usage, Chambers' being an older authority. But Chambers must represent a former usage and I am entitled to revive even a past or archaic form if I choose to... rhyme 'azure' with 'pure' and pass it off as an Abercrombiean acrobacy by way of fun. But not otherwise - the accent mark must go. 14 (13)"0 vizhn! O pasbn! m'd'tashnl" AK: The Oxford Dictionary seems to leave one no choice as regards counting the number of syllables in the word "vision" and its likes. I quote below some of the words explained as monosyllables in the same way as "Rhythm"... difference as regards syllabification between their intention here and in the instances above. P.S. I must admit, however, what struck me after typing the preceding. In the preface to the Oxford Dictionary it is said that it has not been thought necessary to mention certain pronunciations which are familiar to the normal reader, such as that of the suffix "-ation" (ashn). Does this mean that a ...
... movement in cycles, perpetually self-repeating, yet perpetually progressing, which is imaged and set forth for us in the symbols of the Puranas.” 4 What is evolution to the modern mind? The Oxford Dictionary of Biology gives this definition: “The gradual process by which the present diversity of plant and animal life arose from the earliest and most primitive organisms, which is believed to have ...
... × Richard Dawkins: op. cit., p. 192. × The Concise Oxford Dictionary , tenth edition. × Susan Blackmore: op. cit., p. 17. ...
... could have been directly translated by the English one with the same sound and spelling, but, apart from the colloquial meaning, the English word has a bearing worse than "moron"! The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a moron technically as an adult with intelligence equal to that of an average child of 8-12. This is the definition I quoted in my letter. But I read now the same authority's entry on ...
... Denis Noble: The Music of Life – Biology beyond the Genome , pp. 9, 42. × Oxford Dictionary of Biology , p. 656. × Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene , p. 45. ...
... Page 305 To unify their task, excluding life Which cannot bear the nakedness of the Vast, [ p. 273 ] I suppose the intransitive use of "unify" is not illegitimate, though the Oxford dictionary gives only the transitive. Quite possible to use a transitive verb in this way with an unexpressed object, things in general being understood. 31 March 1948 For Truth is wider, greater ...
... Henry (Sir)". In Dictionary of National Biography , vol. 1. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1972. Moulton, Edward C., "Cotton, Sir Henry John Stedman (1845 - 1915)". In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47183. "Provinces of British India", http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India BrProvinces ...
... "Precession of the Equinoxes" and "Solstices" Olmstead, T., History of the Persian Empire (Chicago, 1948) Olsvanger, I., Letter to the author, dated 4.1.1957 Oxford Dictionary, The Concise, 1952 Pai, Govind, In The Journal of Indian History, August 1935 Pargitar, F. E., The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age (Oxford, 1913) ...
... other major—The main stress is on the 2nd syllable. I am not an Englishman like you, Sir, to contradict or question the authority. I am only a Bengali and almost a hill-tribal at that! Oxford Dictionary does not put the accents on the 1st and 3rd syllables as you do—so it does not contradict me. You may say that they have divided the syllables like that, but other words also they accent in ...
... must be a waste of time—but "possibly" yes or "possibly" not. Reading Dickens merely cannot give you the spiritual consciousness—that is obvious. It would be a miracle if it did. Reading the Oxford Dictionary might be more helpful in that direction. Unless of course a miracle took place; then even Dickens—But otherwise it may evidently be a waste of time. D got helped by Lawrence's letters—even J gave ...
... everything else kind of creature. It is not really feminine, but is the woman as man has made her. By the way, if you like to add some hundred other epithets and double-epithets after searching the Oxford dictionary you can freely do so. They can all be fitted in somehow. I am tempted to ask you a delicate personal question about X. She seems to be in a good state of sadhana though I find that she spends ...
... everything else kind of creature. It is not really feminine, but is the woman as man has made her. By the way, if you like to add some hundred other epithets and double epithets after searching the Oxford dictionary you can freely do so. They can all be fitted in somehow. 16 (3) Sri Aurobindo becoming 'grave, rough, stiff and gruff ? NB: One misgiving is pressing heavily on my soul. I sense and ...
... locution could have been directly translated by the English one with the same sound and spelling, but, apart from the colloquial meaning, English word has a bearing worse than ‘moron’! The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a moron technically as an adult with intelligence equal to that of an average child of 8-12. …I read now the same authority’s entry on ‘imbecile’: ‘a person Page 24 of ...
... Plays, Vol. II, p. 368. 81. ibid., p. 373. Page 476 82. ibid., p. 300. 83. The Concise Oxford Dictionary. 84. Savitri, p. 913. 85. Cf: Henry Adams: "Life, Time, Space, Thought, the World, the Universe End where they first begin, in one ...
... effectively in tune with the positive content of the statement carried by the word "Fire" as distinguished from the negative content in the word "Dream". For, "cherish" means, according to the Oxford Dictionary, not only to nurse, foster, cling to, hold dear but also to keep warm — and its very sound suggests the peculiar substance and activity of fire: the rich delicacy that is a scorching softness ...
... to have helped by confusion to produce that other sense of 'classic', as applied to any Greek or Roman writer, whether first-class or not. Thus 'classical', meaning 'standard', dates in the Oxford Dictionary, from 1599 (' Classicall and Canonicall'); meaning 'Greek or Latin', from 1607 ('Classical Authors'). Thence the epithet adapted itself to anything supposed to conform to the standards of classical ...
... effectively in tune with the positive content of the statement carried by the word "Fire" as distinguished from the negative content of the word "Dream". For, "cherish" means, according to the Oxford Dictionary, not only to nurse, foster, cling to, hold dear but also to keep warm—and its very sound suggests the peculiar substance and activity of fire: the rich delicacy that is a scorching softness, the ...
... authentic or not. This composite theory was called: “the modern synthesis,” or “the new synthesis,” or “neo-Darwinism.” Edward Larson calls it “the modern neo-Darwinian synthesis;” and the Oxford Dictionary of Biology declares it to be “the current theory of the process of evolution.” One understands the pride with which the birth of ‘Darwinism’ was saluted. The hollowness of the original Darwinian ...
... old world to create the new, and with the old body to create the new, we have the conversations published under the misleading title Mother’s Agenda . For under the lemma “agenda” the Concise Oxford Dictionary has “a list of items of business to be discussed at a meeting … a list of matters to be addressed.” Even the Nouveau Petit Robert has under the same lemma “ carnet sur lequel on inscrit jour ...
... McKenzie, Dictionary of the Bible (Bangalore: The Asian Trading Corporation, 1984, with permission of Geoffrey Chapman, London), pp. 337, col. 2 and 536, col. 1. 215. 77 k? Concise Oxford Dictionary (Clarendon Press, 1964), p. 1364, col. 2. 216. Ibid. 217. The Jerusalem Bible, The New Testament, p. 88. 218. Ibid., p. 325, col. 2, note e. 219. Ibid., The Old ...
... Yāvāns of Genesis as meaning Ionians or Greeks. 1. Ibid., pp. 174-175. 2. Ibid., p. 169. 3.Letter to the author, dated 4.1.1957. 4. C. 270 B.C. (The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1952, p. 1135). Page 258 "Only at a later stage of the Books of the Bible did the word Yāvān accept the meaning 'Greeks'. Thus in the Book of Joel IV, 6: 'And you ...
... 6). 2 It is seldom realised that the ancient scripture can actually tend Sri Aurobindo to see him as a griffin. Nolini has spoken of a Hawk as a component of the griffin. The Concise Oxford Dictionary (1964, p. 541, col. 2) describes the griffin as "Fabulous creature with eagle's head & wings & lion's body." This would suit Nolini quite well since he brings in "Vishnu's Garuda". Now, hawk ...
... originally published in London by Cassell Ltd., 1978), pp. 42-44. 13. The Plain Man Looks at the Apostles' Creed (Glasgow: Collins, Fount Paperbacks, 1979), p. 77. 14. The Concise Oxford Dictionary (1964), p. 1502, col. 2. 15. The Jerusalem Bible (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1966), The Old Testament, p. 743. 16. Ibid., p. 745. 17. Ibid., p. 756. 18. Ibid ...
... serve. A Christ of one kind or another is indispensable - not necessarily the Christ we know of as Jesus of Nazareth. Such, logically, is the sense of the adjective "some" which the Concise Oxford Dictionary 10 defines as: "Particular but unknown or unspecified (person or thing)." However, Teilhard, according to his lights, has no alterna- 9. Ibid., pp. 649-50. 10 ...
... Science of Consciousness, p. 214. Vide., Bohm, David, Wholeness And The Implicate Order, Routledge, 1980, London, pp. 174 5. Vide., Bowker, John, (ed.). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, Introduction of, Oxford University Press, 2000; Galloway, George, CharlesScribner's Sons, New York, 1920, Chs. 2-5; Cottingham, John, The Spiritual Dimension, Cambridge ...
... Sri Aurobindo - The Smiling Master Chapter 12 Sri Aurobindo's Wit What is wit? The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines it as the "power of giving sudden intellectual pleasure by unexpected combining or contrasting of previously unconnected ideas or expressions." Wit is indeed a form of intellectual quickness, raillery and repartee, which is apt to startle ...
... else kind of creature. It is not really feminine, but as the woman as man has made her. By the way, if you like to add some hundred other epithets and double epithets after searching the Oxford dictionary you can freely do so. They can all be filled in somehow. MYSELF: It looks C has disposed off his mother's ornaments trustingly deposited with him, to pull out a friend from difficulty ...
... built their houses ... The engineering skill of those who built the Agra bridge over the Yamuna river far surpassed a bridge built at 1 An interesting definition from the Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of the adjective "Jesuitical": (2.) Having character ascribed to Jesuits; dissembling, practising equivocation or mental reservation of truth. Page 164 Tours over the Loire ...
... A similar word was used by Blount in 1656 with slight change of form—ineffugible. Etymologically it is an adaptation of the Latin ineffugibilis, from effugere, to flee from, avoid. (Vide, Oxford English Dictionary.)" Ineffugible is the correct formation, but it has not force or power of suggestive sound in it. The a in ineffugable has been brought in by illegitimate analogy from words like "fugacious"... Nothing, Ceasing-to-be. They sublate not themselves mutually, not the one the other externally; but each sublates itself in itself, and is in its own self the contrary of itself.' (Vide, Oxford English Dictionary.)" Hegel could not have used the word "sublate" as he wrote in German. 5 I do not know what word he used which is here translated by sublate, but certainly it does not mean both destroy ...
... doubt possible is whether "ye" can be in the singular just as "you" can. Its equivalence to it in the plural should itself tend to assure us here. And actually, among its uses, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary of 1936 (p. 2465, col. 1) lists one in which it takes the place of "thou" in addressing a single person (originally as a sign of respect or deference). Today it is most frequent in familiar ...
... Mother's own French way with "confondre"). But Nolini, who often consulted me on the fine points of English, was not satisfied on this occasion. He hurried away to consult the monumental Oxford English Dictionary and came back triumphantly with a solitary example of "confuse" in the Mother's manner, meaning "to fail to distinguish". It was a quotation in Volume II, p. 816, from the Pall Mall Gazette... came down to the first floor from her room on the second after one more recitation and exclaimed: "Do you know what pains I take? I spent nearly two hours early this morning consulting an English Dictionary to get the correct pronunciation of several words. Now I hope my reading was good." We had the chance to hear the tape-record. It was really a good reading — though in two or three places there... 1885. So I had to shut up. Later, I found that the first occurrence of the usage which the OED had listed had not gone without the honour of a sequel. Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1966). Vol. I, cities one W.F. Morgan as writing; "I always confuse between him and Orion." Evidently, a wide acquaintance with modern English idiom is not all-sufficing and even a good ...
... father of 1. Ibid., p. 276. 2 Ibid., p. 120. 3. The New Century Classical Handbook, edited by Catherine B. Averery (New York, 1962), p. 405, col. I. 4. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by M. Cary and others (1961), p. 618, Page 87 Deianira... suggests that they were originally wine-gods...'" Surely, Vainya to the Greeks could be Oeneus the wine-god... Bacchic matters, to be the king of the country. When Spatembas died his son Boudyas succeeded to the sovereignty; the father reigning over the Indians fifty-two years, 1. Smaller Classical Dictionary (Everyman, London), p. 110, col. 2. 2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (13th Ed.). Vol. VIII, p. 287, col. 2. 3. The Classical Accounts... , p. 221. 4. Ibid. Page 80 ... valiant Viśvasphāni. Overthrowing 1.Pargiter, op. cit., p. 72. 2. Ibid., p. 74. 3. Ibid., p. 73. 4. Ibid., fn. 11. 5.M. Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, p. 994, col. 6. Op. cit., p. 73. Page 141 all kings he will make other castes kings... Viśvasphāni the magnificent will be mighty, Visnu's peer in battle... After ...
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