- Hebrew: ראוי, romanized: rāʾûi, lit. 'seen'
borrowed the
sense "worthy,
seemly" from
Aramaic ḥzî "seen, worthy". New
Testament Gr****
preserves some semiticisms...
- that he
dedicated to Mary Magdalene: I made a
chapel in Bernysdale, That
seemly is to se, It is of Mary Magdaleyne, And
thereto wolde I be.
Davis indicates...
-
singing of
ballads and songs, the
shouts of the people, and all
kinds of
seemly and
unseemly acts
which would come to one's own
sight in a city with its...
-
photographs in a
catalog for
Abercrombie & Fitch.
Questioned as to the
seemliness of a
major intellectual writing ad copy, Žižek told The
Boston Globe,...
- Prize-winning poet
Boris Pasternak.
Saitiev repeated Pasternak's poem, "It is not
seemly to be famous,"
before every match, and
according to Saitiev, the poem defined...
- fourth-century B.C. Laws (6.775): "Drinking to
excess is a
practice that is
nowhere seemly ... nor yet safe. ... It
behooves both
bride and
bridegroom to be sober...
-
other only
after a
peace treaty had been agreed, and
thereafter "it is not
seemly for them to make war upon each other". The two
therefore never met, although...
- to
escape on a
plane piloted by Pappy's twin
brother Pippy. When
Pippy seemly dies over
Niagara Falls,
Jimmy survives the fall and
arrives at the church...
- industriousness.
Temperance or
moderation is
subdivided into good discipline,
seemliness, modesty, and self-control. John
McDowell argues that
virtue is a "perceptual...
- This noun
conveys the
meaning of
doing something great which is ****ing or
seemly to the cir****stance.
Magnificence is a philosophical, aesthetic, and socio-economic...
