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Brewer's: Questa Gentilissima
(Italian). Most gentle one, a love term used by Dante to Beatrice “Common mortals stand and gaze with bated breath while that most gentle one (questa gentilissima) goes on her way” —Mrs.…Brewer's: Swarga
The paradise of Indra, and also of certain deified mortals, who rest there under the shade of the five wonderful trees, drink the nectar of immortality called Amrita, and dance with the…Brewer's: Triangular Part of Man
(The). The body. Spenser says, “The divine part of man is circular, but the mortal part is triangular.” (Faërie Queene, book ii. 9.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Venial Sin
One that may be pardoned; one that does not forfeit grace. In the Catholic Church sins are of two sorts, mortal and venial; in the Protestant Church there is no such distinction; but see…Brewer's: Goose Gibbie
A half-witted lad, who first “kept the turkeys, and was afterwards advanced to the more important office of minding the cows.” (SirWalterScott: Old Mortality.) Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Grassmarket
At one time the place of execution in Edinburgh. “I like nane o' your sermons that end in a psalm at the Grassmarket.” —Sir Walter Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xxxv. Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: Black Death
A putrid typhus, in which the body turned black with rapid putrefaction. It occurred in 1348, and carried off twenty-five millions in Europe alone, while in Asia and Africa the mortality…Brewer's: Columbine
(3 syl.). The sweetheart of Harlequin, and, like him, supposed to be invisible to mortal eyes. Columbina in Italian is a pet-name for a lady-love, and means a little dove, a young coquette…Brewer's: Asa Thor.
Eldest son of Asa Odin, and the first-born of mortals. (Scandinavian mythology.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AsaphAsa Loki A B C D E F G H I J…Brewer's: Parish Registers
Bills of mortality. George Crabbe, author of The Borough, has a poem in three parts, in ten-syllable verse with rhymes, entitled The Parish Register. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Trending
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