A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different From Their Present
The book A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different From Their Present was written by author Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886 Here you can read free online of A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different From Their Present book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different From Their Present a good or bad book?
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v. c. 10. The first thing she did after rising was to have recourse to the red- pot, out of which she laid it on very thick with a pencil, not only on her cheeks, chin, under the nose, above the eyebrows and edges of the ears, but also on the inside of her hands, her fingers, and shoul- ders. The Lady's Travels in Spain, Letter 8. Penitentiary. It is curious that this word has pos- sessed three entirely independent meanings, penitent, ordainer of penances in the Church, and place for penitents ...; only the last survives. 146 PENITENTIARY PERSETEBANCR. So Manassch in the beginninK and middle of his reign filled the city with innocent blood, and died a penitentiary. Jackson, Christ's Session at the Right Hand of God, b. ii. c. 42. 'Twas a French friar's conceit that conrtiers were of all men the likeliest to forsake the world and turn penitentiaries. Hammond, The Seventh Sermim, Works, vol. iv, p. 517. Penitentiary, a priest that imposes upon an offender what penance he thinks fit. Phillips, The New World of Words.
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