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  • 1 afortunado

    adj.
    1 fortunate, privileged, lucky, successful.
    2 happy, flukey, fluky.
    * * *
    1 lucky, fortunate
    2 (dichoso) happy
    \
    afortunado en el juego, desgraciado en amores lucky at cards, unlucky in love
    * * *
    (f. - afortunada)
    adj.
    fortunate, lucky
    * * *
    ADJ (=con suerte) fortunate, lucky; (=feliz) happy
    * * *
    adjetivo < persona> lucky, fortunate; <encuentro/coincidencia> happy, fortunate
    * * *
    = lucky [luckier -comp., luckiest -sup.], fortunate, privileged.
    Ex. However, graduates from the ' lucky' establishment, will be unable to use their knowledge when they start working in libraries lacking computing technology.
    Ex. But to the person fortunate enough to possess the sacred fire of the art, his work is its own reward, and he blesses the men, living and dead, who kindled the spark within him.
    Ex. Public libraries were often in a privileged position to access such information and present it in a form acceptable to the public.
    ----
    * considerarse afortunado = consider + Reflexivo + lucky, count + Reflexivo + lucky, think + Reflexivo + lucky.
    * darse por afortunado = count + Reflexivo + lucky, think + Reflexivo + lucky, consider + Reflexivo + lucky.
    * poco afortunado = unhappy, ill-favoured [ill-favored, -USA].
    * ser afortunado = be lucky, strike + lucky.
    * tener un escape afortunado = have + a lucky escape.
    * * *
    adjetivo < persona> lucky, fortunate; <encuentro/coincidencia> happy, fortunate
    * * *
    = lucky [luckier -comp., luckiest -sup.], fortunate, privileged.

    Ex: However, graduates from the ' lucky' establishment, will be unable to use their knowledge when they start working in libraries lacking computing technology.

    Ex: But to the person fortunate enough to possess the sacred fire of the art, his work is its own reward, and he blesses the men, living and dead, who kindled the spark within him.
    Ex: Public libraries were often in a privileged position to access such information and present it in a form acceptable to the public.
    * considerarse afortunado = consider + Reflexivo + lucky, count + Reflexivo + lucky, think + Reflexivo + lucky.
    * darse por afortunado = count + Reflexivo + lucky, think + Reflexivo + lucky, consider + Reflexivo + lucky.
    * poco afortunado = unhappy, ill-favoured [ill-favored, -USA].
    * ser afortunado = be lucky, strike + lucky.
    * tener un escape afortunado = have + a lucky escape.

    * * *
    1 ‹persona› lucky, fortunate
    2 ‹encuentro/coincidencia› happy, fortunate
    fue una decisión/elección poco afortunada it was a rather unfortunate decision/choice
    * * *

     

    afortunado adjetivo ‹ persona› lucky, fortunate;
    ‹encuentro/coincidencia› happy, fortunate;

    afortunado,-a adjetivo
    1 (persona con suerte) fortunate, lucky
    2 (acontecimiento grato) happy
    3 (observación apropiada) appropriate
    4 islas Afortunadas, the Canaries

    ' afortunado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    afortunada
    - dichosa
    - dichoso
    - feliz
    - inmensamente
    - venturosa
    - venturoso
    - considerar
    - lechero
    English:
    count
    - fortunate
    - lucky
    - merciful
    - consider
    * * *
    afortunado, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [persona] lucky, fortunate;
    el afortunado candidato que consiga el puesto the candidate fortunate enough to obtain the position;
    el afortunado ganador the lucky winner;
    afortunado en el juego… (desafortunado en amores) lucky in cards, unlucky in love
    2. [coincidencia, frase, decisión] happy;
    una sugerencia poco afortunada an unfortunate suggestion
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] lucky person; [en lotería] lucky winner;
    la afortunada que se llevó el mayor premio the lucky person who won the first prize
    * * *
    adj fortunate, lucky
    * * *
    afortunado, -da adj
    : fortunate, lucky
    * * *
    afortunado adj lucky [comp. luckier; superl. luckiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > afortunado

  • 2 encender la chispa

    (v.) = kindle + spark
    Ex. But to the person fortunate enough to possess the sacred fire of the art, his work is its own reward, and he blesses the men, living and dead, who kindled the spark within him.
    * * *
    (v.) = kindle + spark

    Ex: But to the person fortunate enough to possess the sacred fire of the art, his work is its own reward, and he blesses the men, living and dead, who kindled the spark within him.

    Spanish-English dictionary > encender la chispa

  • 3 fuego sagrado

    m.
    St. Anthony's fire.
    * * *
    (n.) = sacred fire
    Ex. But to the person fortunate enough to possess the sacred fire of the art, his work is its own reward, and he blesses the men, living and dead, who kindled the spark within him.
    * * *

    Ex: But to the person fortunate enough to possess the sacred fire of the art, his work is its own reward, and he blesses the men, living and dead, who kindled the spark within him.

    Spanish-English dictionary > fuego sagrado

  • 4 aetas

    aetas, ātis, f. [contr. from the anteclass. aevitas from aevum, q. v.; Prisc. 595 P.; cf. Welsh oet] ( gen. plur. aetatum;

    but freq. also aetatium,

    Liv. 1, 43; 9, 17; 26, 9; cf. Oud. ad Suet. Aug. 31; Vell. 2, 89; Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2; Gell. 14, 1).
    I.
    The period of life, time of life, life, age (divided, acc. to Varr. ap. Censor. 14, into pueritia, from birth to the 15th year; adulescentia, from that time to the 30th; juventus, to the 45th; the age of the seniores, to the 60th; and, finally, senectus, from that time till death. Others make a different division, v. Flor. 1 prooem.; Isid. Orig. 11, 2; Gell. 10, 28; 15, 20):

    a primo tempore aetatis,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 13:

    prima aetas,

    id. Off. 2, 13:

    ineuntis aetatis inscientia,

    id. ib. 1, 34;

    so 2, 13: flos aetatis,

    the bloom of life, id. Phil. 2, 2; Liv. 21; Suet. Caes. 49; so,

    bona aetas,

    Cic. Sen. 14; and poet. in the plur.:

    ambo florentes aetatibus,

    Verg. E. 7, 4: quamquam aetas senet, satis habeo tamen virium, ut te arā arceam, Pac. ap. Prisc. 1, 10; id. ap. Non. 159, 19:

    mala aetas,

    old age, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 6; and absol.: aetas, aevitas = senectus, old age, SI MORBVS AEVITASVE VITIVM ESCIT, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25: aetate ( through age) non quis obtuerier, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 154; 1, 3, 130; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 5:

    sed ipse morbo atque aetate confectus,

    Sall. J. 9:

    graves aetate,

    Liv. 7, 39.—Sometimes also absol. = adulescentia, youth:

    fui ego illā aetate et feci illa omnia,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 4; id. Most. 5, 2, 27:

    damna, dedecora aetas ipsius pertulit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12:

    tua autem aetas (of his son),

    id. Off. 2, 13:

    (mulier) non formā, non aetate, non opibus maritum invenerit,

    Tac. G. 19:

    expers belli propter aetatem,

    Suet. Aug. 8: aetas consularis, the legal age for the consulship, i. e. the 43d year, Cic. Phil. 5, 17:

    id aetatis jam sumus,

    we have now reached that time of life, id. Fam. 6, 20, 3.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    In gen., the lifetime of man, without reference to its different stages; life, Enn. ap. Gell. 18, 2, 16:

    aetas acta honeste et splendide,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 25:

    gerere,

    id. Fam. 4, 5 al.:

    tempus aetatis,

    id. Sen. 19:

    aetatem consumere in studio aliquo,

    id. Off. 1, 1:

    conterere in litibus,

    id. Leg. 1, 20:

    degere omnem in tranquillitate,

    id. Fin. 2, 35; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 53 al.—In Ov. M. 12, 188, aetas = centum annos.—
    B.
    A space of time, an age, generation, time:

    heroicae aetates,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7:

    haec aetas,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 5; id. Rep. 1, 1:

    alia,

    id. Lael. 27, 101 Beier:

    nostrā aetate,

    in our times, Quint. 1, 4, 20:

    cum primis aetatis suae comparabatur,

    Nep. Iphicr. 1; Vell. 1, 16:

    incuriosa suorum aetas,

    Tac. Agr. 1:

    omnia fert aetas,

    time, Verg. E. 9, 51; so Hor. C. 4, 9, 10:

    crastina aetas,

    the morrow, Stat. Th. 3, 562. — Of the four ages of the world ( the golden age, silver age, etc.), Ov. M. 1, 89 sq.; v. aureus, argenteus, etc.—
    C.
    Abstr. pro concreto, the time or period of life, for the man himself, the age, for the men living in it (mostly poet., and in prose after the Aug. per.; cf.

    saeculum): sibi inimicus magis quam aetati tuae, i. e. tibi,

    Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 1:

    vae aetati tuae,

    id. Capt. 4, 2, 105:

    quid nos dura refugimus Aetas?

    Hor. C. 1, 35, 34:

    impia,

    id. Epod. 16, 9:

    veniens,

    Ov. F. 6, 639:

    omnis aetas currere obviam,

    Liv. 27, 51:

    omnis sexus, omnis aetas,

    Tac. A. 13, 16:

    innoxiam liberorum aetatem miserarentur, i. e. innocentes liberos,

    id. H. 3, 68:

    sexum, aetatem, ordinem omnem,

    Suet. Calig. 4.—
    D.
    Also of things without life, e. g. of wine, its age: bibite Falernum hoc: annorum quadraginta est. Bene, inquit, aetatem fert, it keeps well, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 2, 3; Plin. 23, 1, 20, § 33; 15, 2, 3, § 7.—So of buildings:

    aetates aedificiorum,

    Dig. 30, 58.—
    E.
    Aetatem, a dverb. (ante-class.).
    1.
    = semper, perpetuo, through the whole of life, during lifetime, continually:

    ut aetatem ambo nobis sint obnoxii,

    Plaut. As. 2, 2, 18:

    at tu aegrota, si lubet, per me aetatem quidem,

    id. Curc. 4, 3, 22:

    Quid, malum, me aetatem censes velle id adsimularier,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 38.—
    2.
    = diu, longo tempore, an age, a long time, a long while:

    an abiit jam a milite? Jamdudum aetatem,

    Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 8:

    quod solis vapor aetatem non posse videtur efficere,

    what the heat of the sun cannot perhaps effect for years, Lucr. 6, 236.—
    F.
    In aetate, adverb. (ante-class.).
    1.
    At times, sometimes, now and then, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 2.—
    2.
    At any time, always, ever, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 61.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > aetas

  • 5 aevom

    aevum (archaic aevom), i, n.; but m., Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14; Lucr. 2, 561; 3, 603 [aiôn; cf. aies or aien, aei, aidios; Goth. aivs = time, aiv = ever, aiveins = everlasting; Germ. ewig, Ewigkeit; Eng. aye, ever].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen., uninterrupted, never-ending time, eternity; per aevom, Lucr. 1, 634; 1, 950 al.—Hence of the future:

    in aevum,

    for all time, Hor. C. 4, 14, 3; so Plin. 35, 2, 2, and Vulg. Eccli. 41, 16:

    nos peribimus in aevum,

    ib. Bar. 3, 3.—
    B.
    Esp., in a more restricted sense of a definite time, period, lifetime, life, age: aevom agitare, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 2, 3 (Ann. v. 308 Vahl.): in armis aevom agere, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 49 (Trag. Rel. p. 110 Rib.); so, aevom degere, [p. 65] Lucr. 5, 1439:

    consumere,

    id. 5, 1430: meum si quis te percontabitur aevum, my age or time of life, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 26:

    aevum omne et breve et fragile est,

    Plin. Pan. 78, 2: flos aevi, the bloom of life (cf. aetas, I.), Ov. M. 9, 435:

    integer aevi,

    Verg. A. 9, 255:

    primum aevum,

    Val. Fl. 7, 338.—Also (like aetas, q. v. I.) for old age:

    aevo confectus,

    Verg. A. 11, 85:

    obsitus aevo,

    id. ib. 8, 307:

    annis aevoque soluti,

    Ov. M. 8, 712.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Age or generation, Ov. P. 1, 3, 83:

    ter aevo functus (of Nestor),

    Hor. C. 2, 9, 13:

    ingenia nostri aevi,

    Vell. 2, 36:

    in nostro aevo,

    Plin. 2, 25, 23, § 92:

    nostro aevo,

    id. 2, 13, 10, § 57:

    simulacrum tot aevis incorruptum,

    id. 14, 1, 2, § 9.—Hence,
    B.
    The men living in the same age (cf. aetas, II. C.):

    de quibus consensus aevi judicaverit,

    Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 72.—
    C.
    In a wider sense, time, in gen.:

    vitiata dentibus aevi omnia,

    Ov. M. 15, 235:

    quae per tantum aevi occulta,

    Tac. A. 16, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > aevom

  • 6 aevum

    aevum (archaic aevom), i, n.; but m., Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14; Lucr. 2, 561; 3, 603 [aiôn; cf. aies or aien, aei, aidios; Goth. aivs = time, aiv = ever, aiveins = everlasting; Germ. ewig, Ewigkeit; Eng. aye, ever].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen., uninterrupted, never-ending time, eternity; per aevom, Lucr. 1, 634; 1, 950 al.—Hence of the future:

    in aevum,

    for all time, Hor. C. 4, 14, 3; so Plin. 35, 2, 2, and Vulg. Eccli. 41, 16:

    nos peribimus in aevum,

    ib. Bar. 3, 3.—
    B.
    Esp., in a more restricted sense of a definite time, period, lifetime, life, age: aevom agitare, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 2, 3 (Ann. v. 308 Vahl.): in armis aevom agere, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 49 (Trag. Rel. p. 110 Rib.); so, aevom degere, [p. 65] Lucr. 5, 1439:

    consumere,

    id. 5, 1430: meum si quis te percontabitur aevum, my age or time of life, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 26:

    aevum omne et breve et fragile est,

    Plin. Pan. 78, 2: flos aevi, the bloom of life (cf. aetas, I.), Ov. M. 9, 435:

    integer aevi,

    Verg. A. 9, 255:

    primum aevum,

    Val. Fl. 7, 338.—Also (like aetas, q. v. I.) for old age:

    aevo confectus,

    Verg. A. 11, 85:

    obsitus aevo,

    id. ib. 8, 307:

    annis aevoque soluti,

    Ov. M. 8, 712.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Age or generation, Ov. P. 1, 3, 83:

    ter aevo functus (of Nestor),

    Hor. C. 2, 9, 13:

    ingenia nostri aevi,

    Vell. 2, 36:

    in nostro aevo,

    Plin. 2, 25, 23, § 92:

    nostro aevo,

    id. 2, 13, 10, § 57:

    simulacrum tot aevis incorruptum,

    id. 14, 1, 2, § 9.—Hence,
    B.
    The men living in the same age (cf. aetas, II. C.):

    de quibus consensus aevi judicaverit,

    Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 72.—
    C.
    In a wider sense, time, in gen.:

    vitiata dentibus aevi omnia,

    Ov. M. 15, 235:

    quae per tantum aevi occulta,

    Tac. A. 16, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > aevum

  • 7 पूर्व _pūrva

    पूर्व a. (Declined like a pronoun when it implies relative position in time or space, but optionally so in nom. pl.; and abl. and loc. sing.)
    1 Being in front of, first, foremost.
    -2 Eastern, easterly, to the east of; ग्रामात् पर्वतः पूर्वः Sk.; पूर्वापरौ तोयनिधी वगाह्य Ku.1.1.
    -3 Previous to, earlier than; ब्राह्मणे साहसः पूर्वः Ms.8.276.
    -4 Old, ancient; पूर्वसूरिभिः R.1.4; इदं कविभ्यः पूर्वेभ्यो नमोवाकं प्रशास्महे U.1.1.
    -5 Former, previous, anterior, prior, antecedent (opp. उत्तर); in this sense often at the end of comp. and translated by 'formerly.' or 'before'; श्रुतपूर्व &c.; व्यतीता या निशा पूर्वा पौराणां हर्षवर्धिनी Rām.7.37.1.
    -6 Aforesaid, before-mentioned.
    -7 Initial.
    -8 Established, customary, of long standing
    -9 Early, prime, पूर्वे वयसि Pt.1.165 'in early age or prime of life.
    -1 Elder (ज्येष्ठ); रामः पूर्वो हि नो भ्राता भविष्यति महीपतिः Rām.2.79.8.
    -11 (At the end of comp.) Preceded by, accompanied by, attended with; संबन्धमा भाषणपूर्वमाहुः R.2.58; पुण्यः शब्दो मुनिरिति मुहुः केवलं राजपूर्वः Ś2.17; तान् स्मितपूर्वमाह Ku.7.47; बहुमानपूर्वया 5.31; दशपूर्वरथं यमाख्यया दशकण्ठारिगुरुं विदुर्बुधाः R.8.29; so मतिपूर्वम् Ms.11.147 'intentionally', 'knowingly'; 12.89; अबोधपूर्वम् 'unconsciously', Ś.5.2. &c.
    -र्वः An ancestor, a forefather; पूर्वैः किलायं परिवर्धितो नः R.13.3; पयः पूर्वैः सनिश्वासैः कवोष्णमुपभुज्यते 1.67;5.14; अनुकारिणि पूर्वेषां युक्तरूपमिदं त्वयि Ś.2.17.
    -र्वम् The fore- part; अनवरतधनुर्ज्यास्फालनक्रूरपूर्वम् (गात्रम्) Ś.2.4.
    -र्वा 1 The east
    -2 N. of a country to the east of Madhya- deśa.
    -र्वम् ind.
    1 Before (with abl.); मासात् पूर्वम्.
    -2 Formerly, previously, at first, antecedently, before- hand; तं पूर्वमभिवादयेत् Ms.2.117;3.94;8.25;; R. 12.35; प्रणिपातपूर्वम् K; भूतपूर्वखरालयम् U.2.17 'which formerly was the abode', &c.; समयपूर्वम् Ś.5. 'after a formal agreement.'
    -3 Immemorially. (पूर्वेण 'in front', 'before', 'to the east of', with gen. or acc.; अद्य पूर्वम् 'till-now', 'hitherto';
    पूर्वः -ततः -पश्चात् -उपरि 'first- then, first-afterwards', 'previously, subsequently',
    पूर्वम् -अधुना or
    -अद्य 'formerly-now.'
    -Comp. -अग्निः the sacred fire kept in the house (आवसथ्य).
    -अङ्गः the first day in the civil month.
    -अचलः, -अद्रिः the eastern mountain behind which the sun and moon are supposed to rise.
    -अधिकारिन् m. the first occu- pant, a prior owner.
    -अन्तः the end of a preceding word.
    1 eastern and western; कतमो$यं पूर्वापर- समुद्रावगाढः सानुमानालोक्यते Ś.7; पूर्वापरौ तोयनिधी वगाह्य Ku. 1.1.
    -2 first and last.
    -3 prior and subsequent, pre- ceding and following.
    -4 connected with another.
    (-रम्) 1 what is before and behind.
    -2 connection; न च पूर्वापरं विद्यात् Ms.8.56.
    -3 the proof and the thing to be proved. ˚विरोधः inconsistency, incongruity.
    -अभि- मुख a. turned towards or facing the east.
    -अभ्यासः former practice or experience.
    -अम्बुधिः the eastern ocean.
    -अर्जित a. attained by former works. (
    -तम्) ancestral property.
    -अर्धः, -र्धम् 1 the first half; दिनस्य पूर्वार्धपरार्धभिन्ना छायेव मैत्री खलसज्जनानाम् Bh.2.6; समाप्तं पूर्वार्धम् &c.
    -2 the upper part (of the body); शकुन्तला पूर्वार्धेन शयनादुत्थाय Ś.3; R.16.6.
    -3 the first half of a hemistich.
    -अवसायिन् a. what occurs first or earlier; पूर्वावसायिनश्च बलीयांसो जघन्यावसायिभ्यः ŚB. on MS.12.2.34.
    -अह्णः the earlier part of the day, forenoon; Ms.4. 96,152. श्वः कार्यमद्य कुर्वीत पूर्वाह्णे चापराह्णिकम् (पूर्वाह्णतन, पूर्वा- ह्णिकः, पूर्वाह्णेतन a. relating to the forenoon).
    -आवेदकः a plaintiff.
    -आषाढा N. of the 2th lunar mansion con- sisting of two stars.
    - इतर a. western.
    -उक्त, -उदित a. beforementioned, aforesaid,
    -उत्तर a. north-eastern. (
    -रा) the north-east. (
    -रे dual) the preceding and following, antecedent and subsequent.
    -कर्मन् n.
    1 a former act or work.
    -2 the first thing to be done, a prior work.
    -3 actions done in a former life.
    -4 preparations, preliminary arrangements.
    -कल्पः former times.
    -कायः 1 the fore-part of the body of animals; पश्चार्धेन प्रविष्टः शरपतनभयाद् भूयसा पूर्वकायम् Ś.1.7.
    -2 the upper part of the body of men; स्पृशन् करेणानतपूर्वकायम् R.5.32; पर्यङ्कबन्धस्थिरपूर्वकायम् Ku.3.45.
    -काल a. belonging to ancient times. (
    -लः) former or ancient times.
    -कालिक, -कालीन a. ancient.
    -काष्ठा the east, eastern quarter.
    -कृत a. previously done. (
    -तम्) an act done in a former life.
    -कोटिः f. the starting point of a debate, the first statement or पूर्वपक्ष q. v.
    -क्रिया preparation.
    -गा N. of the river Godāvarī.
    -गङ्गा N. of the river Narmadā; रेवेन्दुजा पूर्वगङ्गा नर्मदा मेकलीद्रिजा Abh. Chin.183.
    -चोदित a.
    1 aforesaid, above-men- tioned.
    -2 previously stated or advanced (as an objec- tion.
    -ज a.
    1 born or produced before or formerly, first-produced, first-born; यमयोः पूर्वजः पार्थः Mb.3.141. 11.
    -2 ancient, old.
    -3 eastern.
    (-जः) 1 an elder brother; अपहाय महीशमार्चिचत् सदसि त्वां ननु भामपूर्वजः; Śi. 16.44; R.15.36.
    -2 the son of the elder wife.
    -3 an ancestor, a forefather; स पूर्वजानां कपिलेन रोषात् R.16.34.
    -4 (pl.) the progenitors of mankind.
    -5 the manes living in the world of the moon. (
    -जा) an elder sister.
    -जन्मन् n. a former birth. (-m.) an elder brother; स लक्ष्मणं लक्ष्मणपूर्वजन्मा (विलोक्य) R.14.44.;15.95.
    -जातिः f. a former birth.
    -ज्ञानम् knowledge of a former life.
    -तापनीयम् N. of the first half of नृसिंहतापनीयोपनिषद्.
    -दक्षिण a. south-eastern. (
    -णा) the south-east.
    -दिक्पतिः Indra, the regent of the east.
    -दिनम् the forenoon.
    -दिश् f. the east.
    -दिश्य a. situated towards the east, eastern.
    -दिष्टम् the award of destiny.
    -दृष्ट a.
    1 primæval.
    -2 declared by the ancients; यथा ब्राह्मण- चाण्डालः पूर्वदृष्टस्तथैव सः Ms.9.87.
    -देवः 1 an ancient deity.
    -2 a demon or Asura; भूमिदेवनरदेवसंगमे पूर्वदेवरिपुरर्हणां हरिः Śi.14.58.
    -3 a progenitor (पितृ).
    -4 (du.) an epithet of Nara-Nārāyaṇa; सव्यसाचिन् महाबाहो पूर्वदेव सनातन Mb.3. 41.35. (com. पूर्वदेव नरनारायणसख).
    -देवता a progenitor (पितृ) of gods or of men; अक्रोधनाः शौचपराः सततं ब्रह्म- चारिणः । न्यस्तशस्त्रा महाभागाः पितरः पूर्वदेवताः ॥ Ms.3.192.
    -देशः the eastern country, or the eastern part of India.
    -द्वार a. favourable in the eastern region.
    -निपातः the irregular priority of a word in a compound; cf. परनिपात.
    -निमित्त an omen.
    -निविष्ट a. made formerly, in past; यस्तु पूर्वनिविष्टस्य तडागस्योदकं हरेत् Ms.9.281.
    -पक्षः 1 the fore-part or side.
    -2 the first half of a lunar month; सर्वं पूर्वपक्षापरपक्षाभ्यामभिपन्नम् Bṛi. Up.3.1.5.
    -3 the first part of an argument, the prima facie argument or view of a question; विषयो विशयश्चैव पूर्वपक्षस्तथोत्तरम्.
    -4 the first objection to an argument.
    -5 the statement of the plaintiff.
    -6 a suit at law.
    -7 an assertion, a proposi- tion. ˚पादः the plaint, the first stage of a legal proceeding.
    -पदम् the first member of a compound or sentence.
    -पर्वतः the eastern mountain behind which the sun is supposed to rise.
    -पश्चात्, -पश्चिम ind. from the east to the west.
    -पाञ्चालक a. belonging to the eastern Pañch- ālas.
    -पाणिनीयाः m. (pl.) the disciples of Pāṇini living in the east.
    -पालिन् m. an epithet of Indra.
    -पितामहः a forefather, an ancestor; अब्रवीद् हि स मां क्रुद्धस्तव पूर्वपितामहः । मूत्रश्लेष्माशनः पाप निरयं प्रतिपत्स्यसे ॥ Mb.12.3.21.
    -पीठिका introduction.
    -पुरुषः 1 an epithet of Brahmā.
    -2 anyone of the first three ancestors, beginning with the father (पितृ, पितामह, and प्रपितामह); Pt.1.89.
    -3 an ancestor in general.
    -पूर्व a. each preceding one. (
    -र्वाः) m. (pl.) forefathers.
    -प्रोष्ठपदा = पूर्वभाद्रपदा; Mb.13.89.13.
    -फल्गुनी the eleventh lunar mansion containing two stars. ˚भवः an epithet of the planet Jupiter.
    -बन्धुः first or best friend; Mk.
    -भवः a former life.
    -भागः 1 the forepart.
    -2 the upper part.
    -भा(भ)द्रपदा the twentyfifth lunar mansion containing two stars.
    -भावः 1 priority.
    -2 prior or antecedent existence; येन सहैव यस्य यं प्रति पूर्वभावो$वगम्यते Tarka K.
    -3 (Rhet.) disclosing an intention.
    -भाषिन् a. willing to speak first; hence polite, courteous.
    -भुक्तिः f. prior occupation or possession; Ms.8.252.
    -भूत a. preceding, previous.
    -मध्याह्नः the forenoon.
    -मारिन् a. dying before; एवंवृत्तां सवर्णां स्त्रीं द्विजातिः पूर्वमारिणीम् (दाहयेत्) Ms.5.167.
    -मीमांसा 'the prior or first Mīmāṁsā', an inquiry into the first or ritual portion of the Veda, as opposed to the उत्तरमीमांसा or वेदान्त; see मीमांसा.
    -मुख a. having the face turned towards the east.
    -याम्य a. south-eastern.
    -रङ्गः the commencement or prelude of a drama, the prologue; यन्नाठ्यवस्तुनः पूर्वं रङ्गविघ्नोपशान्तये । कुशीलवाः प्रकुर्वन्ति पूर्वरङ्गः स उच्यते ॥ D. R; पूर्वरङ्गं विधायैव सूत्रधारो निवर्तते S. D.283; पूर्वरङ्गः प्रसंगाय नाटकीयस्य वस्तुनः Śi.2.8. (see Malli. there- on).
    -रागः the dawning or incipient love, love between two persons which springs (from some previous cause) before their meeting; श्रवणाद् दर्शनाद् वापि मिथः संरूढरागयोः । दशाविशेषोयो$प्राप्तौ पूर्वरागः स उच्यते ॥ S. D.214.
    -रात्रः the first part of the night (from dusk to midnight).
    -रूपम् 1 indication of an approaching change; an omen.
    -2 a symptom of occuring disease.
    -3 the first of two con- current vowels or consonants that is retained.
    -4 (in Rhet.) a figure of speech which consists in describing anything as suddenly resuming its former state.
    -लक्षणम् a symptom of coming sickness.
    -वयस् a. young. (-n.) youth.
    -वर्तिन् a. existing before, prior, previous.
    -वाक्यम् (in dram.) an allusion to former utterance.
    -वादः the first plea or commencement of an action at law; पूर्ववादं परित्यज्य यो$न्यमालम्बते पुनः । पदसंक्रमणाद् ज्ञेयो हीनवादी स वै नरः ॥ Mitā.
    -वादिन् m. the complainant or plaintiff.
    -विद् a. knowing the events of the past; historian; पृथोरपीमां पृथिवीं भार्यां पूर्वविदो विदुः Ms.9.44.
    -विप्रतिषेधः the conflict of two statements contrary to each other.
    -विहित a. deposited before.
    -वृत्तम् 1 a former event; पूर्ववृत्तकथितैः पुराविदः सानुजः पितृ- सखस्य राघवः (अह्यमानः) R.11.1.
    -2 previous conduct.
    -वैरिन् a. one who first commences hostilities, an ag- gressor.
    -शारद a. relating to the first half of autumn.
    -शैलः see पूर्वपर्वत.
    -सक्थम् the upper part of the thigh. P. V.4.98.
    -संचित a. gathered before (as in former birth); त्यजेदाश्वयुजे मासि मुन्यन्नं पूर्वसंचितम् Ms.6.15.
    -सन्ध्या daybreak, dawn; रजनिमचिरजाता पूर्वसंध्या सुतैव (अनुपतति) Si.11.4.
    -सर a. going in front.
    -सागरः the eastern ocean; स सेनां महतीं कर्षन् पूर्वसागरगामिनीम् R.4.32.
    -साहसः the first of the three fines; स दाप्यः पूर्वसाहसम् Ms.9.281.
    -स्थितिः f. former or first state.

    Sanskrit-English dictionary > पूर्व _pūrva

  • 8 ἄγριος

    ἄγριος, α, ον, Od.9.119; also ος, ον (not in Trag. or com). Il.19.88, Phoc.3.6, Pl.Lg. 824a, Theoc.22.36: [comp] Comp.
    A

    - ώτερος Th.6.60

    : [comp] Sup.

    - ώτατος Pl.R. 564a

     ([etym.] ἀγρός): living in the fields, wild, savage.
    I of animals, opp. τιθασός ἥμερος, wild,

    βάλλειν ἄγρια πάντα Il.5.52

    ; αἶξ, σῦς, 3.24, 9.539; even of flies,

    ἄ. φῦλα, μυίας 19.30

    ; ἵπποι, ὄνοι, etc., Hdt.7.86, etc.; ἄ. τέρας, of a bull, E.Hipp. 1214;

    ἄ. θηρία X.An. 1.2.7

    ; of men, living in a wild state, Hdt.4.191.
    2 of trees, opp. ἥμερος, wild, Pi.Fr.46, Hdt.4.21, etc.; μητρὸς ἀγρίας ἄπο ποτόν of the wild vine, A.Pers. 614, cf. Arist.Pr. 896a8;

    ἄ. ἔλαιον S.Tr. 1197

    ;

    ὕλη Id.OT 476

    , etc.;

    μέλι Ev.Matt.3.4

    .
    3 of countries, wild, uncultivated, Pl.Phd. 113b, Lg. 905b.
    II mostly of men, beasts, etc.:
    1 in moral sense, savage, fierce, Il.8.96, Od.1.199, etc., cf. Ar.Nu. 567;

    δεσπότης Pl.R. 329c

    ;

    ἄ. καὶ ἀπαίδευτος Id.Grg. 510b

    ;

    ἄγριε παῖ καὶ στυγνέ Theoc.23.19

    , cf. 2.54; ἄ. κυβευτής a passionate gambler, Men.965; esp. of παιδερασταί, Ar.Nu. 349 (cf. Sch. ad loc.), Aeschin.1.52, Aen. Gaz.Thphr. p.14 B.
    2 of temper, wild, fierce, θυμός, χόλος, Il.9.629, 4.23;

    λέων δ' ὥς, ἄγρια οἶδεν 24.41

    ; ἄ. πτόλεμος, μῶλος, 17.737, 398;

    ἄγριος ἄτη 19.88

    ; ἄ. ὁδοί cruel ways or counsels, S.Ant. 1274;

    ὀργή OT 344

     ([comp] Sup.);

    ἀγριώτατα ἤθεα Hdt.4.106

    ;

    ἔρωτες Pl.Phd. 81a

    ;

    φιλία Id.Lg. 837b

    , cf. R. 572b, etc.; τὸ ἄ. savageness, Id.Cra. 394e; ἐς τὸ -ώτερον to harsher measures, Th. l.c.
    3 of things, circumstances, etc., cruel, harsh,

    δεσμά A.Pr. 177

    ; νὺξ -ωτέρη wild, stormy, Hdt.8.13;

    δουλεία Pl.R. 564a

    ; σύντασις ἀ. a violent strain, Id.Phlb. 46d; ἄ. βάρος, of strong, hot wine, Ar.Fr. 351.
    b ἀ. νόσος, prob., malignant, S.Ph. 173, 265;

    ἄ. ἕλκος Bion 1.16

    .
    III Adv. - ίως, savagely, A.Eu. 972, Ar.V. 705; ἄγρια δερκομένω, παίσδων, Hes.Sc. 236, Mosch.1.11. [[pron. full] ᾱ Hom.; [pron. full] ᾱ in trim., [pron. full] ᾰ in lyr. A. and S.; ᾱ?ἄγριοςX E.; [pron. full] ῑ metri grat., where the ult. is long, Il.22.313 (nisi leg. ἀγρίοο).]

    Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > ἄγριος

  • 9 GOÐI

    m. heathen priest; chief (in Iceland during the republic).
    * * *
    a, m. [Ulf, renders ἱερεύς by gudja (ufar-gudja, ahumista-gudja, etc.), ἱερατεία by gudjinassus, ἱερατεύειν by gudjinôn; an Icel. gyði, gen. gyðja, would answer better to the Goth. form, but it never occurs, except that the fem. gyðja = goddess and priestess points not to goði, but to a masc. with a suppressed final i, gyði; a word coting occurs in O. H. G. glossaries, prob. meaning the same; and the form guþi twice occurs on Danish-Runic stones in Nura-guþi and Saulva-guþi, explained as goði by P. G. Thorsen, Danske Runem.; (Rafn’s explanation and reading of Nura-guþi qs. norðr á Gauði, is scarcely right): with this exception this word is nowhere recorded till it appears in Icel., where it got a wide historical bearing]:—prop. a priest, sacerdos, and hence a liege-lord or chief of the Icel. Commonwealth.
    A. HISTORICAL REMARKS.—The Norse chiefs who settled in Icel., finding the country uninhabited, solemnly took possession of the land (land-nám, q. v.); and in order to found a community they built a temple, and called themselves by the name of goði or hof-goði, ‘temple-priest;’ and thus the temple became the nucleus of the new community, which was called goðorð, n.:—hence hof-goði, temple-priest, and höfðingi, chief, became synonymous, vide Eb. passim. Many independent goðar and goðorð sprang up all through the country, until about the year 930 the alþingi (q. v.) was erected, where all the petty sovereign chiefs (goðar) entered into a kind of league, and laid the foundation of a general government for the whole island. In 964 A. D. the constitution was finally settled, the number of goðorð being fixed at three in each þing ( shire), and three þing in each of the three other quarters, (but four in the north); thus the number of goðar came to be nominally thirty-nine, really thirty-six, as the four in the north were only reckoned as three, vide Íb. ch. 5. On the introduction of Christianity the goðar lost their priestly character, but kept the name; and the new bishops obtained seats in the Lögrétta (vide biskup). About the year 1004 there were created new goðar (and goðorð), who had to elect judges to the Fifth Court, but they had no seats in the Lögrétta, and since that time the law distinguishes between forn ( old) and ný ( new) goðorð;—in Glúm. ch. 1 the word forn is an anachronism. It is curious that, especially in the 12th century, the goðar used to take the lesser Orders from political reasons, in order to resist the Romish clergy, who claimed the right of forbidding laymen to be lords of churches or to deal with church matters; thus the great chief Jón Loptsson was a sub-deacon; at last, about 1185, the archbishop of Norway forbade the bishops of Icel. to ordain any holder of a goðorð, unless they first gave up the goðorð, fyrir því bjóðum vér biskupum at vígja eigi þá menn er goðorð hafa, D. I. i. 291. In the middle of the 13th century the king of Norway induced the goðar to hand their power over to him, and thus the union with Norway was finally brought about in the year 1262; since that time, by the introduction of new codes (1272 and 1281), the name and dignity of goðar and goðorð disappeared altogether, so that the name begins and ends with the Commonwealth.
    B. DUTIES.—In the alþingi the goðar were invested with the Lögrettu-skipan (q. v.), that is to say, they composed the Lögrétta (the Legislative consisting of forty-eight members—on the irregularity of the number vide Íb. ch. 5), and were the lawgivers of the country; secondly, they had the dómnefna (q. v.), or right of naming the men who were to sit in the courts, vide dómr:—as to their duties in the quarter-parliaments (vár-þing) vide Grág. Þ. Þ. and the Sagas. The authority of the goðar over their liegemen at home was in olden times somewhat patriarchal, vide e. g. the curious passage in Hænsaþ. S. ch. 2; though no section of law relating to this interesting part of the old history is on record, we can glean much information from the Sagas. It is to be borne in mind that the goðar of the Saga time (10th century) and those of the Grágás and Sturlunga time (12th and 13th centuries) were very different; the former were a kind of sovereign chiefs, who of free will entered into a league; the latter had become officials, who for neglecting their duties in parliament might be fined, and even forfeit the goðorð to their liegemen, vide Grág. Þ. Þ. Neither þing (q. v.) nor goðorð was ever strictly geographical (such is the opinion of Konrad Maurer), but changed from time to time; the very word goðorð is defined as ‘power’ (veldi), and was not subject to the payment of tithe, K. Þ. K. 142. The goðorð could be parcelled out by inheritance or by sale; or they might, as was the case in the latter years of the Commonwealth, accumulate in one hand, vide esp. Sturl. passim, and Grág. The liegemen (þingmenn) were fully free to change their lords (ganga í lög með goða, ganga ór lögum); every franklin (þingmaðr) had in parliament to declare his þingfesti, i. e. to name his liegeship, and say to what goði and þing he belonged, and the goði had to acknowledge him; so that a powerful or skilful chief might have liegemen scattered all over the country. But the nomination to the courts and the right of sitting in the legislative body were always bound to the old names, as fixed by the settlement of the year 964; and any one who sought the name or influence of a goði had first (by purchase, inheritance, or otherwise) to become possessor of a share of one of the old traditionary goðorð; see the interesting chapter in Nj. The three goðar in one þing ( shire) were called sam-goða, joint-goðar; for the sense of allsherjar-goði vide p. 17.
    C. NAMES.—Sometimes a chief’s name referred to the god whom he especially worshipped, as Freys-Goði, Hrafn., Gísl., whence Freys-gyðlingar, q. v.; (the ör-goði is dubious); more frequently the name referred to the liegemen or county, e. g. Ljósvetninga-Goði, Tungu-Goði, etc.; but in the Saga time, goði was often added to the name almost as a cognomen, and with some, as Snorri, it became a part of their name (as Cato Censor in Latin); hann varðveitti þá hof, var hann þá kallaðr Snorri Goði, Eb. 42; seg, at sá sendi, er meiri vin var húsfreyjunnar at Fróðá en Goðans at Helgafelli, 332. Names on record in the Sagas:—men living from A. D. 874 to 964, Hallsteinn Goði, Landn., Eb.; Sturla Goði, Landn. 65; Jörundr Goði and Hróarr Tungu-Goði, id.; Ljótólfr Goði, Sd.; Hrafnkell Freys-Goði, Hrafn.; Oddr Tungu-Goði, Landn.; Þormóðr Karnár-Goði, Vd.; Áskell Goði, Rd.; Úlfr Ör-goði, Landn.; Grímkell Goði, Harð. S.; Þorgrímr Freys-goði, Gísl. 100, 110:—964 to 1030, Arnkell Goði, Landn., Eb.; Þorgrímr Goði, Eb.; Geirr Goði, Landn., Nj.; Runólfr Goði, id.; Þóroddr Goði, Kristni S.; Þormóðr Allsherjar-Goði, Landn.; Þorgeirr Goði, or Ljósvetninga-Goði, Nj., Landn.; (Þorkell Krafla) Vatnsdæla-Goði, Vd.; Helgi Hofgarða-Goði, Landn., Eb.; Snorri Hlíðarmanna-Goði, Lv.; Þórarinn Langdæla-Goði, Heiðarv. S.; and last, not least, Snorri Goði:—in the following period goði appears, though very rarely, as an appellative, e. g. Þormóðr Skeiðar-Goði (about 1100):—of the new goðar of 1004, Höskuldr Hvítaness-Goði, Nj.:—used ironically, Ingjaldr Sauðeyja-Goði, Ld.
    2. goðorð mentioned by name,—in the south, Allsherjar-goðorð, Landn. (App.) 336; Dalverja-goðorð, Sturl. ii. 48; Lundarmanna-goðorð, i. 223; Reykhyltinga-goðorð, 104, iii. 166, 169; Bryndæla-goðorð, Kjaln. S. 402: in the north, Ljósvetninga-goðorð, Lv. ch. 30; Möðruvellinga-goðorð, Bs. i. 488; Vatnsdæla-goðorð, Fs. 68; Fljótamanna-goðorð, Sturl. i. 138: in the west, Snorrunga-goðorð, 55; Jöklamanna-goðorð, iii. 166; Rauðmelinga-goðorð, Eb. 288; Reyknesinga-goðorð, Sturl. i. 9, 19; Þórsnesinga-goðorð, 198: the new godords of the Fifth Court, Laufæsinga-goðorð, Nj. 151; Melamanna-goðorð, id., Band., Sturl. i. 227. Passages in the Sagas and Laws referring to goðar and goðorð are very numerous, e. g. Íb. ch. 5, Nj. ch. 98, Grág., Lögréttu-þáttr, and Þ. Þ. passim, esp. ch. 1–5, 17, 35, 37, 39, 44, 58, 60, 61, Lv. ch. 4 (interesting), Vd. ch. 27, 41 (in fine), and 42, Vápn., Hrafn. ch. 2, Eb. ch. 10, 56, Sturl. iii. 98, 104, passim; for the accumulation of godords, see i. 227 (3, 22), Bs. i. 54; for the handing over the godords to the king of Norway, D. I. i; and esp. article 3 of the Sáttmáli, D. I. i. 631, 632. The godords were tithe-free, ef maðr á goðorð, ok þarf eigi þat til tíundar at telja, vald er þat en eigi fé:, K. Þ. K. 142.
    COMPDS: goðakviðr, goðalýrittr, goðaþáttr.
    II. = goð, i. e. good genius, in the Icel. game at dice called goða-tafl, with the formula, heima ræð eg goða minn bæði vel og lengi, … og kasta eg svo fyrir þig, cp. also ást-goði.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > GOÐI

  • 10 chez

    chez [∫e]
    • être/rester chez soi to be/stay at home to be/stay in
    • faites comme chez vous ! make yourself at home!
    • on n'est plus chez soi avec tous ces touristes ! it doesn't feel like home any more with all these tourists around!
       b. chez qn (maison) at sb's house ; (appartement) at sb's flat (Brit) or apartment (US)
    • chez moi, c'est tout petit my place is tiny
    • chez M. Lebrun (sur une adresse) c/o Mr Lebrun
    • chez les fourmis/le singe in ants/monkeys
    • chez les hommes/les femmes (Sport) in the men's/women's event
       e. (avec personne, œuvre) chez Balzac in Balzac
    • chez lui, c'est une habitude it's a habit with him
    * * *
    ʃe
    2) (au magasin, cabinet de)

    va chez Hallé, c'est un très bon médecin — go to Hallé, he's/she's a very good doctor

    ‘chez Juliette’ — ( sur une enseigne) ‘Juliette's’

    chez moi/vous/eux — in my/your/their family

    ça va bien/mal chez eux — things are going well/badly for them

    4) (dans le pays, la région de)

    chez nous — ( d'où je viens) where I come from; ( où j'habite) where I live

    chez eux ils appellent ça... — in their part of the world they call this...

    un nom bien de chez nous — (colloq) ( de France) a good old French name; ( de notre région) a good old local name

    5) ( parmi) among

    chez l'homme/l'animal — in man/animals

    ce que j'aime chez elle, c'est son humour — what I like about her, is her sense of humour [BrE]

    * * *
    ʃe prép
    1) (situation: dans la demeure de)

    chez qn — at sb's house, at sb's place

    chez moi — at my house, at home

    Chez moi, c'est moderne: la maison a dû être construite il y a une vingtaine d'années. — My house is modern: it must have been built about twenty years ago.

    Je suis resté chez moi ce week-end. — I stayed at home this weekend.

    2) (direction: à la demeure de)

    chez qn — to sb's house, to sb's place

    chez moi — to my house, home

    Viens chez moi, je te montrerai ma collection de timbres. — Come to my house, I'll show you my stamp collection.

    Viens chez moi, il y une chambre d'amis. — Come and stay at my place, there's a spare bed.

    3) (= à l'entreprise de) (situation) at, (direction) to

    Il travaille chez Renault. — He works for Renault., He works at Renault.

    Je vais chez Larousse cet après-midi. — I'm going to Larousse this afternoon.

    4) (avec profession libérale, un magasin) (situation) at, (direction) to

    chez le boulanger (situation) — at the baker's, (direction) to the baker's

    chez le dentiste (situation) — at the dentist's, (direction) to the dentist's

    J'ai rendez-vous chez le dentiste demain matin. — I've got an appointment at the dentist's tomorrow morning.

    Je vais chez le dentiste. — I'm going to the dentist's.

    5) (= dans le caractère, l'œuvre de) in

    Chez lui, c'est une obsession. — With him it's an obsession.

    * * *
    chez prép
    1 ( au domicile de) chez qn at sb's place; chez David at David's (place); rentre chez toi go home; je reste/travaille/mange chez moi I stay/work/eat at home; tu peux dormir/rester chez moi you can sleep/stay at my place; viens chez moi come to my place; on va chez toi ou chez moi? your place or mine?; on passe chez elle en route we call in on her on the way; de chez qn [téléphoner, sortir, venir] from sb's place; de Paris à chez moi from Paris to my place; je ne veux pas de ça chez moi! I'll have none of that in my home!; fais comme chez toi aussi iron make yourself at home also iron; il a été suivi jusque chez lui he was followed home; derrière chez eux il y a une immense forêt there is a huge forest behind their house; chez qui l'as-tu rencontré? whose place did you meet him at?; vous habitez chez vos parents? do you live with your parents?; faire irruption chez qn to burst in on sb; il a retrouvé le livre chez lui he found the book at home;
    2 ⇒ Les métiers et les professions (magasin, usine, cabinet etc) je ne me sers plus chez eux I don't go there any more; la montre ne vient pas de chez nous this watch doesn't come from our shop GB ou store US; en vente chez tous les dépositaires on sale at all agents; il ne se fait plus soigner les dents chez elle he doesn't use her as a dentist any more; va chez Hallé, c'est un très bon médecin go to Hallé, he's a very good doctor; s'habiller chez un grand couturier to buy one's clothes from a top designer; une montre de chez Lip a Lip watch; paru or publié chez Hachette published by Hachette; le nouveau parfum de chez Patou the new perfume by Patou; je fais mes courses chez l'épicier du coin I do my shopping at the local grocer's; il travaille chez Merlin-Gerin he works at Merlin-Gerin; ‘chez Juliette’ ( sur une enseigne) ‘Juliette's’; il va passer à la télévision, chez Rapp he's going to be on television, on the Rapp show; être convoqué chez le patron ( à son bureau) to be called in before the boss;
    3 ( dans la famille de) chez moi/vous/eux in my/your/their family; comment ça va chez les Pichon? how are the Pichons doing?; ça va bien/mal chez eux things are going well/badly for them;
    4 (dans le pays, la région de) chez nous ( d'où je viens) where I come from; ( où j'habite) where I live; c'est une expression de chez nous it's a local expression; chez eux ils appellent ça… in their part of the world they call this…; un nom/fromage bien de chez nous○ ( de France) a good old French name/cheese; ( de notre région) a good old local name/cheese;
    5 ( parmi) among, chez les enseignants/les femmes enceintes/les Romains among teachers/pregnant women/the Romans; chez les insectes among insects; maladie fréquente chez les bovins common disease in cattle; chez l'homme/l'animal in man/animals;
    6 ( dans la personnalité de) qu'est-ce que tu aimes chez un homme? what do you like in a man?; ce que j'aime chez elle, c'est son humour what I like about her, is her sense of humourGB; c'est une obsession chez elle! it's an obsession with her!;
    7 ( dans l'œuvre de) in; chez Cocteau/Mozart/les surréalistes in Cocteau/Mozart/the surrealists; un thème récurrent chez Buñuel/Prévert a recurrent theme in Buñuel/Prévert.
    [ʃe] préposition
    1. [dans la demeure de]
    il habite chez moi en ce moment he's living with me ou he's staying at my place at the moment
    a. [à pied] she walked him home
    b. [en voiture] she gave him a lift home
    ça s'est passé pas loin de/devant chez nous it happened not far from/right outside where we live
    chez M. Durand [dans une adresse] care of Mr Durand
    b. (ironique) do make yourself at home, won't you
    a. [dans ma famille] in my ou our family
    b. [dans mon pays] in my ou our country
    c'est une coutume/un accent bien de chez nous it's a typical local custom/accent
    2. [dans un magasin, une société etc.]
    aller chez le coiffeur/le médecin to go to the hairdresser's/the doctor's
    je l'ai acheté chez Denver & Smith I bought it from Denver \_ Smith
    une robe de chez Dior a Dior dress, a dress designed by Dior
    3. [dans un pays, un groupe]
    chez l'homme/la femme in men/women
    4. [dans une personne]
    il y a quelque chose que j'apprécie particulièrement chez eux, c'est leur générosité something I particularly like about them is their generosity
    5. [dans l'œuvre de] in

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > chez

  • 11 Cartwright, Revd Edmund

    [br]
    b. 24 April 1743 Marnham, Nottingham, England
    d. 30 October 1823 Hastings, Sussex, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the power loom, a combing machine and machines for making ropes, bread and bricks as well as agricultural improvements.
    [br]
    Edmund Cartwright, the fourth son of William Cartwright, was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, and went to University College, Oxford, at the age of 14. By special act of convocation in 1764, he was elected Fellow of Magdalen College. He married Alice Whitaker in 1772 and soon after was given the ecclesiastical living of Brampton in Derbyshire. In 1779 he was presented with the living of Goadby, Marwood, Leicestershire, where he wrote poems, reviewed new works, and began agricultural experiments. A visit to Matlock in the summer of 1784 introduced him to the inventions of Richard Arkwright and he asked why weaving could not be mechanized in a similar manner to spinning. This began a remarkable career of inventions.
    Cartwright returned home and built a loom which required two strong men to operate it. This was the first attempt in England to develop a power loom. It had a vertical warp, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundredweight and, to quote Gartwright's own words, "the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to throw a Congreive [sic] rocket" (Strickland 19.71:8—for background to the "rocket" comparison, see Congreve, Sir William). Nevertheless, it had the same three basics of weaving that still remain today in modern power looms: shedding or dividing the warp; picking or projecting the shuttle with the weft; and beating that pick of weft into place with a reed. This loom he proudly patented in 1785, and then he went to look at hand looms and was surprised to see how simply they operated. Further improvements to his own loom, covered by two more patents in 1786 and 1787, produced a machine with the more conventional horizontal layout that showed promise; however, the Manchester merchants whom he visited were not interested. He patented more improvements in 1788 as a result of the experience gained in 1786 through establishing a factory at Doncaster with power looms worked by a bull that were the ancestors of modern ones. Twenty-four looms driven by steam-power were installed in Manchester in 1791, but the mill was burned down and no one repeated the experiment. The Doncaster mill was sold in 1793, Cartwright having lost £30,000, However, in 1809 Parliament voted him £10,000 because his looms were then coming into general use.
    In 1789 he began working on a wool-combing machine which he patented in 1790, with further improvements in 1792. This seems to have been the earliest instance of mechanized combing. It used a circular revolving comb from which the long fibres or "top" were. carried off into a can, and a smaller cylinder-comb for teasing out short fibres or "noils", which were taken off by hand. Its output equalled that of twenty hand combers, but it was only relatively successful. It was employed in various Leicestershire and Yorkshire mills, but infringements were frequent and costly to resist. The patent was prolonged for fourteen years after 1801, but even then Cartwright did not make any profit. His 1792 patent also included a machine to make ropes with the outstanding and basic invention of the "cordelier" which he communicated to his friends, including Robert Fulton, but again it brought little financial benefit. As a result of these problems and the lack of remuneration for his inventions, Cartwright moved to London in 1796 and for a time lived in a house built with geometrical bricks of his own design.
    Other inventions followed fast, including a tread-wheel for cranes, metallic packing for pistons in steam-engines, and bread-making and brick-making machines, to mention but a few. He had already returned to agricultural improvements and he put forward suggestions in 1793 for a reaping machine. In 1801 he received a prize from the Board of Agriculture for an essay on husbandry, which was followed in 1803 by a silver medal for the invention of a three-furrow plough and in 1805 by a gold medal for his essay on manures. From 1801 to 1807 he ran an experimental farm on the Duke of Bedford's estates at Woburn.
    From 1786 until his death he was a prebendary of Lincoln. In about 1810 he bought a small farm at Hollanden near Sevenoaks, Kent, where he continued his inventions, both agricultural and general. Inventing to the last, he died at Hastings and was buried in Battle church.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Board of Agriculture Prize 1801 (for an essay on agriculture). Society of Arts, Silver Medal 1803 (for his three-furrow plough); Gold Medal 1805 (for an essay on agricultural improvements).
    Bibliography
    1785. British patent no. 1,270 (power loom).
    1786. British patent no. 1,565 (improved power loom). 1787. British patent no. 1,616 (improved power loom).
    1788. British patent no. 1,676 (improved power loom). 1790, British patent no. 1,747 (wool-combing machine).
    1790, British patent no. 1,787 (wool-combing machine).
    1792, British patent no. 1,876 (improved wool-combing machine and rope-making machine with cordelier).
    Further Reading
    M.Strickland, 1843, A Memoir of the Life, Writings and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, D.D., F.R.S., London (remains the fullest biography of Cartwright).
    Dictionary of National Biography (a good summary of Cartwright's life). For discussions of Cartwright's weaving inventions, see: A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London; R.L. Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester. F.Nasmith, 1925–6, "Fathers of machine cotton manufacture", Transactions of the
    Newcomen Society 6.
    H.W.Dickinson, 1942–3, "A condensed history of rope-making", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 23.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (covers both his power loom and his wool -combing machine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Cartwright, Revd Edmund

  • 12 nunc

    nunc, adv. [Sanscr. nu, nūnam, now; Gr. nu, nun; cf. Lat. num, with demonstr. -ce], now, at present, at this time (prop of that which is present to the speaker or writer).
    A.
    In gen.
    1.
    Contrasted with past time (opp. tum, tunc, antea, quondam, aliquando, olim, etc.):

    longe aliam, inquam, praebes nunc atque olim,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 53; Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 4:

    alium esse censes nunc me atque olim,

    id. And. 3, 3, 13:

    omnia, quae sunt conclusa nunc artibus, dispersa quondam fuerunt,

    Cic. de Or 1, 42, 187:

    sed tu illum animum nunc adhibe, quaeso, quo me tum esse oportere censebas,

    id. Fam. 6, 1, 16; Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 24; Verg. A. 6, 776: sed erat tunc excusatio oppressis;

    nunc nulla est,

    Cic. Phil. 7, 5, 14; Liv. 4, 34, 6; 4, 25, 13:

    arx minus aliquanto nunc munita quam antea,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 5, 13: nunc si videtur, hoc;

    illud alias,

    id. Tusc. 1, 11, 23; Liv. 29, 18, 18; Suet. Tib. 29:

    aut nunc... aut aliquando,

    Cic. Mil. 25, 67:

    ante hoc tempus numquam... sed nunc,

    id. Ac. 1, 1, 3.—
    2.
    Contrasted with future time (opp. postea, mox, olim, etc.):

    Cluentio nisi nunc satisfecero, postea satisfaciendi potestas non erit,

    Cic. Clu. 4, 10; Liv. 39, 19, 6:

    deos nunc testes esse, mox fore ultores,

    id. 3, 2, 4; 3, 25, 8:

    qui olim nominabitur, nunc intellegitur,

    Quint. 10, 1, 104; Verg. A. 4, 627; cf. Liv. 40, 15, 4.—
    3.
    Absol. of present time, without suggestion of contrast, = hodie, nostro tempore:

    nunc tibi pater hic est,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 21:

    Marcellus, qui nunc aedilis curulis est,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 57.— With the interrog. ne, in the form nun-cine (for num-ce-ne;

    ante-class.): hem, nuncin demum?

    Ter. And. 4, 1, 59.—
    B.
    Strengthened by demum, denique, primum (v. h. vv.):

    nunc demum intellego,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 62; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 12:

    nunc demum rescribo his litteris,

    Cic. Att. 16, 3, 1:

    tantum accessit, ut mihi nunc denique amare videar, antea dilexisse,

    id. ib. 14, 17, A, 5; id. Fam. 9, 14, 11; Ov. A. A. 3, 121:

    nunc, quam rem oratum huc veni, primum proloquar,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 50; 2, 2, 63; 2, 2, 52:

    nunc primum hoc aures tuae crimen accipiunt?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 8, § 24; 2, 2, 60, § 147:

    hoc quoque propter tuos ternos denarios nunc primum postulatur,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 25, § 63.—
    C.
    In special phrases.
    1.
    Ut nunc est, as things now are, in the present state of affairs, as matters stand: constitui, ut nunc est, cum exercitu proficisci, Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 31, 17:

    quae (causae) si manebunt... et, ut nunc est, mansurae videntur,

    Cic. Att. 12, 29, 1:

    suaviter, ut nunc est, inquam,

    Hor. S. 1, 9, 5.—
    2.
    Qui nunc sunt, the men of this time, those now living, the present age:

    judiciis, qui nunc sunt. hominum,

    Cic. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15, § 43; Plin. 22, 25, 71, § 147; cf.:

    tace stulta: non tu nunc hominum mores vides?

    of the men of this day, Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 57.—
    3.
    Nunc ipsum, just now, at this very time:

    quin nunc ipsum non dubitabo rem tantam abicere si id erit rectius,

    Cic. Att. 7, 3, 2; 8, 9, 2; 12, 40, 2:

    nunc tamen ipsum,

    id. ib. 12, 16, 11.—Nunc repeated with emphasis:

    nunc, nunc o liceat crudelem abrumpere vitam,

    Verg. A. 8, 579 (al. nunc o nunc);

    5, 189: nunc, nunc adeste, nunc in hostiles domos Iram vertite,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 53.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Of past or future time, conceived as present, now, at that time.
    1.
    Of past time:

    id adeo nos nunc factum invenimus,

    Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 46: item Menandri Phasma nunc nuper dedit (Gr. nun arti), Ter. Eun. prol. 9:

    nunc in causā refrixit,

    Cic. Planc. 23, 55:

    quos ego campos antea nitidissimos vidissem, hos ita vastatos nunc videbam, ut, etc.,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 47:

    nunc reus erat apud Crassum,

    id. Att. 2, 24, 4:

    cum eum antea tui similem in dicendo viderim, tum vero nunc... multo videbam similiorem,

    id. Brut. 71, 250:

    incerto nunc etiam exitu victoriae signa intulerunt,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 62, 6; 6, 40, 6: nunc Saliaribus Ornare pul vinar deorum Tempus erat dapibus, Hor C. 1, 37, 2.—Esp. in orat. obliq., where the nunc of direct narration is retained: dixit, nunc demum se voti esse damnatum, Nep Timol. 5, 3; Liv. 3, 19, 8; 3, 40, 10; 8, 33, 18; 8, 34, 3;

    42, 52, 8: nec nunc adulteria objecturum ait,

    Tac. A. 11, 30; cf. Nipperd. ad Tac. A. 14, 35; Krebs, Antibarb. p. 774. —
    2.
    Of future time (rare):

    quis nunc te adibit? Cui videberis bella? Quem nunc amabis?

    Cat. 8, 16 sq.; Just. 8, 2, 10.—
    B.
    Of the state of affairs, the condition of the argument, etc., now, under these circumstances, in view of this.
    1.
    In gen.:

    nunc quoniam hominem generavit et ornavit deus, perspicuum sit, etc.,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 9, 27; Prop. 4, 9, 73:

    vera igitur illa sunt nunc omnia,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 106:

    non ego nunc vereor, ne sis mihi vilior istis,

    Prop. 1, 2, 25; Ov. F. 1, 333:

    nunc itaque et versus et cetera ludicra pono,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 10:

    quid nunc?

    Plaut. As. 3, 3, 71; id. Aul. 2, 3, 77.—
    2.
    Introducing a fact or conclusion opposed to a previous supposition or thought:

    etiamsi ad vos esset singulos aliquid ex hoc agro perventurum, tamen honestius eum vos universi quam singuli possideretis. Nunc vero cum ad nos nihil pertineat, etc.,

    Cic. Agr. 2, 31, 85; id. Tusc. 3, 1, 2; id. Cat. 2, 7, 16; id. Font. 11, 24: si ecastor nunc habeas quod des, alia verba perhibeas;

    nunc quia nihil habes, maledictis te eam ductare postulas,

    Plaut. As. 1, 3, 36; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 8; Quint. 8, 6, 48; 10, 5, 7; Liv. 21, 40, 3:

    quodsi Mazaeus supervenisset, ingens clades accipi potuit: nunc, dum ille segnis in eo tumulo sedet, etc.,

    Curt. 4, 12, 15.—
    C.
    Nunc... nunc, now... now; at one time, at another; sometimes... sometimes:

    tribuni plebis nunc fraudem, nunc neglegentiam consulum accusabant,

    Liv. 4, 2:

    nunc hac parte, nunc illā,

    id. 34, 13:

    ut nunc in liminibus starent, nunc errabundi domos suas pervagarentur,

    id. 1, 29:

    nunc hos, nunc illos aditus omnemque pererrat Arte locum,

    Verg. A. 5, 441; 5, 189:

    nunc huc, nunc illuc curro,

    Ov. H. 10, 19.—Also thrice repeated:

    nunc ad prima signa, nunc in medium, nunc in ultimo agmine aderat,

    Curt. 7, 3, 17; Just. 4, 1, 4;

    and even five times,

    Sen. Dial. 5 (Ira), 3, 6.—The first nunc is sometimes poetically omitted: pariterque sinistros, Nunc dextros solvere sinus, Verg. A. [p. 1228] 5, 830.—
    b.
    Nunc... mox, Vell. 2, 63.—
    c.
    Nunc... postremo, Liv. 3, 49.—
    d.
    Nunc... modo, Liv. 8, 32; Ov. M. 13, 922.—
    D.
    In forming a climax, but now, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 8:

    quae quidem multo plura evenirent, si ad quietem integri iremus: nunc onusti cibo et vino perturbata et confusa cernimus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60:

    si haec non ad cives Romanos, si non ad homines, verum ad bestias conqueri vellem, tamen tantā rerum atrocitate commoverentur. Nunc vero cum loquar apud senatores populi Romani, etc.,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 171:

    si... nunc (vero),

    id. Font. 11, 25; id. Cat. 2, 7, 14; id. Fam. 15, 13, 3: cum aliquid videbatur caveri posse, tum id neglegi dolebam;

    nunc vero, eversis omnibus rebus, etc.,

    id. ib. 6, 21, 1: cum... nunc vero, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 19, 1.—
    E.
    In a transition, to introduce a new subject, in that case, now, then: abi nunc, populi fidem implora, Auct. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3; Sen. Ben. 5, 12, 3 sq.; 6, 35, 5; Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 17; cf. Sall. J. 14, 17; for nunciam, v. jam, I. A. 1. b.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > nunc

  • 13 gaucho

    adj.
    1 Argentinean.
    2 gaucho.
    m.
    gaucho, cowboy of the pampas.
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) LAm gaucho; (=vaquero) cowboy, herdsman, herder (EEUU)
    2) Cono Sur (=jinete) good rider, expert horseman
    3) And (=sombrero) wide-brimmed straw hat
    2. ADJ
    1) gaucho antes de s, gaucho-like
    2) Cono Sur * (=servicial) helpful
    GAUCHO Gaucho is the name given to the men who rode the Pampa, the plains of Argentina, Uruguay and parts of southern Brazil, earning their living on cattle farms. Important parts of the gaucho's traditional costume include the faja, a sash worn around the waist, the facón, a sheath knife, and boleadoras, strips of leather weighted with stones at either end which were used somewhat like lassos to catch cattle. During the 19th century this vast pampas area was divided up into large ranches and the free-roaming lifestyle of the gaucho gradually disappeared. Gauchos were the inspiration for a tradition of literatura gauchesca, of which the most famous work is the two-part epic poem "Martín Fierro" written by the Argentine José Hernández between 1872 and 1879 and mourning the loss of the gaucho way of life and their persecution as outlaws.
    * * *
    masculino gaucho
    •• Cultural note:
    A peasant of the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Modern gauchos work as foremen on farms and ranches and take part in rodeos. Gauchos fought for Argentine independence from Spain, but later became involved in political disputes and suffered persecution. A literary genre, literatura gauchesca, grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most famous work is Martín Fierro, an epic poem by José Hernández about the misfortunes of an Argentine gaucho when the huge pampas are divided into ranches. Traditionally gauchos wore baggy trousers, leather chaps, a chiripá, a garment that went over their trousers and came up around their waist, boots, a hat, a leather waistcoat, a belt with a large buckle. They carried a facón - a large knife with a curved blade, and used boleadoras, ropes weighted at each end and thrown like lassos, to catch cattle
    * * *
    masculino gaucho
    •• Cultural note:
    A peasant of the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Modern gauchos work as foremen on farms and ranches and take part in rodeos. Gauchos fought for Argentine independence from Spain, but later became involved in political disputes and suffered persecution. A literary genre, literatura gauchesca, grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most famous work is Martín Fierro, an epic poem by José Hernández about the misfortunes of an Argentine gaucho when the huge pampas are divided into ranches. Traditionally gauchos wore baggy trousers, leather chaps, a chiripá, a garment that went over their trousers and came up around their waist, boots, a hat, a leather waistcoat, a belt with a large buckle. They carried a facón - a large knife with a curved blade, and used boleadoras, ropes weighted at each end and thrown like lassos, to catch cattle
    * * *
    1 ( RPl fam) (servicial) helpful, obliging
    2 ( Chi) (argentino) Argentinian
    gaucho (↑ gaucho a1)
    A peasant of the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Modern gauchos work as foremen on farms and ranches and take part in rodeos.
    Gauchos fought for Argentine independence from Spain, but later became involved in political disputes and suffered persecution.
    A literary genre, literatura gauchesca, grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most famous work is Martín Fierro, an epic poem by José Hernández about the misfortunes of an Argentine gaucho when the huge pampas are divided into ranches.
    Traditionally gauchos wore baggy trousers, leather chaps, a chiripá, a garment that went over their trousers and came up around their waist, boots, a hat, a leather waistcoat, a belt with a large buckle. They carried a facón - a large knife with a curved blade, and used boleadoras, ropes weighted at each end and thrown like lassos, to catch cattle.
    * * *

    gaucho sustantivo masculino
    gaucho
    ' gaucho' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bombacha
    - matrero
    * * *
    gaucho, -a
    ♦ adj
    RP Fam [servicial] helpful, obliging
    ♦ nm,f
    gaucho
    GAUCHO
    The Gauchos were the cowboys of Argentina and Uruguay, skilled horsemen who were in charge of the huge cattle-herds of the pampas. The culture of the Gaucho, which dates from colonial times, combines elements from several sources: Spain, indigenous Indian culture, and that of freed slaves. They gained fame for their courage and daring during the wars of independence against Spain, but they later became increasingly marginalized because of their fiercely independent spirit and nomadic customs. Nevertheless they remain vivid figures in the national imagination, together with their working tools and weapons – the Spanish hunting knife and Indian “boleadoras” – their distinctive clothing, such as the poncho, and customs, such as drinking mate and singing campfire songs. They were immortalized by José Hernández in his long poem “El gaucho Martín Fierro” (1872-79), which is Argentina's national epic and did much to create and popularize their legend. Although this tradition may be affectionately sent up nowadays (e.g. in the comic strip “Inodoro Pereyra” by the cartoonist Fontanarrosa), the Gaucho is still regarded by many as the embodiment of the virtues of solidarity and companionship.
    * * *
    Rpl
    I adj gaucho atr
    II m gaucho
    * * *
    gaucho nm
    : gaucho

    Spanish-English dictionary > gaucho

  • 14 μέταυλος

    Grammatical information: adj.
    Meaning: attribut. to θύρα (Ar., Lys., Plu.), also substantivized f. `the door that opens from the (outside) court, or from the living of the men, towards the back rooms' (opposite ἡ αὔλειος θύρα `the outside door'), in Vitr. (6, 7, 5) of a corresponding corridor;
    Other forms: μέσαυλος (E., Ph. [v. l. - λιος, Vitr.), μέσσαυλος (- ον) `the inner court where the cattle were put for the night' (Hom., A. R. 3, 235); μεσαύλη f. `court inside the houses' (pap. VIp; reading not quite certain).
    Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]
    Etymology: Att. μέταυλος indicates as hypostasis either ἡ μετ' αὑλήν ( θύρα), i. e. the court behind the (outward) court, or ἡ μετ' αὑλῆς ( μετ' αὑλῶν θῦρα), i. e. the door in the middle of the court (between both courts); the meaning, which changed with the organisation of the house, cannot be settled without exact knowledge of the plan of the house, cf. the explanations by Wistrand Eranos 37, 16ff.; the etymological analysis is accordingly uncertain. On μεσο- for older μετα- Wackernagel Syntax 2. 242. -- Hom. μέσσαυλος seems however to stand for τὸ μέσον or (εν) μέσσῳ αὑλῆς and "what belongs to the middle of the court" or "what is in the middle of the court", i. e. `middle of the court, inner of the court', cf. Risch IF 59, 19f.; it should then be separated from μέταυλος. In A. R. 3, 235 ep. μέσσαυλος may have been influenced by the later μέσαυλος; late μεσαύλη followed the simplex.
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    Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > μέταυλος

  • 15 Stevenson, Robert

    [br]
    b. 8 June 1772 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 12 July 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish lighthouse designer and builder.
    [br]
    After his father's death when he was only 2 years old, Robert Stevenson was educated at a school for children from families in reduced circumstances. However, c. 1788 his mother married again, to Thomas Smith, Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board. Stevenson then served an apprenticeship under his new stepfather. The Board, which is still an active force in the 1990s, was founded in 1786 to oversee the lights and buoyage in some of the wildest waters in Western Europe, the seas around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
    After studies at Andersen's College (now the University of Strathclyde) and later at Edinburgh University, Stevenson assumed responsibility in the field for much of the construction work sanctioned by the Board. After some years he succeeded Smith as Engineer to the Board and thereby the long connection between the Northern Lights and the Stevenson family commenced.
    Stevenson became Engineer to the Board when he was about 30 years old, remaining in that office for the best part of half a century. During these years he improved catoptric lighting, adopted the central lamp refracting system and invented the intermittent flashing light. While these developments were sufficient to form a just memorial to the man, he was involved in greater endeavours in the construction of around twenty lighthouses, most of which had ingenious forms of construction. The finest piece was the Bell Rock Lighthouse, built on a reef off the Scottish East Coast. This enterprise took five years to complete and can be regarded as the most important construction of his life.
    His interests fitted in with those of the other great men living in and around Edinburgh at the time, and included oceanography, astronomy, architecture and antiquarian studies. He designed several notable bridges, proposed a design for the rails for railways and also made a notable study of marine timber borers. He contributed to Encyclopaedia Britannica and to many journals.
    His grandson, born in the year of his death, was the famous author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94).
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS Edinburgh.
    Further Reading
    Sir Walter Scott, 1982, Northern Lights, Hawick.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Stevenson, Robert

  • 16 ἐφίστημι

    ἐφίστημι (s. ἵστημι; Hom. et al.; ins, pap, LXX; TestJob 17:2; EpArist, Joseph.; Just. [‘pay attention’ D. 28, 1]; Ath.) fut. ἐπιστήσω; 1 aor. ἐπέστησα LXX; 2 aor. ἐπέστην, impv. ἐπίστηθι, ptc. ἐπιστάς; pf. ἐφέστηκα LXX, ptc. ἐφεστώς; plpf. 3 sg. ἐφειστήκει LXX; mid. 3 sg. indic. ἐπίσταται 1 Th 5:3 v.l. (on the form s. W-S. §5, 10c); 1 aor. pass. ἐπεστάθην 1 Cl 12:4; Hv 3, 1, 6. This aor. pass. can have mid. mng. (Eur., Iph. T. 1375 al.) and as a rule the mid. has, like the 2 aor., pf. and plpf. act., intransitive sense; it is only this intr. sense that is found for ἐφίστημι in our lit.
    ① to stand at or near a specific place, stand at/near, of living entities and oft. w. connotation of suddenness, pres. and aor. w. dat. of pers. Lk 2:9; 24:4 (of angels, as Diod S 1, 25, 5 of Isis in a dream; Lucian, Dial. Deor. 17, 1 of Hephaestus; SIG 1168, 37 ὁ θεὸς ἐπιστάς; TestSol 1:8 ἐν ᾗ ἂν ὥρᾳ ἐπιστῇ σοι τὸ δαιμόνιον; Jos., Ant. 3, 188. Of a figure in a dream Hdt. 5, 56); Ac 4:1; 12:7 D; 23:11. ἐπεστάθη μοι she approached me Hv 3, 1, 6. ἐπί τι approach or stand by someth. (Sir 41:24) Ac 10:17; 11:11. ἐπάνω τινός stand at someone’s head Lk 4:39 (cp. 2 Km 1:9). περιστερὰ … ἐπεστάθη ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ Ἰωσήφ a dove … perched on the head of Joseph GJs 9:1 (ἐπετάσθη v.l.). Abs. (EpArist 177) Lk 2:38; 10:40; 20:1; Ac 6:12; 12:7; 22:13; 23:27; 1 Cl 12:4; MPol 6:1; GJs 4:1 v.l.; AcPl Ha 4, 8.—Perf. stand by, be present αὐτὸς ἤμην ἐφεστώς I (myself) was standing by Ac 22:20 (cp. Jos., Vi. 294).
    ② to happen, esp. of misfortunes, which (suddenly) come upon someone, happen to, overtake, befall (Soph., Oed. R. 777; Thu. 3, 82, 2; LXX) w. dat. of pers. (cp. Cornutus 10 p. 11, 17; Wsd 6:8; 19:1) αἰφνίδιος αὐτοῖς ἐφίσταται ὄλεθρος 1 Th 5:3. ἐπί τινα Lk 21:34.—DDaube, The Sudden in the Scriptures ’64, 36.
    ③ to come near with intention of harming, attack w. dat. of thing τῇ οἰκίᾳ Ἰ. Ac 17:5.
    ④ to be present to begin someth., begin, come on perf. διὰ τ. ὑετὸν τὸν ἐφεστῶτα because it had begun to rain Ac 28:2 (Polyb. 18, 20, 7 διὰ τὸν ἐφεστῶτα ζόφον). But the mng. here could also be because it threatened to rain (s. 6).
    ⑤ to be present in readiness to discharge a task, fix one’s mind on, be attentive to (Eur., Andr. 547; Demosth. 18, 60) ἐπίστηθι stand by = be ready, be on hand, be persistent 2 Ti 4:2.
    ⑥ to be before one as an event about to occur, be imminent perf. (Il. 12, 326; Demosth. 18, 176; Jos., Ant. 13, 241, Vi. 137 al.) ὁ καιρὸς τῆς ἀναλύσεώς μου ἐφέστηκεν the time of my departure is imminent 2 Ti 4:6. For Ac 28:2 s. 4.
    ⑦ to stand over someth. as leader or overseer, be over, be in charge of perf. (Eur., Aristoph. et al.: Jdth 8:10; 12:11; Synes., Ep. 140 p. 276b ὁ ἐφεστὼς θεός; Just., D. 36, 6; Ath. 12, 1; 31, 2) εἴς τι: οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ εἰς τὴν οἱκοδομὴν ἐφεστῶτες the men who were in charge of the construction Hs 9, 6, 2.—M-M. TW.

    Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία > ἐφίστημι

  • 17 כתּ

    כַּתְּc. (כָּתַת) band, party, class. Pes.V, 7 כת ראשונה the first division. Ib. של כ׳ שלישית those of the third division; a. v. fr.Kel. XXV, 4 של כת קודמין הואוכ׳ this belongs to the class of things of which you cannot tell which was first; may be the one-quart measure is the lower side of the half-quart measure (Maim.; for oth. explan., v. comment.); (ed. Dehr. של בת, Ar. שלחת, Var. שלבת, Mus. שלכב, Bart. שלות).Pl. כִּתִּים, כִּתִּין, כִּתּוֹת, כִּי׳. Y.Taan.II, 65d top ארבע כ׳ נעשווכ׳ our ancestors at the Red Sea were divided into four parties (opinions); Mekh. Bshall.s.2. Gen. R. s. 8 נעשומה״ש כ׳ כ׳ the ministering angels formed parties (of divided opinions concerning the creation of man). Shebu.47b; B. Bath.31b שתי כִּיּתֵּי עדים two sets of witnesses. Lev. R. s. 9 כ׳ כ׳ של ליסטים bands of (captured) robbers (rebels). Midr. Till. to Ps. 40:7; Yalk. ib. 656 שבע כ׳ הןוכ׳ there are seven classes of people who will (after death) be admitted into the presence of the Ever-living. Ib. אלו שבע כ׳ של צדיקים these are the seven classes of righteous men. Sabb.104a (v. א״ל) ט״ר י״ש כ״ת טר יש לי כ׳ כ׳וכ׳ wait, I have many classes of gentiles ; a. fr.

    Jewish literature > כתּ

  • 18 כַּתְּ

    כַּתְּc. (כָּתַת) band, party, class. Pes.V, 7 כת ראשונה the first division. Ib. של כ׳ שלישית those of the third division; a. v. fr.Kel. XXV, 4 של כת קודמין הואוכ׳ this belongs to the class of things of which you cannot tell which was first; may be the one-quart measure is the lower side of the half-quart measure (Maim.; for oth. explan., v. comment.); (ed. Dehr. של בת, Ar. שלחת, Var. שלבת, Mus. שלכב, Bart. שלות).Pl. כִּתִּים, כִּתִּין, כִּתּוֹת, כִּי׳. Y.Taan.II, 65d top ארבע כ׳ נעשווכ׳ our ancestors at the Red Sea were divided into four parties (opinions); Mekh. Bshall.s.2. Gen. R. s. 8 נעשומה״ש כ׳ כ׳ the ministering angels formed parties (of divided opinions concerning the creation of man). Shebu.47b; B. Bath.31b שתי כִּיּתֵּי עדים two sets of witnesses. Lev. R. s. 9 כ׳ כ׳ של ליסטים bands of (captured) robbers (rebels). Midr. Till. to Ps. 40:7; Yalk. ib. 656 שבע כ׳ הןוכ׳ there are seven classes of people who will (after death) be admitted into the presence of the Ever-living. Ib. אלו שבע כ׳ של צדיקים these are the seven classes of righteous men. Sabb.104a (v. א״ל) ט״ר י״ש כ״ת טר יש לי כ׳ כ׳וכ׳ wait, I have many classes of gentiles ; a. fr.

    Jewish literature > כַּתְּ

  • 19 bie|da

    f 1. sgt (ubóstwo) poverty
    - żyć w biedzie to live in poverty
    - doskwierała mu bieda he was poverty-stricken
    2. (kłopot) trouble C/U
    - wpakować się w biedę to get into trouble
    - (cała) bieda w tym, że… the problem a. trouble a. snag is…
    - napytać sobie biedy to make trouble for oneself
    - sam sobie napytał biedy he brought it on himself
    - napytać komuś biedy to cause sb trouble
    3. sgt pot. (biedacy) poor people, the poor 4. przest. (dwukółka) small, horse-drawn two-wheeled cart
    ■ bieda z nędzą (osoba) a poor wretch; (sytuacja) utter a. grinding poverty
    - u nich bieda z nędzą a. bieda aż piszczy they’re (living) on the breadline, they don’t have two pennies to rub together
    - klepać biedę to live from hand to mouth
    - od biedy (w braku czegoś lepszego) for want of anything better
    - to ujdzie od biedy it’ll do, just about a. for want of anything better
    - pół biedy the least of one’s worries
    - pół biedy z materiałami, dużo gorzej znaleźć ekipę the materials are the least of our worries, the worst thing is finding the men
    - to jeszcze pół biedy that’s not so bad
    - „co słychać”? – „stara bieda” ‘how are things?’ – ‘same as ever’
    - z biedą (w braku czegoś lepszego) just about; (niechętnie) if one (really) has to; (z trudnością) [robić coś, radzić sobie] just about, only just

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > bie|da

  • 20 עלבון

    עֶלְבּוֹןm. (preced.) arrogance, humiliation, insult. Gen. R. s. 45, end (ref. to Gen. 16:13) אתה הוא הרואה בע׳ של עלובים thou seest the humiliation of the humbled. Ib. s. 60 (ref. to Gen. 24:62) הלך להביא … ראה בעֶלְבּוֹנִי he went to bring back Hagar, her who sat by the well and said to the Ever-living, behold my humiliation. Ab. Zar.18a מי שמבקש עֶלְבּוֹנָהּ של תורהוכ׳ (not שלס״ת) he who will resent the insult offered to the Law, shall also resent the insult offered to me. Ex. R. s. 41; Ab.ch.VI אוי להם לבריות מעלבונה של תורה woe to men for the disregard of the Law; a. e.

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