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literati
(encz) | literati,literáti Jaroslav Šedivý |
Literati
(gcide) | Literati \Lit`e*ra"ti\ (l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[=e];
l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[imac]), n. pl. [See Literatus.]
Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
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Shakespearean commentators, and other literati.
--Craik.
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Literati
(gcide) | Literatus \Lit`e*ra"tus\ (l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[u^]s;
l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[u^]s), n.; pl. Literati
(l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[=e]; l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[imac]). [L.
litteratus, literatus.]
A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly
used in the plural.
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Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a
literatus may chance to be maimed. --De Quincey.
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literati
(wn) | literati
n 1: the literary intelligentsia |
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alliteration
(encz) | alliteration,aliterace n: Zdeněk Brož |
alliterative
(encz) | alliterative,aliterační adj: Zdeněk Brožalliterative,opakování prvního písmene Jan Hradil |
literati
(encz) | literati,literáti Jaroslav Šedivý |
literatim
(encz) | literatim, adv: |
obliterating
(encz) | obliterating, |
obliteration
(encz) | obliteration,vyhlazení n: Zdeněk Brožobliteration,vymazání n: Zdeněk Brož |
transliterating
(encz) | transliterating, |
transliteration
(encz) | transliteration,přepis n: Zdeněk Brožtransliteration,transliterace n: Zdeněk Brož |
Alliteration
(gcide) | Alliteration \Al*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. ad + litera letter. See
Letter.]
The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or
more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short
intervals; as in the following lines:
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Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness. --Milton.
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Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. --Tennyson.
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Note: The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of
words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry
is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort.
Later poets also employed it.
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In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. --P.
Plowman.
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Alliterative
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Alliteratively
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Alliterativeness
(gcide) | Alliterative \Al*lit"er*a*tive\ (?; 277), a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as,
alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. --
Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
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Literatim
(gcide) | Literatim \Lit`e*ra"tim\ (l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[i^]m), adv. [LL.,
fr. L. littera, litera, letter.]
Letter for letter.
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Literation
(gcide) | Literation \Lit`er*a"tion\ (l[i^]t`[~e]r*[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
littera, litera, letter.]
The act or process of representing by letters.
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Obliterating
(gcide) | Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obliterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Obliterating.] [L. obliteratus, p. p. of
obliterare to obliterate; ob (see Ob-) + litera, littera,
letter. See Letter.]
1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable,
as a writing.
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2. To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to
render imperceptible; as, to obliterate ideas; to
obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
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The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that
experience are slowly obliterated. --W. Black.
[1913 Webster]obliterating \obliterating\ adj.
making undecipherable or imperceptible; as, obliterating
mists.
Syn: obscurant.
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obliterating
(gcide) | Obliterate \Ob*lit"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obliterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Obliterating.] [L. obliteratus, p. p. of
obliterare to obliterate; ob (see Ob-) + litera, littera,
letter. See Letter.]
1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable,
as a writing.
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2. To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to
render imperceptible; as, to obliterate ideas; to
obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
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The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that
experience are slowly obliterated. --W. Black.
[1913 Webster]obliterating \obliterating\ adj.
making undecipherable or imperceptible; as, obliterating
mists.
Syn: obscurant.
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Obliteration
(gcide) | Obliteration \Ob*lit`er*a"tion\, n. [L. obliteratio: cf. F.
oblit['e]ration.]
The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated;
extinction. --Sir. M. Hale.
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Obliterative
(gcide) | Obliterative \Ob*lit"er*a*tive\, a.
Tending or serving to obliterate.
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Transliteration
(gcide) | Transliteration \Trans*lit`er*a"tion\, n.
The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words
of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
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Verbatim et literatim
(gcide) | Verbatim \Ver*ba"tim\, adv. [LL., fr. L. verbum word.]
Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a
story verbatim as another has related it.
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Verbatim et literatim [LL.], word for word, and letter for
letter.
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alliteration
(wn) | alliteration
n 1: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed
syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged
rascal ran" [syn: alliteration, initial rhyme,
beginning rhyme, head rhyme] |
alliterative
(wn) | alliterative
adj 1: having the same consonant at the beginning of each
stressed syllable; "alliterative verse" |
alliteratively
(wn) | alliteratively
adv 1: in an alliterative manner; "the early Norse poets wrote
alliteratively" |
literati
(wn) | literati
n 1: the literary intelligentsia |
literatim
(wn) | literatim
adv 1: letter for letter; "the message was transcribed
literatim" |
obliteration
(wn) | obliteration
n 1: destruction by annihilating something [syn: annihilation,
obliteration]
2: the complete destruction of every trace of something [syn:
eradication, obliteration] |
transliteration
(wn) | transliteration
n 1: a transcription from one alphabet to another |
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