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tues
(encz) | Tues, |
tues
(wn) | Tues
n 1: the third day of the week; the second working day [syn:
Tuesday, Tues] |
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tuesday
(mass) | Tuesday
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shrove tuesday
(encz) | Shrove Tuesday,masopustní úterý Pino |
statues
(encz) | statues,sochy pl. |
statuesque
(encz) | statuesque,vznešený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
statuesquely
(encz) | statuesquely, |
statuesqueness
(encz) | statuesqueness,nehybnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
tuesday
(encz) | Tuesday,úterý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tuesdays
(encz) | Tuesdays, |
virtues
(encz) | virtues,přednosti n: Zdeněk Brož |
whit-tuesday
(encz) | Whit-Tuesday, |
Cardinal virtues
(gcide) | Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus
strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See
Virile, and cf. Virtu.]
1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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Built too strong
For force or virtue ever to expugn. --Chapman.
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2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the
production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency;
efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
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Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30.
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A man was driven to depend for his security against
misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his
syntax. --De Quincey.
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The virtue of his midnight agony. --Keble.
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3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
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She moves the body which she doth possess,
Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir.
J. Davies.
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4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
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I made virtue of necessity. --Chaucer.
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In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is
better observed than in Terence, who thought the
sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in
of sentences. --B. Jonson.
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5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
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Virtue only makes our bliss below. --Pope.
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If there's Power above us,
And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.
--Addison.
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6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc. "The very virtue of
compassion." --Shak. "Remember all his virtues."
--Addison.
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7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity
of women; virginity.
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H. I believe the girl has virtue.
M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the
world to attempt to corrupt it. --Goldsmith.
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8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
--Milton.
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Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal, a.
In virtue of, or By virtue of, through the force of; by
authority of. "He used to travel through Greece by virtue
of this fable, which procured him reception in all the
towns." --Addison. "This they shall attain, partly in
virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of
piety." --Atterbury.
Theological virtues, the three virtues, faith, hope, and
charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.
[1913 Webster]Cardinal \Car"di*nal\, a. [L. cardinalis, fr. cardo the hinge of
a door, that on which a thing turns or depends: cf. F.
cardinal.]
Of fundamental importance; pre["e]minent; superior; chief;
principal.
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The cardinal intersections of the zodiac. --Sir T.
Browne.
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Impudence is now a cardinal virtue. --Drayton.
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But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
--Shak.
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Cardinal numbers, the numbers one, two, three, etc., in
distinction from first, second, third, etc., which are
called ordinal numbers.
Cardinal points
(a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or
intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the
prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west.
(b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith
and nadir.
Cardinal signs (Astron.) Aries, Libra, Cancer, and
Capricorn.
Cardinal teeth (Zool.), the central teeth of bivalve shell.
See Bivalve.
Cardinal veins (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos,
which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the
blood to the heart. They remain through life in some
fishes.
Cardinal virtues, pre["e]minent virtues; among the
ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.
Cardinal winds, winds which blow from the cardinal points
due north, south, east, or west.
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Shrove Tuesday
(gcide) | Shrove \Shrove\,
imp. of Shrive.
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Shrove Sunday, Quinguagesima Sunday.
Shrove Tuesday, the Tuesday following Quinguagesima Sunday,
and preceding the first day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday.
Note: It was formerly customary in England, on this day, for
the people to confess their sins to their parish
priests, after which they dined on pancakes, or
fritters, and the occasion became one of merriment. The
bell rung on this day is popularly called Pancake Bell,
and the day itself Pancake Tuesday. --P. Cyc.
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Statuesque
(gcide) | Statuesque \Stat`u*esque"\ (st[a^]ch`[=oo]*[e^]sk" or
st[a^]t`[-u]*[e^]sk"), a.
Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a
statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue
artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque
attitude.
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Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this
respect, that they have no background. --Hare.
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Statuesquely
(gcide) | Statuesquely \Stat`u*esque"ly\, adv.
In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like
a statue.
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A character statuesquely simple in its details.
--Lowell.
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Theological virtues
(gcide) | Virtue \Vir"tue\ (?; 135), n. [OE. vertu, F. vertu, L. virtus
strength, courage, excellence, virtue, fr. vir a man. See
Virile, and cf. Virtu.]
1. Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
[Obs.] --Shak.
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Built too strong
For force or virtue ever to expugn. --Chapman.
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2. Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the
production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency;
efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
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Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue
had gone out of him, turned him about. --Mark v. 30.
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A man was driven to depend for his security against
misunderstanding, upon the pure virtue of his
syntax. --De Quincey.
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The virtue of his midnight agony. --Keble.
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3. Energy or influence operating without contact of the
material or sensible substance.
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She moves the body which she doth possess,
Yet no part toucheth, but by virtue's touch. --Sir.
J. Davies.
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4. Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
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I made virtue of necessity. --Chaucer.
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In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is
better observed than in Terence, who thought the
sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in
of sentences. --B. Jonson.
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5. Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character;
purity of soul; performance of duty.
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Virtue only makes our bliss below. --Pope.
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If there's Power above us,
And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works, he must delight in virtue.
--Addison.
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6. A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of
temperance, of charity, etc. "The very virtue of
compassion." --Shak. "Remember all his virtues."
--Addison.
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7. Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity
of women; virginity.
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H. I believe the girl has virtue.
M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the
world to attempt to corrupt it. --Goldsmith.
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8. pl. One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
--Milton.
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Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal, a.
In virtue of, or By virtue of, through the force of; by
authority of. "He used to travel through Greece by virtue
of this fable, which procured him reception in all the
towns." --Addison. "This they shall attain, partly in
virtue of the promise made by God, and partly in virtue of
piety." --Atterbury.
Theological virtues, the three virtues, faith, hope, and
charity. See --1 Cor. xiii. 13.
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Tuesday
(gcide) | Tuesday \Tues"day\ (t[=u]z"d[asl]; 48), n. [OE. Tewesday, AS.
Tiwes d[ae]g the day of Tiw the god of war; akin to OHG. Zio,
Icel. T[=y]r, L. Jupiter, Gr. Zey`s;, cf. OHG. Ziostac
Tuesday, G. Dienstag, Icel. T[=y]sdagr. [root]244. See
Deity, Day, and cf. Jovial.]
The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding
Wednesday.
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Whitsun Tuesday
(gcide) | Whittuesday \Whit"tues`day\, n. (Eccl.)
The day following Whitmonday; -- called also {Whitsun
Tuesday}.
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Whittuesday
(gcide) | Whittuesday \Whit"tues`day\, n. (Eccl.)
The day following Whitmonday; -- called also {Whitsun
Tuesday}.
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fat tuesday
(wn) | Fat Tuesday
n 1: a carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday (the
last day before Lent) but especially in New Orleans [syn:
Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday] |
shrove tuesday
(wn) | Shrove Tuesday
n 1: the last day before Lent [syn: Mardi Gras, {Shrove
Tuesday}, pancake day] |
statuesque
(wn) | statuesque
adj 1: of size and dignity suggestive of a statue [syn:
stately, statuesque]
2: suggestive of a statue [syn: Junoesque, statuesque] |
tuesday
(wn) | Tuesday
n 1: the third day of the week; the second working day [syn:
Tuesday, Tues] |
whit-tuesday
(wn) | Whit-Tuesday
n 1: the day after Whitmonday [syn: Whit-Tuesday, {Whitsun
Tuesday}] |
whitsun tuesday
(wn) | Whitsun Tuesday
n 1: the day after Whitmonday [syn: Whit-Tuesday, {Whitsun
Tuesday}] |
virtues
(devil) | VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
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