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This is the term in use for the doctrine that the mission given to the apostles by Christ (John xx, 23 and Matt. xxviii, 19) must extend to their legitimate successors in an unbroken line. This means in practice that only those clergy who have been ordained by bishops who are themselves • in the succession can administer the sacra- ments and perform other sacerdotal functions.
To talk like an apothecary; to use hard or gallipot words: from the assumed gravity and affectation of knowledge generally put on by the gentlemen of this profession, who are commonly as superficial in their learning as they are pedantic in their language.
obsolete or pretentious language
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
to attract or interest someone
One's interest or desire increases as they engage in an activity
The oldest and best known of all the Roman roads, leading from Rome to Brundisium (Brindisi) by way of
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
Down with his apple-cart; knock or throw him down.
A cause of dispute; something to contend about. At the marriage of Thetis and Peleus, where all the gods and goddesses met together, Discord (Ens), who had not been invited, threw on the table a golden apple "for the most beautiful." Juno, Minerva, and Venus put m their separate claims; the point was referred to Paris (g.v ), who gave judgment in favour of Venus.
a person cherished and loved above all others
The pupil, because it was anciently supposed to be a round solid ball like an apple. Figuratively applied to anything extremely dear or extremely sensitive. He kept him as the apple of his eye. — Deut. xxxii, 10.
Someone who tries to win favor by flattering people or doing small tasks
The name given to John Reid, and his friends, from Scotland, who were responsible for the introduction of Golf into U.S.A. in 1888, at Yonkers, N.Y. The name was coined in 1892 when Reid and his friends moved to their 3rd " course " at Yonkers — a 34-acre orchard which yielded six holes.
The human structure, so far as the phrases with which it is connected are concerned. As "I’ll upset your APPLE-CART," "down with his APPLE-CART."
A trick played at schools on new comers, or on any boy disliked by the rest. One of the sheets is removed, and the other is doubled in the middle, so that both edges are brought to the top, and look as if both sheets were there; but the unhappy occupant is prevented getting more than half-way down, and he has to remake his bed as best he can. This trick is sometimes played by children of a larger growth.
A bed in which the sheets are so folded that a person cannot get his legs down; perhaps a corruption of "a nappe-pli bed," from the Fr. nappe phee, a folded sheet. Also incorrectly used by schoolboys to describe a bed into which a quantity of strange objects have been piled to discomfit the occupant.
In exact or very nice order.
Prim and precise order. The origin of this phrase is still doubtful. Perhaps the suggestion made above of nappe- pli (Fr. nappes phees, folded linen, neat as folded linen) is near the mark.
A bed made apple-pye fashion, like what is called a turnover apple-pye, where the sheets are so doubled as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them: a common trick played by frolicsome country lasses on their sweethearts, male relations, or visitors.
Clipping of apple and pears or apples and pears (“stairs”).
a rhyming slang expression for stairs
In Scandinavian mythology, the golden apples of perpetual youth, in the keeping of Idhunn, daughter of the dwarf Svald, and wife of Bragi. It is by tasting them that the gods preserve their youth.
Thevenot says — "There are apple-trees on the sides of the Dead Sea which bear lovely fruit, but within are full of ashes." Josephus, Strabo, Tacitus, and others speak of these apples, and are probably referring to the gall-nuts produced by the insect Cynips wsana. The phrase is used figuratively for anything disappointing.
Comparing similar things to each other
Comparing similar things to each other
to formally ask for something
To work hard and devote oneself to a task or activity
to be relevant or suitable for a person
Contraction of approbation, a word much in use among jewellers. Most of the extensive show of chains, watches, and trinkets in a shop window is obtained "ON APPRO," i.e., "on sale or return."
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After me the deluge — I care Jtot what happens after I am dead and gone.
Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand, on the first of April; which day it is the custom among the lower people, children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully doubled up, sending persons on absurd messages, and such like contrivances, to impose on every one they can, and then to salute them with the title of April Fool. This is also practised in Scotland under the title of Hunting the Gowke.
Called in France tm poisson d'Awil Gy.v.), and in Scotland a gowk (cuckoo).
Flowers.
Difficult times can lead to better circumstances later
Tied to or controlled by someone, often a parent or spouse.
An estate held by a man during his wife's life.
to control someone tightly
A tenure held in virtue of one's wife. Tied to his mother's apron- string. Completely under his mother's thumb. Applied to a big boy or young man who is still under mother rule.
Pump water.
Felix is a mistranslation by Ptolemy of Yemen, which means to the "right*' — i.e. of Mecca.
Since World War I — as a consequence of which it was freed from Turkish rule and constituted a separate king- dom—its name has been changed to Irak (#,v.), or Iraq.
The others were Byerley Turk, the charger of Capt. Byerley at the Battle of the Boyne, and Godolphm Arabian, brought to England in 1730 by Edward Coke, from whose hands he passed into the possession of the Earl of Godolphm.
A day set apart in Canada and the United States for planting trees. It was first inaugurated about 1885 in Nebraska.
An old expression, to be found in Plautus, Pliny, etc.
A woman considered the most skilled or prominent in a particular field of vice
A comical or eccentric fellow.
The chief of a gang of thieves or gypsies.
An endless screw, used for raising water, etc., invented by Archimedes.
War steeds of Arcos, in Andalusia, very famous in Spanish ballads. See BARB.
This tragedy, first printed in 1592, was at one time attributed to Shakespeare; it is possibly the work of Thomas
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A thief who commits depredations upon kitchens and cellars.
Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, used by Guido d'Arezzo in the llth century for his hexachord, or scale of six notes. They are the first syllables of some words in the opening stanza of a hymn for St. John's Day (see DOH). Si, the seventh note, was not introduced till the "17th century.
A lamp with a circular wick, through which a current of air flows, to supply oxygen to the flame, and increase its brilliancy. Invented by Aime Argand, 1789.
To bandy words.—Scotch.
arse
A bottle.