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fascicle
noun
a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
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The noun fascicle 鈥渁 bunch, bundle鈥� has always been a technical term, restricted to botany and anatomy. Even in its publishing sense, 鈥渁 section of a book or set of books published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes,鈥� fascicle is a technical term. Fascicle comes from Latin fasciculus (also the source of fascicule) 鈥渁 small bundle, packet, parcel,鈥� a diminutive of the noun fascis 鈥渁 bundle (e.g., of sticks, wood, books). The 蹿补蝉肠脓蝉, the plural of fascis, were the bundle of rods about five feet long, bound by red leather bands around an ax that in Republican times was used as an instrument of execution. The 蹿补蝉肠脓蝉 were the primary visible symbol of a higher Roman magistrate鈥檚 power and authority. They were carried by lictors: twelve 蹿补蝉肠脓蝉 for consuls and proconsuls (and for kings in the regal period); six 蹿补蝉肠脓蝉 for praetors and Masters of the Horse; and twenty-four 蹿补蝉肠脓蝉 for dictators. Fascis or 蹿补蝉肠脓蝉 becomes fascio in Italian, meaning 鈥渂undle of sticks.鈥� The Roman 蹿补蝉肠脓蝉 were adopted as the symbol of the Partito Nazionale Fascista (鈥淣ational Fascist Party鈥�) organized by Benito Mussolini in 1919, the same year as the appearance of the English noun fascists. Fascicle entered English in the 17th century.
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… she gathered her poems into forty homemade books, known as 鈥�fascicles,鈥� by folding single sheets of blank paper in half to form four consecutive pages ….
… he knew what he sought, and found exactly that, the fascicles dwindling like melting ice-shards, verso words showing through ….
cat's-paw
noun
a person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.
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In English cat’s-paw originally meant 鈥渁 person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.鈥� The term comes from a Le Singe et le Chat, 鈥淭he Monkey and the Cat,鈥� a fable by Jean de La Fontaine (1621鈥�1695), the French poet and collector of fairy tales, in which a monkey persuades a cat to pull chestnuts out of hot coals that the chestnuts are roasting in and promises to share the chestnuts with the cat. The cat scoops the chestnuts one by one out of the coals, burning his paw in the process, while the monkey eats up the chestnuts. A maid enters the room, stopping all the action, and the cat gets nothing for its pains. Both nautical senses, 鈥渁 light breeze on the surface of the water鈥� and “a kind of knot made in the bight of a rope,鈥� date from the second half of the 18th century. Cat’s-paw entered English in the second half of the 17th century.
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I believe these people are simply using you as a cats-paw.
… we should not take these fifty-one painters and sculptors … too seriously. In a certain sense they are mere cat’s-paws.
尘补苍辩耻茅
adjective
having failed, missed, or fallen short, especially because of circumstances or a defect of character; unsuccessful; unfulfilled or frustrated (usually used postpositively): a poet 尘补苍辩耻茅 who never produced a single book of verse.
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Everything about the adjective 尘补苍辩耻茅 is French, including its spelling and syntax (尘补苍辩耻茅 follows its noun, that is, a novelist 尘补苍辩耻茅, not a 尘补苍辩耻茅 novelist). 惭补苍辩耻茅 is the French past participle of manquer 鈥渢o lack, be short of,鈥� a borrowing from Old Italian mancare (early 14th century). Mancare comes from the Latin adjective mancus 鈥渉aving a useless hand, maimed, feeble, powerless,鈥� a derivative of the noun manus 鈥渉补苍诲.鈥� 惭补苍辩耻茅 entered English in the second half of the 18th century.
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I got an e-mail from a fellow-scholar who accused me of being an intellectual 尘补苍辩耻茅.
At first, I planned to take a degree in psychiatry as many 尘补苍辩耻茅 talents do; but I was even more 尘补苍辩耻茅 than that …