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embosom
verb (used with object)
to cherish; foster.
More about embosom
The verb embosom 鈥渢o cherish, foster,鈥� is a compound formed from the prefix em– meaning 鈥渢o make (someone or something) be in (a place or condition),鈥� a borrowing from Old French, from Latin in-, and the noun bosom (the variant imbosom is formed directly from the Latin prefix in-). Bosom comes from Old English 产贸蝉尘 and has certain relatives only within Germanic, e.g., Old Frisian 产贸蝉尘, Old Saxon 产贸蝉辞尘, Old High German buosam, German Busen. The verb is poetic and rare, first appearing in Edmund Spenser鈥檚 Faerie Queene (1590).
how is embosom used?
The more thoroughly she is recognized in any University, and made to聽embosom the minds trained in it, interpenetrating with her Divine force all resources of Science, the more will she make that, in no common-place sense but truly, royally, the cherished mother of its students.
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
rarefied
adjective
extremely high or elevated; lofty; exalted: the rarefied atmosphere of a scholarly symposium.
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The adjective rarefied 鈥渆levated, lofty, exalted,鈥� only first appears in this sense in English in the second half of the 17th century. In origin, rarefied is the past participle of the Middle English verb rarefien 鈥渢o reduce the density of, thin, soften,鈥� first recorded at the end of the 14th century. Rarefien comes from Old French rarefier, from Medieval Latin 谤腻谤脓蹿颈肠腻谤别, from Latin 谤腻谤脓蹿补肠别谤别 鈥渢o make less solid, rarefy,鈥� a Latin technical term occurring first and only in Lucretius鈥檚 D膿 R膿rum N膩t奴r膩, a long Epicurean didactic poem aimed at freeing human beings from the scourge of superstition, religion, and the fear of death.
how is rarefied used?
The country gentry of old time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below.
In his 30s, breathing rarefied air, Mr. Coppola made two decisions that changed his career鈥檚 trajectory.
More about chirography
Chirography, an expensive word for 鈥渉andwriting, penmanship,鈥� comes from Greek 肠丑别颈谤辞驳补辫丑铆补 鈥渨ritten report, testimony in writing.鈥� The first element, cheiro-, is a combining form of the noun 肠丑别铆谤 鈥渉and,鈥� which has many dialect forms (肠丑茅谤蝉, 肠丑岣梤, 肠丑茅谤谤-). 颁丑别铆谤 comes from the uncommon Proto-Indo-European root ghesor-, ghesr– 鈥渉and,鈥� the source of Hittite kessar, Armenian 箩别峁�-, and Tocharian tsar, all meaning 鈥渉and.鈥� The combining form –graphy, naturalized in English, is a derivative of the verb 驳谤谩辫丑别颈苍 鈥渢o write,鈥� from a Proto-Indo-European root ghrebh-, ghrobh– 鈥渢o scratch, dig, bury,鈥� the source of English grave (burial place), grub (to dig), and groove. Chirography entered English in the 17th century.
how is chirography used?
Miss Kate S. Chittenden’s hand is bold, fearless, and masculine, and there are decided indications that her temperament resembles her chirography in these respects.
鈥淭hree hours of hand-shaking is not calculated to improve a man鈥檚 chirography,鈥� he [Lincoln] said later that evening.