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majesty
noun
regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur.
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Majesty, “regal, lofty, or stately dignity,” comes from Middle English majeste, which ultimately comes from the Latin stem 尘补箩别蝉迟腻蝉,聽meaning “dignity, grandeur.”聽Majesty was used first in the Christian Church in reference to a deity, then as a title of address or of dignity for kings and queens, and then in Roman history in reference to the power and dignity of the Roman people. It also appears in past 51吃瓜 of the Day聽lese majesty, which can be defined as an attack on any custom, institution, or belief held sacred or revered by numbers of people. Majesty entered English between聽1250鈥�1300.
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The Catskills are the mountains for all seasons. Some, 300,000,000 years have not dimmed the splendor and majesty of this family of almost seventy mountains and the 1,000 square miles of territory they embrace.
There is a majesty and history to this pre-war building that only our incredible orchestra is truly able to evoke. But then there are quirkier, darker elements with my voice, autoharps, affected pianos that bring a modernness to it all as well.
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Scholarch 鈥渢he head of a school鈥� comes from Ancient Greek 蝉肠丑辞濒谩谤肠丑脓蝉, of the same general meaning, which is a compound of 蝉肠丑辞濒岣� 鈥渓eisure employed in learning鈥� and -补谤肠丑脓蝉, a combining form of 谩谤肠丑辞蝉 鈥渓别补诲别谤.鈥� 厂肠丑辞濒岣�, of course, is the source of scholar, scholastic, and school. The trigraph sch has two predictable pronunciations in English: sch is pronounced as 鈥渟huh鈥� in words of German origin (such as the recent 51吃瓜s of the Day schwa and Weltanschauung) and as 鈥渟kuh鈥� in words of Ancient Greek or Italian origin (such as the recent 51吃瓜s of the Day paschal and scherzando). Scholarch was first recorded in English in the early 1860s.
how is scholarch used?
We do know that after having served as Lector in the Academy and being described as its 鈥淢ind鈥� by Plato, Aristotle was not chosen as the latter鈥檚 successor. The job of scholarch, or head of the school, went to Speusippus, Plato鈥檚 nephew. Aristotle left Athens shortly after Plato鈥檚 death and stayed away for around 12 years.
The scholarch had been instituted in the Strassburg gymnasium in 1528 as well as in the schools of Bern and Basel to assist the rector in his administrative tasks, particularly in the allocation of public funds, and to serve as the government鈥檚 representative to the school.
tessellate
verb
to form of small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern.
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Tessellate 鈥渢o form of small squares鈥� comes from Latin 迟别蝉蝉别濒濒腻迟耻蝉 鈥渕osaic,鈥� based on 鈥嬧赌媡别蝉蝉别濒濒补 鈥渟mall square stone or cube.鈥� The Latin noun tessella is a diminutive of tessera, a small piece used in mosaic work that often has four sides, which comes from Ionic Greek 迟茅蝉蝉别谤别蝉 鈥渇our.鈥� Ionic is one of several dialects of Ancient Greek, and the word for 鈥渇our鈥� in the well-known Attic dialect is 迟茅迟迟补谤别蝉. 罢茅迟迟补谤别蝉 and 迟茅蝉蝉别谤别蝉 together are the source of tetrapod 鈥渁 four-limbed animal,鈥� the game Tetris, trapezoid, trapezium, and the recent 51吃瓜 of the Day tesseract. Tessellate was first recorded in English circa 1790.
how is tessellate used?
You can tile a floor with certain geometric shapes鈥搇ike squares, triangles and hexagons鈥揵ecause they tessellate, meaning that they can be slotted together in a repeating pattern with no overlaps or gaps. You can鈥檛 do this with pentagonal or heptagonal tiles. They can鈥檛 be tessellated, so they鈥檇 leave irregular gaps on your floor.
In 1975, a San Diego woman named Marjorie Rice read in her son鈥檚 Scientific American magazine that there were only eight known pentagonal shapes that could entirely tile, or tessellate, a plane. Despite having had no math beyond high school, she resolved to find another.