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pariah
noun
any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided.
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Pariah 鈥渁 social outcast鈥� is at its core a term for a member of a low caste in the traditional cultures of the southern Indian subcontinent. The word was adapted from Tamil 辫补峁焌颈测补苍, literally meaning 鈥渄rummer鈥� because of that low caste鈥檚 hereditary duty. 笔补峁焌颈测补苍, in turn, derives from 辫补峁焌颈 鈥渄rum.鈥� While the majority of people from India speak an Indo-European language, such as Hindi and Bengali, the Dravidian family is predominant in southern India. Dravidian languages include Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada鈥攅ach spoken by tens of millions of people. Pariah was first recorded in English in the early 1600s.
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In February 1956, a Montgomery County grand jury indicted King and dozens of other boycott leaders for unlawful conspiracy. Gilmore was among those who testified at King鈥檚 trial .鈥� The testimony made Gilmore a hero to local Blacks, [John T.] Edge says. But 鈥渋n the white world she became a pariah.鈥�
Before his death, [D. H.] Lawrence was a pariah, living outside the herd and throwing bombs into it. After his death, he was reborn as a Byronic hero: W. H. Auden described the carloads of women who, having lurched across the Taos desert and up the Rocky Mountains, stood in reverence before a memorial chapel to Lawrence[.]
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Gramarye 鈥渙ccult learning鈥� is a doublet of grammar, and both derive via Old French gramaire and Latin gramatica from Ancient Greek 驳谤补尘尘补迟颈办岣� (迟茅肠丑苍脓) 鈥済rammatical (art),鈥� from 驳谤补尘尘补迟颈办贸蝉 鈥渒nowing one鈥檚 letters鈥� and earlier 驳谤谩尘尘补 鈥渓etter, something drawn; small weight.鈥� The story of how an ancient word for 鈥渓etter鈥� evolved into gramarye, grammar, and even glamour (via Scots) is full of semantic twists and turns. The sense 鈥渒nowledge of letters鈥� shifted to the broader definition of 鈥渢he study of how a language鈥檚 sentences are constructed,鈥� and this is the definition of grammar today. In the Middle Ages, because grammar was taught only among the upper classes, grammar became a symbol of general 鈥渉igher鈥� learning, which also included subjects such as astrology, magic, and the occult at the time. Glamour and gramarye are simply variants of grammar that kept this connection to magic, though glamour later shifted again to refer to enchantingly good looks. Gramarye was first recorded in English in the early 1300s.
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鈥淜now’st thou what thou look鈥檚t like, Sir Conrade, at this moment? Not like the politic and valiant Marquis of Montserrat鈥攏ot like him who would direct the Council of Princes, and determine the fate of empires鈥攂ut like a novice, who, stumbling upon a conjuration in his master’s book of gramarye, has raised the devil when he least thought of it, and now stands terrified at the spirit which appears before him.鈥�
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inculcate
verb (used with object)
to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly.
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Inculcate 鈥渢o implant by repeated statement or admonition鈥� derives from the Latin verb 颈苍肠耻濒肠腻谤别 鈥渢o trample, impress, stuff in,鈥� a combination of the preposition in 鈥渋n鈥� and the noun calx (stem calc-) 鈥渉eel,鈥� which is also the source of calcaneus, the bone found in the heel. Calx is easily confused with its unrelated homonym calx 鈥渓imestone,鈥� though descendants of both words are often found today in educational settings: while inculcate, from calx 鈥渉eel,鈥� can refer to a teaching style, derivatives of calx 鈥渓imestone鈥� include chalk and, through a diminutive form meaning 鈥渟mall stone,鈥� calculus. Inculcate was first recorded in English in the mid-1500s.
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At an early age, when grammar school teachers were struggling to inculcate the lesson that effort was the main key to success in school, these future scribblers gave the obvious lie to this assertion. Where others read haltingly, they were plowing two grades ahead in the reading workbooks.
Jericho Brown considers how poets traverse the often long and chilly days, weeks, or months between poems. He begins by thinking about how the ideas of happiness (a short lived sensation) and joy (longer, deeper, and irrational) were inculcated in him through the church where he grew up.
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