51吃瓜 of the Day
proselyte
noun
a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
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The English noun proselyte comes via Old French and Late Latin 辫谤辞蝉脓濒测迟耻蝉 鈥渟ojourner, foreigner, stranger, a convert from paganism to Judaism.鈥� 笔谤辞蝉脓濒测迟耻蝉 first occurs in the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century a.d. 笔谤辞蝉脓濒测迟耻蝉 comes from Greek 辫谤辞蝉岣条测迟辞蝉 鈥渙ne who has arrived, stranger, sojourner.鈥� 笔谤辞蝉岣条测迟辞蝉 and its kindred terms occur in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible dating from the 3rd century b.c.) and the Greek New Testament. 笔谤辞蝉岣条测迟辞蝉 is equivalent to an unrecorded 辫谤辞蝉岣条测迟丑辞蝉, a derivative of the verb 辫谤辞蝉茅谤肠丑别蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o come forward, go, approach.鈥� Proselyte entered English in the 14th century.
how is proselyte used?
… I began to believe that if he did not make a proselyte of me, I should certainly make one of him ….
Still, proselytes often find that being Paleo quickly becomes a round-the-clock duty.
overmorrow
noun
the day after tomorrow: I鈥檝e heard that tomorrow and overmorrow may bring exceptionally high waves.
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Overmorrow had a brief history, first recorded in the first half of the 16th century and lasting into the second half of that same century. The rare word occurred in the phrase 鈥渢oday, tomorrow, and overmorrow.鈥�
how is overmorrow used?
It comes round on the overmorrow鈥� / Then why we wake we know aright.
“Do ye stop in tha cove over ‘morrow, Ralph?” she asked, with a sanguine intonation.
self-possessed
adjective
having or showing control of one's feelings, behavior, etc.; composed; poised.
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The adjective self-possessed, which entered English in the mid-18th century, is a derivative of the earlier noun self-possession, which appeared a hundred years earlier.
how is self-possessed used?
There was an occasional copied page of her diary in which she appeared contented, and self-possessed: autonomous in a way I could not imagine for myself.
Unburdening himself his coat, he was not self-possessed enough to find in his pocket the scroll of resolutions which every one saw protruding from it …