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11German Literature — • History starting with the pre Christian period to 800 A.D Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. German Literature German Literature …
12Euphuism — , GONGORISM Euphuism is an artificial literary style, popular in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. It derived its name from the name of the hero of two prose romances by John Lyly (1554 1606), Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1579) and his… …
13Bombast — Bom bast (b[o^]m b[.a]st or b[u^]m b[.a]st; 277), n. [OF. bombace cotton, LL. bombax cotton, bombasium a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See {Bombazine}.] 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A candle… …
14Fustian — Fus tian, n. [OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F. futaine, It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fust[=a]t, i. e., Cairo, where it was made.] 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and… …
15Evagrius Scholasticus — (536/537 after 594), an ecclesiastical historian, who wrote six books, covering a period of 163 years, from the Second Council of Ephesus in 431 to the 12th year of the emperor Maurice (594).He was born at Epiphania (Homs) in Coele Syria in… …
16List of English words of Persian origin — As Indo European languages, English and Persian have many words of common Proto Indo European origin, and many of these cognate words often have similar forms. Examples of these include: English (Mother) and Persian (Madar), English (Father) and… …
17The Hotel Inspectors — Infobox Television episode Title = The Hotel Inspectors Series = Fawlty Towers Caption = Season = 1 Episode = 4 Airdate = 10 October 1975 Production = Writer = John Cleese Connie Booth Director = John Howard Davies Guests = Bernard Cribbins… …
18Goscelin — (sometimes called Gotselin in his manuscripts was a Benedictine biographical writer who died about 1099. He was born in the north of France and became a monk of St. Bertin s at Omer. Hermann, Bishop of Salisbury, brought him to England, but the… …
19Goscelin — • Benedictine biographical writer (d. 1099) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Goscelin Goscelin † …
20bombast — n. Fustian, rodomontade, rant, altiloquence, magniloquence, sesquipedalianism, grandiloquence, sesquipedalia verba, turgid talk, inflated style, swelling or pompous phraseology …
