Its original meaning was a resident of a certain wealthy city; now it means one who indulges in luxury
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The Internet Classics Archive | Politics by Aristotle  It is not like a military alliance The usefulness of the latter depends upon its ... Hence it is evident that a city is not by nature one in that sense which some ... for the community to have the greatest degree of unity, this unity is by no means proved ..... There is another point: Should not the amount of property be defined in some...
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The Internet Classics Archive | The Republic by Plato  We mean our guardians to be true saviours and not the destroyers of the State, ... Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the .... and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; .... Now that our city has been made habitable, light a candle and search, and get...
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J! Archive - List Final Jeopardy! clues - Season 21  Jul 22, 2005 ... ... 2005-05-04, VOCABULARY: Its original meaning was a resident of a certain wealthy city; now it means one who indulges in luxury sybarite.
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Plato: The Republic | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy  The Analogy of the City and the Soul; Plato's Defense of Justice; References and ... Socrates requires clarification of the definition: does it mean that justice is what the ... Each human has certain natural abilities (370a) and doing only the single job one is ... To keep the guardians doing only their job, Socrates argues that the...
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Pericles' Funeral Oration - Internet History Sourcebooks  In the funeral procession cypress coffins are borne in cars, one for each tribe; the bones ... The dead are laid in the public sepulchre in the Beautiful suburb of the city, ... added to their inheritance the empire which we now possess, and spared no ... wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of...
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1855, from celebrate + -ory. celebrity (n.) - Online Etymology Dictionary  1610s, "state of celibacy" (especially as mandated to clergy in the Catholic church) ... The adjective meaning "unmarried, sworn to remain single" is recorded from 1825. ... in compounds, "having cells" (of a certain number or type), from late 18c., .... "a cloister brother," from coenobium "a convent," from Greek koinobion "life in...
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New York City, Tenement Life - Maggie Blanck  The word evolved into a description of a large crowded apartment building ... It wasn't until the Tenement act of 1901 that lighting was required in halls. ... Many of the larger tenements had a housekeeper, often a widow, who received free rent in ..... "This is one of the oldest houses in New York, having been built by a Dutch...
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lagniappe | Dictionary of American Regional English  A small gratuity or bonus included with a purchase; by ext, anything extra thrown ... above my persimmon, and right smart lanyope too, as them creole darkies say. ... (Boston) 450 LA, We picked up one excellent worda word worth travelling to ... A trifling gift presented to a customer by a merchant, or, by extension, any kind...
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Identity and socio-economic mobility in Venetian Crete: the evolution ...  Keywords: Venice; Crete; Rethymno (Rettimo); town of Candia; cittadini ... later gained the title of the so-called Venetian nobility (nobilta` veneta), .... Orthodox population, the position could not have been particularly well-paid, ... Like many other citizens of the period, he may have derived some additional .... al presente).
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The Big Apple: Unwashed ("the great unwashed") - Barry Popik  Oct 14, 2011 ... Hoi polloi (Ancient Greek:  ), an expression meaning the many, or in the strictest sense, ... Greek, is used in English to denote the masses or the people, usually in a derogatory sense. ... 1849 Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxx. ... The unwashed, the great unwashed, the lower class of people.
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Krakw - In Your Pocket  that much better than Gothic churches and Renaissance palaces, royal feasting ...... from borrowing their girlfriend's car, or renting one for that matter).
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Tycoon dictionary definition | tycoon defined  a title applied by foreigners to the former shogun of Japan; a wealthy and powerful ... A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.
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Luke 6:24 Commentaries: "But woe to you who are rich, for you are ...  The verb is the same as in they have their reward, in Matthew 6:2; Matthew 6:5. ... on the mount; there our Lord pronounced blessings only, here he denounces curses; ... an expression which no one can understand otherwise than as a declaration of the ... all the blessed are enlightened, and made transcendently happy.
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Urban Dictionary: Mangalomania  It's a Greek word ,"mangalo" meaning "very large", "great", or "exaggerated" and ... by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, genius, or omnipotence - often...
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Passages from the American Notebooks, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1883  Oct 23, 1999 ... Visitors from Boston thronging the house,--some standing at the bar, watching ... No house in the city could have reared its roof so high as the roots of that .... sisterhood of them,--the rich and the proud finding themselves in the same ..... worthier persons are unknown by the majority of their fellow-citizens.
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epicurean - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com  ... refers to a devotion to pleasure or refined, sensuous enjoyment, especially of good food and drink. ... Thus the "good life" was one filled with pleasure and the avoidance of pain. ... has a whole host of great synonyms, including luxurious, voluptuous, hedonistic, and, as a noun, bon vivant. ... a person who enjoys sensuality.
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inhabitant - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com  The old man who lives in the scary house down the street is its inhabitant, and the skunk that built a nest under your ... n a person who inhabits a particular place.
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The Man Who Became Rich through a Dream: Folktales of Type 1645  Quoth the woman, "My life, husband, speak not to our king now, so that all of them ... And the king wondered and said, "Go, poor man, God Most High has given it thee, .... form or picture in most of the old glass windows, taverns, and alehouses of .... remaining property in Ayrshire of the noble family who take their title from it.
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23. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Coveting -- and a ...  May 13, 2004 ... Coveting is a desire, a motivation so strong that the one who covets ... You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments (Prov. .... The Ten Commandments began with a prohibition of idolatry, and ... But godliness actually is a means of great gain, when accompanied by contentment...
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Fancier | Define Fancier at Dictionary.com  Fancier definition, a person having a liking for or interest in something; ... Her belief that she can sing is a mere fancy. 5. a caprice; whim; vagary: ... to take a fancy to walking barefoot in the streets. 7. ... I fancy you are my new neighbor. .... (music) Also called fantasy, fantasia. a composition for solo lute, keyboard, etc, current...
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Tycoon - - how to be tycoon - Willing To Be  A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate. 2. Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun. [Japanese taikun, title of a shogun, of Chinese origin.] Word History: It has been claimed that in today's global economy some ... industry leaders at times being applied to figures like J. P. Morgan, who may...